Put back the block on only receiving email from those people in my address book.
Put back the option to only receive email from those people in my address book Please.
Steve B.
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Thank you for sharing your feedback, we’ll send it over to the Product Team and hope to have it implemented in the future.
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Bk Sabet
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can i set my aol email to only receive email from my contact list ?
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Bk Sabet
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can i set my aol email to only receive email from my contact list ?
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Anonymous
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Well, the programmers must be too STUPID to do that - it's only been almost 15 months since this request was posted.
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Anonymous
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I have been with AOL since 1994, and have now had enough. AOL deliberately removed the option to have only emails from contacts in the address book. AOL has absolutely NO intention of restoring the original email settings. I am being bombarded with spam and ****. The spam blocker doesn't work.
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Toni
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I have gotten email (spam) in my friend's name, several times. I told her to send in a complaint, too.This is my friend's name, but a spam email address. . Not always the same spam addess, that comes through....this came today: Joan Martin (jseymour@mhtc.net) . Please don't allow unless it's in my address book. and can you only put email addresses in my book when I put them there? Do not do them automatically because I get all kinds of "****" that I have to delete...thank you!
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SPAM hater
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Already deleted one secondary AOL email account today (good riddance as there was a bunch of spam just since yesterday). There is a 30 day wait period to get rid of the master screen name (https://help.aol.com/articles/close-your-account) and I can't wait to do that and be done with AOL.
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Anonymous
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Put AOL back as it used to be or bye bye )-:
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Ann C
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I feel the sameway. All day spam emails. I keep trying to stop it and it continues everyday.
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SPAM hater
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My last update as I'll shortly be getting rid of the AOL account. Have successfully rotated all my contacts (will keep the AOL for a month or so in case of any stragglers) to another email provider. So much better. Since I put a permanent away message a couple of months ago that indicates AOL spam controls are not adequate and in process of moving my contacts and important historical saved emails my spam folder has decreased from just under 1,000 to just under 200. It was growing each day prior to that message. I'd never go back to AOL. Moving the contacts was easy. Getting things changed on sign-ups to websites I care about was a drop more of a pain as one tends to not think of a few. At this point, I'm fairly confident I have the stuff that I need and I'm looking forward to not having all the issues any longer (have had AOL service go out here or there and other issues - not alone with AOL's problems - e.g. - https://www.bbb.org/us/va/dulles/profile/internet-service/oath-0241-2087/complaints)
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Slim
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I have the choice to flag this idea as inappropriate.
Wow if I could only flag AOLs advertising as inappropriate. -
SPAM hater
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I've now moved all my contacts and important emails saved from the two AOL accounts and will keep them for a few months (AOL Accounts have an away message that was suggested here letting them know about the inadequacies of SPAM controls) just in case there is a straggler or two. I've changed all my sign-ups at the various sites (and keeping the AOL for a few months just in case I left something out). Much better. I had to help someone get email on their phone the other day who changed passwords due to a security breach on some website. They had Yahoo mail (and Yahoo, AOL and Verizon email is now under the Oath company so they are probably all bad) and had about 800 spams message over the last 30 days (as they drop off after 30 days. Now that all that is changed via AOL forcing me, I'm glad (and of course not going back under any circumstances). Don't waste your time has it has been over a year without a response from AOL (and if that is how they value you and you still want to stick with them - good luck). Bite the bullet and just do it - e.g. gmail, outlook or whatever doesn't involve this horrible company.
To the person who asked about facebook (I don't do facebook but always threaten to start a website called faceliftbook.com for people my age), that is not an email issue. It is your facebook settings. Go to the downward arrow on the upper right and drop down to settings. On the left after clicking settings, there will be something that says notifications. Look at those.
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Kevin Pond
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I agree completely. AOL's response was September 13, 2018, over a year ago.
Where is AOL on this matter, now over a year latter?
If no movement by AOL my long time association with this company will soon be over.
AOL: your response??? -
Richard Brunskill
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I am recieveing face book notifications on my email which l do not want.Could you help me in this.Thankyou
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Charles
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Bring back the option of "only allow emails for email addresses I specify." Please do it now!
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Anonymous commented
getting too many spam emails. Settings to stop spam not working
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pat
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People keep complaining about having to individually block all of the spam they receive. Well, I wish doing that was an option because I have blocked so many F'in "InstaGirl *** Sh*t yet they keep coming. AOL, Verizon or whoever is running this sorry excuse for a ISP ought to be ashamed. They are literally getting paid to allow spammers to bombard people with vulgar, obscene emails. SMDH PATHETIC!!!
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SPAM hater
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I've moved my contacts to a new email and will just keep AOL for some historical items for a while longer. My permanent away message says "Due to a lesser ability to limit SPAM on AOL, all contacts have been moved to a new email. This account is no longer monitored and will be kept for some historical items until the early part of 2020 before being deleted." AOL is simply not usable at this point. I've taken the time to move saved emails to the new (non) AOL account and it is their loss. Will not be back.
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AOL is unfixable
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If one has not used the maximum number of filters (see September 10 comment), one can set up a filter for a particular word for 'the subject contains.' Your choice may be limited to putting it under another folder (e.g. deleted). Stopping it is another story. Finally finished moving all my contacts fom AOL and have a permanent away message that indicates the AOL account will only be monitored infrequently for a short time and just kept for historical stuff. Much better now, That truly is the only way to fix it (I paid my exterminating service by phone the other day and they told me they discontinued their AOL account as well since there were hundreds of SPAM emails). The only real way to fix this is just move your contacts to another provider. If you need AOL for historical emails for a short period of time, put an away message in to let any stragglers know that you don't use the email mail any longer. When AOL sends you one of their official emails, they can get the message too.
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thomas deaton
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i keep receiving unwanted mail.How to improve my *** life ect. how do i stop this?
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Anonymous
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One really can't block a person (that's the problem as most here would be happy if AOL would allow you to accept people in your address book only). You can block an email address (up to 1,000) and put in filters (e.g. subject contains, from contains, etc.) but those are limited to 50. To block an email address one would go to options in the upper right, then to spam settings, specify the email address, hit the plus sign to add it and then the save settings. If one wants to create a filter then go to options, then filter settings, and then create the filter. I already have the maximum number of filters and blocked email addresses and that's why I've rotated my personal contacts to another provider. In the last 30 days (spam drops off after that), I now have over 900 spam emails and the number just grows. Blocking an email address will just likely result in spammers using another. That's why the only choice is to move everything to another provider.