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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Anonymous
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After 30 plus years with AOL, they STILL cant block email from . I get about 75-100 email solicitations every day,.on 5 of 7 of my email boxes. , And Im paying AOL every month!!!
Put back the block on only receiving email from those people in my address book.
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Anonymous
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Not getting email from certain contacts
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Anonymous
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NO F'ING KIDDING!! I've been getting an astronomical amount of spam from sooooooo many different addresses I'm not spending my time adding each one to your ridiculous SPAM control method. As someone else said... PUT BACK THE OPTION TO GET MAIL FROM ONLY THOSE IN THE ADDRESS LIST I'VE CREATED. WE KNOW YOU WONT BECAUSE YOU'LL LOSE $$$$ FROM ALLLLLLL OF THAT ANNOYING ADVERTISING!
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Anonymous
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please remove all emails or mesages from name WILSON GARY, GASTONER WILSON, WILSON HARLEY INMEDIATLEY PLEASE
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George
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I accept new emails that are sent by my people in my contact list only
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Anonymous
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Your spam filter used to send all mail from senders not in my contacts into the spam folder. This has been critical for me, as my address has been compromised and I get hundreds of spam letters daily. But now there doesn't seem to be any difference between my inbox and my spam folder, and I have to comb through 25-100 spam letters every time I check my mail, and some of it is really offensive. I've tried customizing my filter by marking letters as "spam" or "not spam", but it hasn't made a difference.
I can't continue to use AOL mail like this, as it is just too time consuming. I understand that I am really your product, not your customer, but I just see how there is any economic reason for Verison to have disabled this function, and I should think you would want to retain me as a user (and recipient of your advertising). I have to admit that I would have no reason to visit AOL's site ever if I don't use the e-mail.
This is just feedback, not a question, so I don't need a response. Thanks!
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SPAM hater
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I'm really surprised that people are still complaining vs. moving their contacts (it's easy as pie with many providers). I barely go into it now. I looked for the first time in a bit and what I had was 233 spam emails over the past month (my personal contacts have been moved) which went there with the available spam filters (although sometimes they don't got to the spam folder). I'm even more surprised that there are those who have elected to pay AOL. Why? If you want to give your money away, give it to a worthy charity. Also when I just logged on (AOL) my contacts where gone (happens from time to time). When to an old email to add a contact and then discarded the change and they came back. I just expect to monitor AOL sporadically over the next several months to see if I left out anyone who I want to get emails from and then I'm just going to use it for things I buy where an email is required and if I have to go into AOL a couple of times a year to delete things it's easy enough.
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Phil Robinson
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Block e mails from anyone not in our contacts list. Other providers do this and I heard AOL once did it. Most e mail is plain junk.
Allow us to sort e mails alphabetically rather than just by date.
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Idonthave A. Name
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Well this was a shock to log in to webmail and find I no longer have a list of ACCEPTABLE senders. The ONLY reason I've stuck with AOL all this time was BECAUSE of the variety of ways to sort email. I set my preferences here on webmail, then pop my email to Mozilla Thunderbird. Never logged into webmail except to add a new contact's email address. I've not been logged in for several month. AOL TRULY SUCKS NOW. And yeah...there's the filter thing. Same method as Yahoo has. It's time consuming and a pain **********.
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Really?
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You need to restore the email spam filters. The whole reason I continued to pay for AOL was your spam filters where I could weed out subject lines with **ck, If you are not providing service anymore. Why should I pay?
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Anonymous
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James, do u see what their telling you?? Always a brush-off to pacify someone! (we'll send it over to the product team). If 2 million of us were to stop paying AOL , they'd fix these things or go out of business! Mr C.
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SPAM hater
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There is no fix (limited number of fliters, etc) or effort that AOL is obviously willing to do. It is 9 months since the post from product support with not a single update. There is only one logical choice. That is to move personal contacts to another email provider. Did that months ago. Once every few weeks or so I take a quick look just in case I missed someone. What I get is about 90% spam and a few things I bought that I get promotions for and 95% of that gets filtered into the spam folder (and those things drop off after a month) and the handful I get I just delete. I put this away message on (that someone suggested) "Due to the new co. Oath which includes AOL and other brands, Spam controls have been decreased and Spam is the majority of what gets thru and easy to delete a few times/year, personal email contacts have been moved to a new acct & all others are deleted" Sometime in several months (to make sure I have not missed anyone), I'll either just delete my AOL account or just leave it for ordering things online so I don't pollute my other email provider. The AOL account is perfect for that.
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None
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Agreed.
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Anonymous
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I keep getting a message in the spam mail that says that I asked to cancel my aol account, and that if I do not respone it will be canceled. I did not request that so please do not cancel my account.
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Anonymous
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Why is the filter I can set for email addresses that I need to block now set at a maximum of only a mere 50 in my email settings? There did not used to be such a limit! Nearly everyone gets mail from more then 50 different addresses because spammers use at least 8 different ones a piece. By setting a limit, AOL is essentially forcing us to receive spam emails against our will so that they don't have to do any work!
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lbby
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Its so annoying getting mail from everyone imaginable. Don't want this also its a security issue.
Why should I be subject to dustbin e-mails your supposed to protect us from spam mails. Why take the choice off. Just discovered this platform for comments. -
[Deleted User]
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I really want to delete all emails from AOL. I was an added user to my roommates account when she first started with Verizon. Her name is ********************************* and my name is *********************. Please delete ********************* from any and all e-mails. Thank you.
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[Deleted User]
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Folks AOL will not fix nor change anything. Your only choice is to cancel your account and use something else. They do not even look at these posts anymore. It is sad but true!
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Anonymous
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How can I stop/Block sexually explicit emails from being posted in my spam Folder. These people are not friends and delete them all, but they keep appearing ! If I can' resolve this I will have to stop using AOL and delete my account ! HELP Please !
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Anonymous
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Why. I have two addresses. One open and one closed. Now my closed one is wide open since the list of acceptable recipients is no longer there or activated. What a travesty.