SPAM emails now downloaded from POP server

This has nothing to do with your phone as iOS has no spam filtering. You need to control your spam options at the server / webmail level.

What email provider is this?

Try resetting your Mail Account. First close your Mail App completely from the app switcher window by double clicking the Home button and swiping up the Mail preview pane up until it disappears from the screen. You may have to look for the Mail pane by scrawling to the left. Then go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > locate your email provider and click on the account. On the next page Delete Account. Then do a forced restart. Hold down the Home and Wake/Sleep buttons at the same time for about 15-20 seconds until the Apple logo appears. Then go back to Settings > Mail… and add the account again.

It is FAR more likely on yahoo's end:

• Yahoo, for whatever reason, seems to have more issues with mobile devices, especially iOS, than any other mail provider.
• The device can only receive what the mail server sends it. There is no known issue of the mail app randomly pulling Spam or Junk mail labelled items into the inbox.

I would try elcpu's suggestion.

POP is also more trouble than it is worth when accessing mail from multiple devices. You might want to consider converting it to IMAP or if that isn't possible, finding an IMAP provider.

There is little to lose in resetting the mail account and even though it is happening on two devices POP accounts can be difficult.. I have Yahoo mail and it works ok but I use IMAP.

I also would second Kilgore-Trout's last statement about IMAP accounts, they are easier to reach across multiple devices.

You are welcome....

dfeldmansf wrote:

I suspect it is,something on YAHOO side.

Didn't I say that to begin with...a server side config?