Restore the old spam settings. Now we only have one setting.
First you took away stationery and vast choice of fonts, emojis, etc. Then you changed how mail is set up (from new, old, sent, spam, deleted mail to current style) and the Spam settings from numerous choices to only one (blocked). it seems the longer we continue to PAY for AOL Gold, the less we are getting for our money. I see by the Feedback that I'm far from alone in feeling AOL Gold does not seem "golden" to your PAYING customers.
Hey,
Wanted to let you all know that you now have the ability to block mail from unwanted senders. Please click the link here to learn more: https://help.aol.com/articles/keep-your-inbox-clean-by-blocking-unwanted-mail-in-aol-desktop-gold
Sincerely,
AOL Product Support
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servicestinks commented
Thanks. I've been looking for alternatives to AOL for email Maybe Google is a reasonable alternative.
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JIM ULANOWSKI commented
same here. I get 30 to 40 spams emails all with the same look but they change one part on each one so blocking doesnt seem to work. I have also put in the same part to block and it still gets through. Very annoying and everything runs so so slow. I would change but I have had my email forever and its tied to everything. GET BETTER AOL!
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servicestinks commented
OK
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servicestinks commented
Does anyone recommend a different email provider that deals with spam more effectively? My phone does a far better job of blocking spam phone calls and texts.
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servicestinks commented
I have maxed out the number of email addresses to be blocked. I have check the spam control that blocks all email not in my address book. I have an email address I received daily that is in my address book, but will not come to my inbox unless I turn off the spam control that only allows mail that is in my address book. So I am back to receiving dozens of spam email every day. AOL does nothing, leading me to believe that AOL has no intention of dealing with reducing spam email. Does anyone want to get email from Unknownsender@unknownsender.com? They won't even block that.
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DONALD BLOSSER commented
Stop all spam e-mails when sent to the block list permanantly
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a cee commented
Everytime I look in the spam folder for my deleted mail there are 1,000 2,000 3,000 emails and all of those are automated email sent out by Bots and it's very annoying very frustrating when I have to Cipher through that BS to find my stuff of something I might have missed something that's important that someone's letting me know and it gets shoved over into that mess and so I'm ciphering through thousands of freaking emails in this so-called spam folder
The answer is not making a spam folder to get rid of the spam because my stuff gets caught up in all that ****
What you ought to do is get rid of the automated emails and by doing that you can have them THE SENDER OF THE EMAIL enter a code when emailing someone USING THE AOL EMAIL it can be a 3-digit number you can do it automatic email back saying that you must enter a 3 digit code for THE SENDER Email to be sent through to the AOL user that would take care of it right there
And I'm surprised that you all had and done that because it's very frustrating and very annoying having to Cipher to hundreds of thousands of emails to find the email that you might need to read
And I said this over and over again you say block certain words will they come up with other words it just goes back and forth surely you can do better than what you're doing your charging people to use the service you're charging people to use the software
It with my Google account I nearly don't have as much junk coming through and that's free absolutely free you guys are going to have to do much better than what you're doing is very shameful that you're just taking people's money and yet they have to look at these stupid ADS that they don't want to see and be subject to thousands of BOT MAILS which can be avoided
You are really need to get your acts together and stop this **** from coming to people's emails everything you seem to think of does not work and it only gets worse you have to do this automated thing to where the sender receives a notice that their mail will not go through unless they enter a three digit code to complete the transaction and that'll solve it right there unless you like all that BS coming to people's emails and that's very annoying very frustrating🙄
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ROB HUMMEL commented
either let us use ***'s or ????'s to block spam from the same sender
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MARIE DENNING commented
Spam blocking needs to have a "Contains the phrase" option. Spammers are adding suffixes to domain names so you can't block them all. I get hundreds of these a week, all with slight changes to the domain name, such as 124418747@addtocartnow-653zr.co.uk, 124418747@addtocartnow-22327.co.uk, 124418747@addtocartnow-5t5g8.co.uk. I got 42 of these in one day!
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michael elder commented
new idea buy a program that actually works or hire better help
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SHIRLEY JONES commented
Most of my spam comes from 2 or 3 places. They change the beginning words with different stuff....but the ending words (domain) are all the same. Please come up with a SPAM CONTROL where we can just put the domain in there to stop them from entering my emails.
Example:
1234@marksmarket.com
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DANIEL TERRY commented
I'm getting over 100 spam emails everyday. This has to stop or I will be leaving AOL!
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MARIANNE SPRINGER commented
Instead of having to enter a full email address to block in spam filter. Should allow use of key words or number to block for spam. A lot of spams have same initial aspect of address and then varied second part of address. If could block a key word or number series...would stop so much. Aware can put a filer in email...but that route doesn't allow to block completely, only allows to designate to a folder instead of being able to block completely.
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Doyce Dugan commented
Should be wild card * to replace the before the lincon.
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Doyce Dugan commented
Blocked mail needs to be able not only to block the original send but also the regenerated spam with just slightly changing the address. Example is ABC@85lincon.com to ABC@86lincon.com. The option that would work could be *@*lincon.com that you could manually enter.
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Penny Taylor commented
There is way too much spam getting in my mailbox. How can this be eliminated? Thank you
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Dan Shier commented
Has AOL's SPAM filtering stopped? I've been receiving copious amounts of SPAM both in my Inbox and in my SPAM folder of late. Today alone, at this writing, there are 78 SPAM emails in the last 24 hours. I've taken to adding them to my blocked emails list, but it's just too overwhelming. I've been an AOL subscriber for decades and it's never been this bad. What's going on?
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servicestinks commented
I have set things so that I only get mail from those in my address book. Yet, I have received one mail that was not in my address book and I no receive mail I used to get daily from an address that is in my address book. What gives? My phone has a more efficient process for receiving calls and blocking calls than AOL has for spam email
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PHILIP W SOULE commented
Help. I am deleting 20-50 SPAM emails a day. As a customer, I do not pay a monthly subscription to help you delete SPAM. AOL has done better in the past regarding bad email's. Especially the same addresses being delivered over & over to our mailboxes. Thanks and please help.
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RICHARD Smith commented
Seems they use multiple email addresses so blocking them doesn't work. At one time I could block emails that contain certain words, "renter", for instance but can't do that now. AOL should bring back that option.