For the most part between my mail servers and the Mac OS X Mail application 99% of SPAM sent to me goes straight to the Junk mail folder never to be seen by me.
Sadly every now and again, an otherwise reputable organisation that I’ve never heard of seems to go out an buy a block of email addresses and add it to their newsletter mailing list. This of course will usually get past any spam filters.
So, being the zero tolerance grumpy old bastard I am, here’s a quick tip for immediately reporting them to the ACMA.
Simple step by step instructions:
1. In your Address Book add this email address: report@submit.spam.acma.gov.au
2. Give it a name/nickname of “Spam” (if you want you can add the ACMA website URL in as well)
3. Next time you receive some Spam that gets by your filters simply forward it to “Spam”, Mail will pull the reporting email address out of the Address Book for you.
4. That’s it there is no step 4.
#Bonus Tip - if you want to add a website logo/picture to an Address Book entry like the ACMA logo in the screenshot simply drag the image from the webpage to the avatar location in the Address entry and drop it, then you can adjust the crop as shown below:
I've been described as a lost technocrat or a wondering luddite, personally I just like everything that takes us forward.