Spam - mail app for an iPhone?

[yellowtriumph]

As the years roll by, so the amount of spam increases. It does become annoying doesn’t it. But then I had a breakthrough, when I looked at the email addresses from which the spam was being sent I noticed a pattern. If I looked at say 3 typical spam emails the send addresses were, for example:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

I’m sure you can see the pattern - no matter how random the send email addresses were they always contained the phrase “.icu”.

I use Microsoft Home and Office 2010. I set up a simple ‘Rule’ that looks at the senders email address and if it sees “.icu” the email is immediately deleted - not sent to the deleted folder, it is deleted. My spam email count dropped to virtually zero, often in fact to actually zero for weeks on end.

Now, these spam senders are no fools and after a couple of months they change that bit of the address to something else, say:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

So, as soon as I get even a single spam email I set up an additional Rule to catch them. This takes all of 30 seconds or less and the effect lasts for months again.

So far so good. The above method works fine on my laptop at home so I thought I’d transfer it to emails on my wife’s mobile as she seems to be plagued by these damn things, So, I downloaded the Microsoft Outlook app from the Apple App Store and ran it. To my disappointment although this version of the app allows you to set up ‘Rules’ it does not seem to have the ability to set up a Rule to analyse senders email addresses and delete them if a certain word is detected.

Does anyone know of a simple iPhone mail app that allows this facility? BTW we run POP not IMAP if that matters. I hope this may help some others here too.

[Saab Dastard]

Who provides your email? Perhaps you can implement rules at source, as it were.

I'm with a cable broadband company, and the email service allows me to add filter rules using the webmail client, so that spam doesn't even reach my Outlook mail client - there's a pleasing option called "Discard" if it matches a spam address! But it is a never ending battle against the spammers, sadly.

SD

[yellowtriumph]

Who provides your email? Perhaps you can implement rules at source, as it were.

I'm with a cable broadband company, and the email service allows me to add filter rules using the webmail client, so that spam doesn't even reach my Outlook mail client - there's a pleasing option called "Discard" if it matches a spam address! But it is a never ending battle against the spammers, sadly.

SD

My email is provided but Fasthosts (UK). I have a basic service which I suppose means emails sent to my service provider (say [email protected]) sit on their server until Outlook 2910 on my laptop downloads it to my laptop (pop not imap). As such I have no Outlook email provision at the providers end to ‘tinker’ with.

[Saab Dastard]

I've got a Fasthosts email domain as well - there is a webmail interface: https://webmail.livemail.co.uk

There's a configurable spam filter available if you've got the Starter Plus or above account: https://help.fasthosts.co.uk/app/answers/detail/a_id/21/~/setting-up-your-mailbox-spam-filters

Oddly, you don't configure spam settings from within the webmail client itself, but rather using your account Control Panel. This does make it harder to add email addresses / domains to a block list, but it's better than nothing.

HTH

SD

[yellowtriumph]

I've got a Fasthosts email domain as well - there is a webmail interface: https://webmail.livemail.co.uk

There's a configurable spam filter available if you've got the Starter Plus or above account: https://help.fasthosts.co.uk/app/answers/detail/a_id/21/~/setting-up-your-mailbox-spam-filters

Oddly, you don't configure spam settings from within the webmail client itself, but rather using your account Control Panel. This does make it harder to add email addresses / domains to a block list, but it's better than nothing.

HTH

SD

Yes, if you have a look at a similar thread on Jetblast you’ll see I’ve referenced this facility. Thank you.