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Sunday, December 15th, 2024 8:59 PM

email spam

Hello, I recently came across a post by

Mikwaz titled "Blanketed with email spam"

To which I posted a reply. I am re-posting my reply here to highlight the belief that Comcast doing a lack luster job blocking spam and the solution that I came up with in the vacuum of help from Comcast / xfinity. BTW the solution works however it would be much better and a whole lot less cumbersome for the problem to be handled on the Comcast / xfinity side. The conspiracy side of me thinks that Comcast wants to dump their Comcast / xfinity email service.

Here's my reply to Mikwaz:

"After several months and several pages of email filters; they [the filters] seem to be intermittent at best however; ultimately they don't work as advertised and [now] essentially my Comcast email is nothing more than a forwarder "bot" for my Hostgater account [only for the elimination of spam]. What I am trying now is to forward all emails to my Hostgater account which has a robust tool set of filters and rules. So far this is the only way I can get a handle on SPAM in my Comcast email.

Also, Comcast does not seem to be blocking "black listed" or known spam sites like this one: vlan101.bl2-x3hl-xcg-2-01.ntwk.msn.net"

Since the update, I have tested this approach and it works really well.

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4 months ago

And xfinity staff is actively removing my detailed posts providing image examples of how the spam works, and how their spam prevention tools are plainly not working.  Had several posts removed just today that I put a lot of effort into.  Nothing says problem solved like censoring those complaining instead of solving the actual problem.

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@Colorado_Xfinity_Customer​ 

Sorry, apparently posts about this is present, but my browser had not refreshed.  See my post now.

https://forums.xfinity.com/conversations/email/spam-filter-is-terrible/675c90dd9d81813139b60ac7?

https://www.hostgator.com/tos

HostGator looks sort of complicated, representing an unnecessary additional step and monthly payment cost.  Isn't that what we pay Xfinity to provide when we sign up for internet and email services in the first place?  As far as an individual subscriber using individual emails are concerned?  We've been using xfinity email for twenty years.  We rely on this service and it is vital to our personal and business needs.  Xfinity should redirect human manpower away from societal and pr management issues, and simply hire better tech people whom can fix their email problems.  I was surfing reddit IT threads on smart server side management and there are a lot of people presenting a lot of solutions, many which appear to be applicable to xfinity.  Xfinity like many other ESG focused companies continues to spin off or deflect current and potential customers at a breath taking pace.  Why don't they just refocus away from woke issues and provide the service we originally subscribed to? 

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@Colorado_Customer​ Hello Colorado Customer, I completely agree with you as far as a heavy handed solution. It's like using a 16 lb sledge to hammer in a small nail to hang a picture on. You are correct, it's overkill. Hostgater has all the tools needed to host an ecommerce site with email and e-payments - Absolutely everything needed. I'm not affiliated with them just a user paying for their service. I just wanted to post a solution that I have found that works after I got tired of getting SPAM in my Comcast account that I knew I had implemented a filter to block.

I wouldn't be posting here if Comcast email filters worked. One main draw back I have noticed with Comcast tools doesn't have the ability to block domains like the ones that are known spam servers on the email black list. These should be the first ones blocked by Comcast at the top level so consumers don't have to deal with them. They don't block them and the tools they provide don't work to block them either.

I've been searching the web for answers to these problems but I don't find any detailed instructions that actually work to block SPAM. Apparently there isn't any way to do that with Comcast tools. I'll keep looking however since in the long run I really want to keep the Comcast emails separate from my Hostgater emails.

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