IPhone and Junk mail
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IPhone and Junk mail
I'm new to the Iphone and although I'm very happy with it, one aspect is driving me crazy!
I have set up a couple of email accounts to be forwarded to the phone, but my main personal email account on the phone also receives all the junk mail that is filtered out on my laptop/PC. I'm getting around 50 email per day on the phone, and 90% of them are spam that are automatically filtered into the Spam Folder on the server, but appear to be being sent to the Iphone.
How can I stop this??
Thanks in advance.
I have set up a couple of email accounts to be forwarded to the phone, but my main personal email account on the phone also receives all the junk mail that is filtered out on my laptop/PC. I'm getting around 50 email per day on the phone, and 90% of them are spam that are automatically filtered into the Spam Folder on the server, but appear to be being sent to the Iphone.
How can I stop this??
Thanks in advance.
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You are obviously using an email address from a provider that doesn't filter spam at source. Consider Gmail or GMX or in fact anyone that does actually filter at source. To be honest if you are getting that much spam, it's probably time to change your email anyway...I don't get spam via my email provider so none comes onto the phone.... As far as I know, there is no filter list on the phone, then again I've never had occasion to look for one...
Good luck...
Good luck...
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There you go!
Get yourself a Gmail account, set the BT Internet account to forward everything to Gmail, which will filter it for you.
You can then set up the Gmail account as an Imap on your iPhone, and the same on the home PC, so you have all your "stuff" to hand wherever you happen to be.
Get yourself a Gmail account, set the BT Internet account to forward everything to Gmail, which will filter it for you.
You can then set up the Gmail account as an Imap on your iPhone, and the same on the home PC, so you have all your "stuff" to hand wherever you happen to be.
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I'm using BT Internet!
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I think you may have missed my point. On my BT Internet server page, the majority of the spam does go to the the Spam Box, but for some reason, it still gets forwarded to my phone.
I guess I will have to take Keef's advice, but if there was a solution that meant that I didn't have to set up another email address to prevent it, I would rather take that. As it is I use a Bigfoot forwarding address, so adding another one means my emails will be doing some serious emiles! Don't suppose it really matters though..............
I think you may have missed my point. On my BT Internet server page, the majority of the spam does go to the the Spam Box, but for some reason, it still gets forwarded to my phone.
I guess I will have to take Keef's advice, but if there was a solution that meant that I didn't have to set up another email address to prevent it, I would rather take that. As it is I use a Bigfoot forwarding address, so adding another one means my emails will be doing some serious emiles! Don't suppose it really matters though..............
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If your mail is starting from a Bigfoot address, send it direct from there to your Gmail Imap address. You don't need to "use" the BTInternet address at all.
You can also set the BTInternet one to point at Gmail.
I don't use the e-mail addresses provided by my ISP. I've changed ISP a few times over the years, and not had to tell anyone about it. It "just works".
Once you've had a few weeks working with Imap on the iPhone and the home PC, you won't want to change back.
You can also set the BTInternet one to point at Gmail.
I don't use the e-mail addresses provided by my ISP. I've changed ISP a few times over the years, and not had to tell anyone about it. It "just works".
Once you've had a few weeks working with Imap on the iPhone and the home PC, you won't want to change back.
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I too use BT and never get spam in my inbox, It also filters out 'spam' from Amazon into the spam box but puts order info and receipts from them in the inbox which is very good, so stop knocking it keef it's better than GMail or hotmail.
Also what do you expect from a Mac based piece of kit.
Also what do you expect from a Mac based piece of kit.
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Sorry pal, your question means not a lot to this luddite!
I don't know what imap is, but Keef seems to like it, yet you advise I turn it off?
Sorry pal, your question means not a lot to this luddite!
I don't know what imap is, but Keef seems to like it, yet you advise I turn it off?
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I've just gone from the Blackberry to Iphone and I didn't have this problem with the Blackberry either! So, I guess it may be an Iphone thing.
I've just gone from the Blackberry to Iphone and I didn't have this problem with the Blackberry either! So, I guess it may be an Iphone thing.
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Reading your earlier post I'm not certain if your Spam is downloading into your inbox folder or into it's own Spam folder...
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Reading your earlier post I'm not certain if your Spam is downloading into your inbox folder or into it's own Spam folder...
However!
That same spam folder is being forwarded to my Iphone along with all the good email that I want. So, my spam box is working as advertised when accessed in the normal way, but causing me much angst on the Iphone!
The more I read these posts, the more I think there must be something I can do about it, as it appears to be just me that is effected! Is there a setting that I've missed? Unless of course none of you chaps get much spam in your spam box. My earlier statement of 50 per day may have been a slight exaggeration, but I would say 20 per day is probably normal.
Getting a new email address is obviously a fairly simple solution and one that I will employ if there are no other suggestions as to some settings either on the phone, BT page or Outlook that might make it go away!
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Does SpamGuard work if I use an email program?
Normally, contents of your Bulk or Spam mail folder will not automatically appear when you check your mail using an email program. By default, the option to do this is turned off, and messages caught by SpamGuard can only be seen via webmail.
Please note that bulk and spam mail will remain in your Bulk or Spam mail folder and will count against your storage quota, unless you visit webmail and delete them yourself.
You can also choose how long you want to keep messages in your Bulk or Spam mail folder.
If you prefer to download the contents of your Bulk or Spam mail folder in addition to your inbox, go to webmail. For Mail Classic, click on "Mail Options" near the top right, then click on "Pop Access and Forwarding", and check the box next to "I want to receive all messages, including those that SpamGuard thinks are spam". Optionally you can select "For messages that SpamGuard thinks are spam, add [Bulk] as a prefix to the subject". This will help you to manage your bulk mail using your email program.
Normally, contents of your Bulk or Spam mail folder will not automatically appear when you check your mail using an email program. By default, the option to do this is turned off, and messages caught by SpamGuard can only be seen via webmail.
Please note that bulk and spam mail will remain in your Bulk or Spam mail folder and will count against your storage quota, unless you visit webmail and delete them yourself.
You can also choose how long you want to keep messages in your Bulk or Spam mail folder.
If you prefer to download the contents of your Bulk or Spam mail folder in addition to your inbox, go to webmail. For Mail Classic, click on "Mail Options" near the top right, then click on "Pop Access and Forwarding", and check the box next to "I want to receive all messages, including those that SpamGuard thinks are spam". Optionally you can select "For messages that SpamGuard thinks are spam, add [Bulk] as a prefix to the subject". This will help you to manage your bulk mail using your email program.
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spannersatcx,
I had gone through that process already, but thanks for the pointer.
I've taken Keef's advice. I have have a Google Mail address to add to the list!
Thanks everybody.
BTW. BT Internet still haven't responded to the query that I sent them on the subject. Time to spend my hard earned somewhere else, I think!
I had gone through that process already, but thanks for the pointer.
I've taken Keef's advice. I have have a Google Mail address to add to the list!
Thanks everybody.
BTW. BT Internet still haven't responded to the query that I sent them on the subject. Time to spend my hard earned somewhere else, I think!
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If I open up my BT Internet mail page on my PC/Laptop, Junk mail is where it should be..... in the spam folder. So no problems there.
However!
That same spam folder is being forwarded to my Iphone along with all the good email that I want. So, my spam box is working as advertised when accessed in the normal way, but causing me much angst on the Iphone!
The more I read these posts, the more I think there must be something I can do about it, as it appears to be just me that is effected! Is there a setting that I've missed? Unless of course none of you chaps get much spam in your spam box. My earlier statement of 50 per day may have been a slight exaggeration, but I would say 20 per day is probably normal.
Getting a new email address is obviously a fairly simple solution and one that I will employ if there are no other suggestions as to some settings either on the phone, BT page or Outlook that might make it go away!
However!
That same spam folder is being forwarded to my Iphone along with all the good email that I want. So, my spam box is working as advertised when accessed in the normal way, but causing me much angst on the Iphone!
The more I read these posts, the more I think there must be something I can do about it, as it appears to be just me that is effected! Is there a setting that I've missed? Unless of course none of you chaps get much spam in your spam box. My earlier statement of 50 per day may have been a slight exaggeration, but I would say 20 per day is probably normal.
Getting a new email address is obviously a fairly simple solution and one that I will employ if there are no other suggestions as to some settings either on the phone, BT page or Outlook that might make it go away!
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I think I'm being really thick here.....Does your spam on the iPhone download into a 'Spam folder' or does it download into the 'Inbox folder' and mix up with your legit mail?
The *best* method therefore is to have the spam filtered out at the server end - i.e. BEFORE it gets downloaded to your Outlook or your device. This is why reputable IT companies always employ spam filters at the server end