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Re: Does marking an email as Junk in email clients get the email reported to VM?
@coenoby "The act of flagging an email as spam, whether you do it in a third party app or via VM webmail does not result in that email being flagged to the wider world as being spam" Makes sense - stops malicious activities by ne'er-do-wells, marking genuine items to cause domains to be blocked. And I realise I don't really want to get domains blocklisted; I was hoping there was a way of - if you like - providing the spam filters with learning material from which they could look improve their algorithms. Looking at all the abundance of crap currently being allowed through with multiple-case subjects and 'w0n' or 'have_w0n' or similar in the body, along with multiple non-secure links to php pages on domains unrelated to the purported sender, it seems fairly obvious to the human eye, yet they still persist. In numbers. Yup, you're right about the VM phishing address - only interested in mail purporting to be from VM. Perhaps the government could make mail providers more responsible for spam sent from their servers... that might help. But, as it stands, us minnows who want to help seem to be unable to. Thanks to those who took time to read and respond.1.8KViews0likes1CommentRe: Does marking an email as Junk in email clients get the email reported to VM?
用心棒 wrote: Moving a message from or to Spam folder does not affect future handling of the same or similar messages as stated here: ⋮ Marking an email or sender as spam If you mark a specific email as spam or not spam, the filter will move that email to the relevant folder. However, your account won’t remember to filter out future messages from that sender. ⋮ [source: How to stop spam e-mails | Virgin Media Help] An issue with creating a filter rule to forward such messages to a reporting email address (for example, phishing@virginmedia.com) is the risk of submitting multiple reports for the same message; also filter rules do not run retrospectively so a new message would have to match the rule before submission would occur I think I meant creating some VB or a macro to add sender details to Outlook's block list and forward the emails to the report addresses, for selected emails in my Outlook inbox, then move them to the Spam folder - but there seems little point in doing the latter if it is just acting as a auto-clearing dumping ground and nothing further is done with it server-side... Outlook appears to have the enhanced option of adding senders to block lists when marking an item as Junk, but - again - that's just a after-being-handled-by-VM-servers type thing I guess I'm curious about how the 'Virgin Media Mail state-of-the-art technology' can be assisted, where it fails to identify items that are relatively obvious to the human eye, as per my examples.1.9KViews0likes3CommentsDoes marking an email as Junk in email clients get the email reported to VM?
Possibly a general query regarding how emails are processed by VM spam filters... Let's say I get an email purporting to be from Temu, or advising I have won a 170 piece Stanley Tool Set and it goes straight to my inbox, yet to be identified as Spam or suspicious. If I mark it as spam whilst in the web interface of my browser, I suspect it gets flagged as such to the mail detection services used by VM. Would this also be the case if I just dragged it into the Spam folder? If so, is it the act of placing it there that flags it, or the existence of the email in the Spam folder? The reason I ask is because I rarely use webmail, but instead use Outlook. When in Outlook, I can mark it as Junk and the sender's email address is added to Outlook's block list and it gets moved to the Junk/Spam folder anyway - but I'm well aware that email addresses - and even domains - are not the only thing that Spam filters check to determine the legitimacy of an email and I'd like to assist the learning processes used by VM's Spam algorithms/AI/filters to enable better detection. As they say... every little helps! If all I'm doing instead is blocking email addresses/domains in my email client, it's a bit of a selfish act and only 'protecting' my Inbox after things have been through VM's filters and VM doesn't learn anything from this. But if the 'appearance' of an email in the Spam folder highlights the email for a potential learning point, all is well and good. Otherwise, I guess I could just create a rule that forwards emails to both report@phishing.gov.uk and phishing@virginmedia.com and this could achieve a similar result?2KViews0likes5Comments