topic Re: Mcafee anti-virus does it expire in Internet

Stop the flow of spam email

DavidO — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 14:45:29 GMT

In my continuing battle to stem the flow of spam email I'd like to know if there is an option to temporarily disable a Bell email account rather than delete it. I'd still like to use the address but perhaps disabling it will bounce the spam and reduce the amount received.

Thanks....

Re: Temporarily Disable an Email Account

Sams — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 10:59:56 GMT

Hi David. If you go to the internet section in your bell.ca account there is a Manage Bell email link. In there you can select the email you want to deactivate and click the delete button. This will deactivate your email account and give you the option to reactivate it at a later time.

If someone sends you an email while your email account is deactivated then they will get an auto reply message that tells them their email was not delivered.

I don’t know if this will actually solve your spam problem but interesting approach. Let us know if it works. I think there are many spam control options you can try if you log into your email on the bell.net portal using a browser on your computer.

Re: Temporarily Disable an Email Account

DavidO — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 13:48:25 GMT

Hi Sams,

Thanks for the info.

I've seen the delete option but wasn't aware it would just deactivate and could be later re-instated. I've tried several spam filters that Bell has available but I have a couple of email address' that have been breached and the spammers just change the address' they send from. So I thought I might just disable the accounts for perhaps a month and when enough email bounces back to the source I'll be dropped from their database.

If all else fails I'll just get rid of those accounts.

Regards,

David....

Re: Temporarily Disable an Email Account

Sams — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 20:56:00 GMT

I feel your pain David. Spam drives me crazy and seems like you can never get away from it.

on my main email account, I set all emails except ones from my contact list to go into junk folder.

Bell does let you have a bunch of email accounts so it’s easy to create new ones. I created a junk email account that I use anytime a site that can potentially use my email for spam asks me for an email address. I will have to try your approach……...maybe you’re on to something.

Re: Temporarily Disable an Email Account

DavidO — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 13:59:19 GMT

I too have a junk email for just the sort of occasion you mention. Sadly it's not the one that's been breached.

I'll post again in a couple of weeks or so and let you know if my little experiment works.

Re: Temporarily Disable an Email Account

DavidO — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 21:15:40 GMT

Sadly my experiment failed.

I think the idea is sound. The problem was that when I used the option to delete the Bell email that was being spammed it remained in my list of email address's but eventually got deleted from the Bell server. So I'm still trying to find how to pause an email account so the spam will bounce back but eventually re-enable the account and see if the spam has stopped.

Re: Temporarily Disable an Email Account

BellPatricia — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 13:23:49 GMT

Thanks for letting us know @DavidO!

Spam messages can be very annoying, but disabling your email account will not really prevent new spam messages from being sent to you in the long run.

Instead, may I suggest some troubleshooting steps? If you haven’t already, take a peak at the post Getting spam emails. It has some easy tips that can help reduce spam volume.

If you've already tried those troubleshooting steps and have not seen a reduction, let us know.

@BellPatricia

Re: Temporarily Disable an Email Account

DavidO — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 15:45:47 GMT

Thanks for your input.

I'm retired now but most of my career was in Tech Support. Went to your suggested link (Getting Spam emails)and here are some of my results.

I am aware of the junk/spam difference and I control my junk usually by using the unsubscribe option (I use Outlook for the desktop).

What I've been doing is checking on the Bell Webmail before downloading any mail to my desktop and adding the domain or sender to the "Block Sender" field in the Security Settings.

I do it this way because I'm trying to stop the spam at the Bell server before it comes down to my desktop. I'm not aware that if I block a domain/sender from my desktop location it reflects that info back to the server.

One thing I have discovered is the "Block Sender" field on Bell Webmail will only take so much text and then the "Save" button produces an Error until I delete some text and then re-save.

I assume I can rest assured that if I delete an email address on the Bell server that it is gone for good?

Re: Temporarily Disable an Email Account

Snickers17 — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 15:13:50 GMT

I have bell.net email address and have been receiving a lot of spam lately. I don’t really want to create a new email. I mark them spam and forward them to phish@bell.ca but it doesn’t seem to help. Any suggestions?

Re: Junk email

BILL1 — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 14:31:24 GMT

my wife is having the same problem. I have used every method of blocking and nothing works. Need a way to block these emails based on a keyword in the sucbject line, like McAfee. getting fed up. help Bell

Re: Stop the flow of spam email

snowblower — Thu, 25 May 2023 19:26:39 GMT

I use gmail (behind my own url). I almost never get spam email. They seem it have it nearly totally under control. Not sure why Bell has this problem in 2023.

Re: Spam

oldman55 — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:09:08 GMT

I am having the same issue on my bell.net account. No amount of filters seem to be able to stop this as the email address and domain change on every email. If they get enough reports they eventually will do something about it. There was a similar problem last year that eventually got fixed.

Re: Stop the flow of spam email

dks — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 20:04:37 GMT

@DavidO wrote:
HI
In my continuing battle to stem the flow of spam email I'd like to know if there is an option to temporarily disable a Bell email account rather than delete it. I'd still like to use the address but perhaps disabling it will bounce the spam and reduce the amount received.
Thanks....

While I am not going to take that step, there is something you can do if you use the Microsoft Outlook client. You can mark an e-mail a Junk and block the sender. Any subsequent e-mail from that address will go straight to Junk. I empty the Junk folder regularly.

Spam Filter

BuryGirl — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 17:38:38 GMT

Does Bell email have any spam filters? Or, is the only way to control spam coming into your email is to select the option to "block the domain" on each individual email?

Re: Spam Filter

WelshTerrier — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 19:45:20 GMT

Bell does block some things.... spam is a whole subject by itself. Define spam & my categorical answer to you is no!

Bell does not black spam! I wish they did but......

Junk and Spam

Allison — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 21:48:49 GMT

After decades of using Bell, I am about to cancel because I cannot continue with the dozens of junk emails that fill up my mailbox every day. Blocking senders and domains has absolutely no effect - I am been trying for months. Is Bell doing anything to improve its systems and provide any kind of protection? I do not have these problems with any provider except for Bell.

Unusually Large Numbers of Spam

Majam — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 21:01:18 GMT

I realize there are a lot of suggestions for curtailing spam but my mail client block and delete filters now contain over 4,000 items. This is beyond ridiculous. Worse, the blocked items in my mail client seem to have no effect on the same subsequent spam mail being sent to my mobile devices (iPhone and iPad). Blocking addresses on my Apple devices is ineffective as there's no way that I've found nor any that Apple support has to offer that will allow one to block email pseudonyms. The result is we receive many emails under the same pseudonym but all with different email addresses. I lodged a trouble ticket re this issue with Bell and the most recent feedback I received was that someone is available to change my hardware (copper to fiber), plus a recommendation to send my 4,000+ blocked emails to Bell abuse. The Bell abuse recommendation is to send the header info on all suspicious emails. Does anyone else see what's wrong with this picture?

Stop the flow of spam email

HabsFan45 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:20:15 GMT

My inbox on Bell Mail is constantly inundated with Spam and Phishing messages. Can Bell not do a better job of blocking these? I have a Gmail account and they do a great job of filtering them out. Why can't Bell do the same?

Stop the flow of spam email

Stevejac99 — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:40:46 GMT

Spam is pouring into my email. How do stop it?

Re: Mcafee anti-virus does it expire

dks — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 11:08:59 GMT

Thank you for your question. You are not obligated to pay for a spam filter if you choose not to. The level of spam comes and goes, as I have discovered. Most are from @gmail accounts and in my case, are fraudulent Bell bills or attempts to steal my login credentials. I agree, it's annoying.