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iPad
Can you please supply a step-by-step for routing my pop accounts through gmail to filter junk & then retrieve the non-junk mail on my iPad. Will check into my mail servers filtering capabilities.
TIA
Bevon
This was the best answer I've ever found to the ongoing issue of spam to my ISP email. Set up in a few minutes, had to deal with annoying duplicates of whatever emails were on the server, and now it works perfectly. I normally get 20+ pieces of spam daily that I have to manually delete on my iPad. I haven't had a thing in 24 hours and the Google spam catcher hasn't been wrong yet. Thank you so much!
I can't find any good spam filtering on the iOS either. It is a real pain and keeps me from using my iOS devices for serious work. It is a really pity that Apple has crippled Mail on the iOS so badly. It should have the full functionality of Mail on the MacOS complete with rules, extra signatures, etc. It makes me think Apple doesn't want people to migrate to using the iOS devices off of their Macs.
I agree with the gmail filtering, but if you have all your mail go through gmail. If you reply to the email won't it use the gmail account as the from rather than the email that it was originally sent to?
london.roadhog wrote:
I agree with the gmail filtering, but if you have all your mail go through gmail. If you reply to the email won't it use the gmail account as the from rather than the email that it was originally sent to?
You can adjust that in Gmail settings from your computer, if I recall.
How would someone set up Spam Filters directly on an iPad, without a computer?
Pine Sap wrote:
How would someone set up Spam Filters directly on an iPad, without a computer?
One would not. The Mail app has not spam filtering capabiities.
Are you or anyone else reading this aware of a more fully featured Mail App for iPad that suports Spam filtering synchronized with the mail host as it would be with a 'real' computer?
Is the lack of Spam filtering an iPad system strategy or architecture problem, somethiing they didn't think about or just didn't want or know how to do? The assumption that 'everyone' has a computer to manage such things is limiting useful functionality. The lack of ability to mark something as Spam at the iPad is limiting useful functionality.
Apple appears to have dumbed down all of the applications for iOS, removing critical features that make it so that iOS applications don't do the whole job and one must also have a computer if you want to do more than the absolute basics. It is a marketing strategy. The iOS devices appear to be designed to appeal to the masses through over simplification. This is a weakness for Apple relative to the Android competition.
What we need is both legacy support so that all previous MacOS and iOS software at least back to MacOS Classic works on all devices. This would eliminate this dumbed down dichotomy. Then if you want to use the simplified iOS type mail you could or you could use the more powerful Mail.app type program available on MacOS. It would also give us access to our older software which we still need.
Lack of spam filtering makes the iOS mail nearly useless.
Junk mail filtering in iPad mail app
