wetdog160

Q: Can I Filter Junk Mail while my MacPro is off?

Why is this not a possibility? It's incredibly supidly ridiculous how much junk mail I get and when my MacPro is turned on, the mail gets filtered. Howerver if I turn my computer off for the weekend and I'm checking mail on my iOS device there's like no point. I will have about 200 trash emails to sit there and sort out. It's a horrible waste of time that Apple should have thought of by now.

OR BETTER YET when I left the office for 2 weeks to shoot some short films in Africa. Of course I didn't take my macpro with me and yes I turned it off. Needless to say i had over 2,000 junk emails in my inbox making it impossible to actually see my mail.

 

Now you say this sounds like a problem with your email provider... well sorta kinda but not really. It's Godaddy. They do my website hosting and email with through them too. With their new servers, they don't filter the mail. They just send it straight to my inbox. I can't blame them. But I can blame Apple Mail. This problem *****.

 

Am I the only one with this problem? Is the only solution to go with another mail provider? I mean sheesh. So many people use Godaddy you would think they or apple would have come up with a solution. I've already done the calling to Godaddy support. No luck. They just leave me with the same response of roughly- "well your desktop email client should do that for you." And I'm just left with headaches.

 

Any knowledge or background on this subject would be awesome. I know there's got to be others out there furious with the same thing.

Jerrod

Mac Pro (Late 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

Posted on Jul 21, 2014 10:53 AM

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  • by BobHarris,

    BobHarris BobHarris Jul 21, 2014 11:10 AM in response to wetdog160
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    Jul 21, 2014 11:10 AM in response to wetdog160

    No Power, no processing.

     

    It is possible to put the Mac to sleep and if it supports "Power Nap" then it can wake up every so often and process mail.

    <OS X: About Power Nap>

     

    Or change email providers and use one that actually filters your email for SPAM and other Junk email.  Gmail is very good at this, as long as you do not mind Google gathering statistics on your mail to use for advertising.  There are other email services that also do filtering.

     

    NOTE:  GoDaddy hosts my domain name and email address, HOWEVER, I just have the email address pointing to my gmail account.  If I want to change mail servers, I just change my GoDaddy domain entry for my email address to point to a different server.  I keep my same email address.