spam email

You can only minimize or control the flow of spam but you can never eliminate them.

When you access your centurylink mail with a browser (webmail), are those junk mail in your spam folder or in your Inbox folder? If they are in the spam folder, does your iOS device download them into your Inbox folder on the iPad?

That sounds like you configure your laptop mail and iPad mail with a POP3 account. The spam filtering is done on the client side (your laptop) while downloading the messages from your mailbox. Since the iPad (iOS) mail client does not have spam filtering, it pulls it directly to Inbox. If you reconfigure iPad mail to IMAP, iPad mail should correctly reflect the content of your mailbox.

I don't know if this is the correct link but you can try it:

http://internethelp.centurylink.com/internethelp/email.html

Look under

Get POP3, IMAP, SMTP server, security and port information.

To be honest, I have never heard of Centurylink. If the above link is incorrect, do not blame me :-)

There is not going to be a lot you can do with POP3.

evoche wrote:

I Went to the web site and it says centurylink is incoming pop3. Doesn't look like something I can control. Any thoughts?

This is conflicting with your previous post that says "I Just looked and my iPad is imap." So which one are you using? IMAP or POP3?

According to the link I posted yesterday, centurylink does provide IMAP access but it isn't "supported". Here's a note on the bottom of the page:

^ CenturyLink Technical Support does not support IMAP. IMAP settings are provided as a self-help only reference.

I'm not sure what they mean by unsupported. I'm guessing their tech support can't help you with questions regarding to IMAP.

Configure your device with the following:

Incoming mail (IMAP)

mail.centurylink.net

IMAP port 993 SSL

Outgoing (SMTP)

smtp.centurylink.net

Port 587 TLS

Be aware that spam filtering has to happen on centurylink server, that is, junk email redirection to spam folder must be automatically taken care of on the server side. Any filtering that happens on your laptop (if the laptop is using POP3) will not be reflected on your iPad.