NA itouch spam

[Let'sgoflying!]

It appears that the itouch has zero spam filtering on the email browser. Breathtaking, the amount of stuff that is coming in.
Googling 'itouch spam' was unhelpful.

 

[Bob Noel]

what's an "email browser"?

And what server is the iTouch using for email?

 

[alaskaflyer]

How many non enterprise email clients do have spam filtering?

Who is your email service? Are you using POP or IMAP on your iPod?

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

what's an "email browser"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_browser


And what server is the iTouch using for email?

I found this definition for server:
"a computer that makes services, as access to data files, programs, and peripheral devices, available to workstations on a network." so I presume you mean, 'which computer provides email to my itouch?'
I have my internet access including email service with at&t, so it look like they would have a server that does this for me.


How many non enterprise email clients do have spam filtering?

I have no idea, and could not find out what that means using usual search techniques. Maybe you would rephrase it for me?


Who is your email service?

sbcglobal.net is the domain name of the email account if that answers your question. When I get mail on the laptop from that account via Seamonkey, I receive very little spam to the inbox, it is filtered for me.


Are you using POP or IMAP on your iPod?

I looked around and do not see an option to determine that.

Thank you.

 

[flyingcheesehead]

It appears that the itouch has zero spam filtering on the email browser. Breathtaking, the amount of stuff that is coming in.
Googling 'itouch spam' was unhelpful.

Dave,

There's no such thing as an "iTouch" which is probably why googling "iTouch spam" was unhelpful. Try "iPod Touch."

Also, AT&T/SBCglobal/etc. really don't care about filtering spam. I suggest a GMail account - They have excellent spam filtering, which is why whenever I have to enter my email address for online shopping or whatever I use my GMail account. It's very rare that I get any spam there.

The other advantage is, once you have a GMail account you'll never again have to tell people what your new email address is when you change ISP's. You should be able to set up some sort of forwarding from your existing email account to GMail to help ease the transition as well.

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

Thanks for the explanation Kent.
Too bad there isn't a spam filter built into the device's mail-viewing program, or an add-on which one might download.
I really couldn't stomach another email address/account, but thanks.

 

[ScottM]

Thanks for the explanation Kent.
Too bad there isn't a spam filter built into the device's mail-viewing program, or an add-on which one might download.
I really couldn't stomach another email address/account, but thanks.

Putting one on the device would be a disservice to the user. All that email would have to be downloaded, the device would have to decide what would be placed into the inbox and what would go into the trash. The device would use a lot of compute cycles to accomplish that which would require a faster more powerful CPU or else the use would have to sit and wait. That faster/larger cpu would use more power which equals less battery time. On top of that the user would still have to possibly pay for the wireless data download at worst case. At best the limited wireless bandwidth is being taken up with data that no one wants.

It is far better to catch the spam at the server with filters in that location. That is most likely why the feature is not in the email client on the iTouch [even though that is not the official name that is what people call it, so I am with you on that).

 

[ScottM]

Dave,

There's no such thing as an "iTouch" which is probably why googling "iTouch spam" was unhelpful. Try "iPod Touch."

You are correct about the name.

Type iTouch into Google and watch what the first result is. I wonder if Apple knew that people would shorten the name to iTouch and are actually paying for a search result position with Google? hmmm

 

[flyingcheesehead]

I really couldn't stomach another email address/account, but thanks.

The idea behind moving to GMail is not to have more than one account (that's just how I use it myself), the idea is that you'll never have to switch again, and it'll cut down on spam.

Also, are you using IMAP or POP? (Go to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> choose your email account. Just under the switch for turning that account on and off, it'll either say "IMAP Account Information" or "POP Account Information."

If you're using IMAP, all of your devices (Computer, iPod Touch, etc) should synchronize and if your computer has a spam filter or other filter that you set up, the changes should populate to the iPhone as well.

For example, if my laptop is running at home and I get a spam message while I'm away from home, my laptop will automatically move that message to the "Junk" folder. Then, when I open up that account on my iPhone, the message will already be gone from the inbox.

 

[jesse]

Filtering spam is extremely CPU intensive. I have twice as many spam servers then I do SMTP servers. At least 90% of the incoming mail that hits my e-mail cluster gets filtered. It's ridiculous.

Mobile devices really don't have the CPU to be trying to do spam filtering. Plus client-level spam filtering usually sucks.

 

[RJM62]

Filtering spam is extremely CPU intensive. I have twice as many spam servers then I do SMTP servers. At least 90% of the incoming mail that hits my e-mail cluster gets filtered. It's ridiculous.

Mobile devices really don't have the CPU to be trying to do spam filtering. Plus client-level spam filtering usually sucks.

The only client-side spam filter that I've ever been halfway satisfied with is MailWasher, which is available for Mac (and Linux), although I have no idea whether it will work on an iTouch. In a way, it makes things harder because it makes checking email a two-step process. But it can be tweaked to pre-select most of the spam for deletion, and gets somewhat better at deciding what is and isn't spam as it "learns."

Unfortunately, it also allows users to "bounce" spam, which I think is idiotic. But they do at least advise against using that feature.

-Rich