Junk Mail question please

[Peter Franks]

I stopped sliding and deleting in iOS mail, which was a lot quicker and easier to delete, last week, because I assumed, wrongly, that sliding across, then clicking MORE, then scrolling down to MOVE to JUNK would stop that email address going into my inbox?

Clearly I was wrong, and all the emails I've done that with, still come to the inbox, so can anyone tell me what is the actual point of bothering to 'Move to Junk', as it's a much longer process than just sliding and deleting it in one swipe, and has exactly the same effect. None, and they keep coming back to inbox. There are 3 moves to 'move to the junk' folder, and just one to delete. And neither stops the same email address coming back to your inbox.

Thanks

 

[BrianBaughn]

iOS doesn't determine what is junk and what is not. It's determined by your email provider. Whether or not moving emails to the junk folder marks them in a way that your provider uses for future filtering, or not, depends on your provider.

 

[Peter Franks]

iOS doesn't determine what is junk and what is not. It's determined by your email provider. Whether or not moving emails to the junk folder marks them in a way that your provider uses for future filtering, or not, depends on your provider.

So many articles online that describe in detail about moving them and what to do in iOS for junk mail, and moving it to that folder, as I searched for it prior to posting this, and not one of them tells you it's down to your provider, so thanks for the heads up, I'm definitely wasting my time moving anything to junk folders. My provider is clearly lousy, as even the emails they send me themselves have 'SPAM' in their subject headers. A shame that the option of moving it is redundant to me. Thanks for your help!

 

[charlescopley]

Is your email *@icloud.com? I’d go onto iCloud.com and set up a filter. If it’s another email provider, do the same on the web site. Defeats the purpose of a mail client, I know, but it does a more thorough job at blocking junk mail.

 

[BrianBaughn]

So many articles online that describe in detail about moving them and what to do in iOS for junk mail, and moving it to that folder, as I searched for it prior to posting this, and not one of them tells you it's down to your provider, so thanks for the heads up, I'm definitely wasting my time moving anything to junk folders. My provider is clearly lousy, as even the emails they send me themselves have 'SPAM' in their subject headers. A shame that the option of moving it is redundant to me. Thanks for your help!

Which provider?

 

[Peter Franks]

Is your email *@icloud.com? I’d go onto iCloud.com and set up a filter. If it’s another email provider, do the same on the web site. Defeats the purpose of a mail client, I know, but it does a more thorough job at blocking junk mail.

Which provider?

Thanks for the reply gents. Never used an icloud email address as it goes. I used Gmail and old Yahoo for personal email, I've always used their own apps, and to their credit, they both did a decent enough job when it came to spam. This one is a business email. It's my info@ domain one, I'm a one man business, so it's the website address email. I have a few clients who spam me regularly, daily, and I just wanted to send them to junk without telling them to stop driving me mad. I get loads of spam from usual world wide suspects, and trying to stop them is like using a cup to get water out of a boat with a hole in it, as you know, but the ones I know what address they use were the ones I wanted to not block, but divert.

 

[BrianBaughn]

What you can do depends on that email host. I have a simple hosting account for one domain and I can do a limited amount of configuration via its cPanel interface.

 

[Peter Franks]

What you can do depends on that email host. I have a simple hosting account for one domain and I can do a limited amount of configuration via its cPanel interface.

Thanks Brian, it's just a relatively small company based here in the UK, but their tech help, typically, is in the Philippines and takes ages, so it's easier to just try and fathom it out yourself, The control panel here on theirs is not the greatest but will take a look, thanks again.

 

[now i see it]

Moving unwanted emails to the iOS Junk folder accomplishes nothing but moving them out of the in-box. Long ago it was touted that the Mac could learn what was junk by moving unwanted stuff to the junk folder but that claim never was given to ios Mail.

 

[Peter Franks]

Moving unwanted emails to the iOS Junk folder accomplishes nothing but moving them out of the in-box. Long ago it was touted that the Mac could learn what was junk by moving unwanted stuff to the junk folder but that claim never was given to ios Mail.

Interesting, many of the 'how to' all claim it did learn from it, and remembers. It's ludicrous like I say, that there's probably loads of people doing the click 'more', scrolling down to 'move to junk', and it's just a waste of time, instead of just slide to delete.