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TrimTheKing wrote:Bob
Don't forward the email, send a new email with the spam mail as an attachment, that will get around it. Unless of course the Government service needs it to be forwarded.
9fingers wrote:Not my area of expertise but would not that strip out the headers which inturn lose clues to the source?
Also not sure how to attach an email to another?
spb wrote:9fingers wrote:Not my area of expertise but would not that strip out the headers which inturn lose clues to the source?
Also not sure how to attach an email to another?
Other way around, usually - forwarding an email the normal way just writes a new email, from you, with the content of the previous one at the bottom. Attaching it saves the entire original mail, headers and all, into a file, then attaches that to the new one.
Most mail clients that I know of have a "Forward as attachment" option, usually just below the regular forward option; that'll do what you want in this case.
TrimTheKing wrote:Yep as spb says, forwarding the email as an attachment is the way to go as that keeps all the header info, without that it's fairly useless to them anyway, so I would have thought that's what they would have been telling people to do...
TrimTheKing wrote:Yep, read it but assumed you would just do the needful from the pc... If you don't have that account on the PC then yes, you're scuppered.
Blackswanwood wrote:Bob, from the screen shot I think you are using the Apple mail app linked to your Hotmail account?
If so it may be worth downloading the Outlook app from the AppStore and using that instead. You can then just click on the e-mail, open the menu and use the report junk function.
I hope that helps but if not apologies if I have misunderstood your issue.
AndyT wrote:Bob, you said
The hotmail account is used specifically with websites that want registration when I don’t want to register so a vast proportion is unwanted anyway.
A simpler option might be to use a "disposable" email for registration, from tempinbox.com or similar.
9fingers wrote:Blackswanwood wrote:Bob, from the screen shot I think you are using the Apple mail app linked to your Hotmail account?
If so it may be worth downloading the Outlook app from the AppStore and using that instead. You can then just click on the e-mail, open the menu and use the report junk function.
I hope that helps but if not apologies if I have misunderstood your issue.
Hi Robert, you have it spot on. I did go through a phase of reporting spam and phishing to outlook but I did not notice any useful reduction. My preference is to report it to HMG security service.
Bob
9fingers wrote:TrimTheKing wrote:Yep, read it but assumed you would just do the needful from the pc... If you don't have that account on the PC then yes, you're scuppered.
That account can be accessed from pc but outlook the new host for hotmail does not seem to offer that facility either similar to the mail app on iPhone.
I’ll happily forward spam and phishing to hmg if it were on the phone
Bottom line seems to be the hypocrites behind outlook Mail do not have effective spam filtering on incoming mail but do implement better filtering on outgoing mail.
The hotmail account is used specifically with websites that want registration when I don’t want to register so a vast proportion is unwanted anyway.
Bob
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