Overwhelmed by junk email

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The level of junk email I received was always manageable but at some point in the last couple of months I've obviously stupidly given my email address to a website that has passed it on. I am now receiving 100s of junk emails a day.

Because I am self employed and a new client's email could go into my junk email folder, and because there is some wanted junk email (like offers from Gap, Jojo etc.) I'm having to look through this massive list of emails daily.

It's a Hotmail address that comes into my Apple Mail on my Macbook. If I use a web browser to log in to Hotmail I can select loads of the junk emails and right click and 'block' the senders but I've been doing this for over a week now with no reduction in the amount of crap I'm receiving.

Can anyone help? It's driving me potty and is creating a time consuming daily task that I could do without.

The work email address I inherited had scores of junk emails coming in each day. After five weeks of right click, rules, always send mails from whoever to spam I am only now seeing a noticeable reduction. It’s tedious but it is paying off.

Thanks Surfing - I will persevere with the blocking!

As annoying as it is, can you either just block as pp said, or if there is an unsubscribe option a the bottom.
After a while they will stop.

The really junky junk emails don't offer an unsubscribe button (and if there was a link I'm not sure I'd trust it).

The annoyance doesn't bother me too much, it's that I am struggling with time pressures and could do without trawling through (literally) c.300 emails a day checking for genuine emails lost in the junk folder.

Could you hire someone for a week or two just to catch up and for the, to do all the unsubscribes etc?

You can add an app onto Outlook called Clutter which will automatically move any incoming spammy stuff into a separate folder. Would Apple Mail have anything similar?