Comments on: Get Spam-free Email on your iPhone

By: iphone spy

iphone spy — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:24:58 +0000

There is one way around it showing your ‘secret’ gmail address – and that is use something sensible. Instead of using an unintelligible gmail address ie ‘nobuggerwill guessthisone’ – I’ve created one that makes it clear its from my mobile eg: ‘FromJoeBloggsMobile’. Replies still go to your non-gmail account and are forwarded to your iphone via gmail – and remember the whole purpose of this was not to create a secret account so much as to use Gmail’s powerful spam filter that the iphone doesn’t by itself provide.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:04:31 +0000

Hi,
Another idea is to use a great spam filtering service such as spamdrain – http://spamdrain.net (Yeah, I know it costs a few dollars, but it sure has gotten rid of my junk). There is also an iPhone app in App Store.
One advantage is that you do not need to create a new mail account to manage. And you get the filtering done on all your devices since spamdrain is server based and works for all POP3 and IMAP accounts (as well as for domains).

Thanks for a great post!
Mike

By: Simon Bell

Simon Bell — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 08:40:54 +0000

I tried this & it worked for a few days, but Gmail stopped importing & forwarding the mail, so I stopped it. Another solution is needed. There should be an App !

By: Soren Sjogren

Soren Sjogren — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:36:33 +0000

I’ve been really tired of spam on my iPhone – this works like a charm.

Thanks

By: iphone spy

iphone spy — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 02:00:36 +0000

Yes! This is great. Not bothered that with the secret bit because all I needed was the spam filter.

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backyard gazebo — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:14:02 +0000

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labiv — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:09:49 +0000

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By: David

David — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:27:46 +0000

Caution: When setting up the mail account on iPhone, choosing Other as suggested no longer works. However, there is still a way to do it. Currently, the way to set up IMAP on iPhone with Gmail is to choose the Gmail email setup option, then choose the IMAP tab. Then you can use the settings as mentioned in the article.

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By: Leandro

Leandro — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:25:44 +0000

There’s an even easier and safer workarround suggested by Gmail itself: configure your iPhone mail account so it receives mail from your Gmail “secret” account but sends messages using your usual account SMTP. So you can filter spam while avoiding your sent email to appear as “on behalf of:”.

For example:
Incoming Mail Server
Host Name: imap.gmail.com
User Name: Your secret Gmail login
Password: ######## (secret gmail pass)

Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP)
Host Name: smtp.yourdomain.com
User Name: Your domain username or mail adress
Password: ######## (your domain or mail account pass)

By: Creating your own personal brand with a vanity email address

Creating your own personal brand with a vanity email address — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:32:57 +0000

[...] to my primary vanity address so I only have 1 inbox to check. I use a couple Gmail addresses to filter spam from reaching iPhones as [...]

By: Jason Mailley

Jason Mailley — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 04:56:17 +0000

Ok, spam has been around for several years and is clearly a known issue for us all. Mind you all geeks here happy to tweak around their products lack of use, I don’t see the solution here. Yes, I can clearly remove spam by handing email’s handling to Google’s server but that is a poor choice with lots of limitations.

It is not an option to me to be forced to be sent emails where customers will show “on behalf of”, It is unprofessional and will seem to some as I was trying to pinch some pennies by getting a free mail system.

I started computing with a PC and thought for a while that knitting my way to perfect solutions were the way to go. Then I heard Apple people telling me how these machines were perfectly conceived to be perfectly usable for the masses.

Emails represents 33% of the use of a cellular phone to me, maybe even more. What the heck did Apple’s engineers smoke to ignore spam while programing an email system. Even cheap sharewares have some kind of spam protection implanted.

By: Phillip Cole

Phillip Cole — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:32:05 +0000

Splendid. Thank you. Phillip

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:18:33 +0000

It might work for receiving spam free mail on the i-phone but all the suggested solutions for sending replies via the non-gmail account simply do not work.

I have just spent several hours trying all the various suggestions and whilst I can get emails to send by the non-gmail account if I’m sending it from the gmail dashboard they still get sent from the gmail account if using the i-phone.

I am actually missing my blackberry…….oh…..my…….god!

By: Vaughan

Vaughan — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:46:54 +0000

Fantastic – this has cleaned up my old email address completely… I now use the gmail imap for all computers.

By: Terry Vogelaar

Terry Vogelaar — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:19:23 +0000

WARNING: I applied this solution 2 days ago and this morning I received a Mail Delivery Failure because Gmail denoted ME as a spammer!

Because I was forwarding a lot of mail & spam to Gmail, they blocked me. What now? I have important contacts on Gmail and I need to be able to contact them…

By: Nick Aster

Nick Aster — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:07:18 +0000

Solid solution. One minor thing – you can’t mark things as read or unread this way. I can’t imagine there is a work around to this?

By: PatricM

PatricM — Mon, 24 May 2010 01:26:33 +0000

Thanks to Dan Booring for posting this tip, even though it was some time ago. Having just found it, I followed the steps and am spam free…on my Iphone and my Mac. Simple. But, without your help I would have never known. Thank you very much.

By: Nick Steer

Nick Steer — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:48:12 +0000

Spam was driving me crazy on my iPhone until I found your solution Dan. Even after spending money on anti-spam with my ISP it still found its way onto the iPhone. No more. The Gmail spam filter is very effective and there are added mail sorting benefits. Many thanks.

By: Anders A

Anders A — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:08:25 +0000

Ok, so when i forward the mail from my main account to my iphone I can’t retrieve it on my mac unless i add the gmail account to mail also? Or should my mail provider be able to KEEP the mail on my main account while also forwarding it to my gmail account, meaning that Mail checks my main account, filtering it from spam, while iphone checks it from my forwarded gmail account, both ´getting the same mnessages.

By: David Baril

David Baril — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:57:43 +0000

Great idea. I reconfigured my Gmail account to retrieve mail from my other accounts with “POP” and then configured the iPhone to access my Gmail account with IMAP as you recommended. Works like a charm! Gmail’s SPAM filtering is truly awesome and, with the IMAP config, you can easily check the SPAM folder for false positives.

A couple of notes – if you implement this solution, make sure you turn off mail retrieval from Gmail to your other accounts otherwise you will get duplicate messages in your other accounts. And remember to turn off mail retrieval from your other accounts to the iPhone. Note also, if you want to keep track of which account messages come to, Gmail provides a feature that allows you to “Label” messages retrieved from other accounts so that they appear in different folders .

David Baril
Almonte ON (Canada)

By: Kevin from Oz

Kevin from Oz — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:52:07 +0000

Thank you so much for this, Dan.
Now my iPhone seems properly set up at last.

By: thewitt

thewitt — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:17:16 +0000

Thanks for this – It was close enough to get me started. The correct way to set up IMAP on an iPhone is found here:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77702

Just use the address and password you want to filter in step 7.

Thanks for a great idea!

By: Ron Perel

Ron Perel — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:29:34 +0000

This makes the IPhone useable. It is the most significant thing done for IPhone email ever! Thanks SO much!

By: nick

nick — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:48:41 +0000

I’m sure someone already pointed this out but the gmail address is exposed in the headers of the email, also people using outlook will see

person@email.com on behalf of user@gmail.com

I get around this by just setting up my SMTP server to use my ISP’s email server with SMTP auth enabled. That way I am not sending through gmail.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:56:18 +0000

Thank you!! It worked great EXCEPT…
is anyone else having a new problem with the always bcc myself after setting this up. I am finding that reciepients are getting doubles of each email. When i turn off the ‘always bcc myself’ the problem disappears. BUT that feature (the bcc) is crucial for me. Any thought?

By: Billy

Billy — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:56:39 +0000

Okay – I discovered something now (sorry for the string of posts) that may solve the probloem half of us are having.

on the iPhone in the IMAP account information area I’ve entered an address other than my secret gmail address. When I do this the iphone DOES send from whichever default address I have selected on the gmail website even though I have “Reply from the same address the message was sent to” checked.

When I change that setting back to the secret gmail address they are all sent from that address.

Weird workaround but it’s working now.

Now I’m actually thinking of getting a normal gmail address and doing it from there so people will at least know it’s from me. I normally use several email addresses for different businesses and not one takes precedence over another so this may be the best solution for me. YMMV

– Billy

By: Billy

Billy — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:26:56 +0000

oops – wait – I spoke too soon – I’m having the same problem as half the people – it send back from my secret address instead of the default one I’ve selected.

By: Billy

Billy — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:42:11 +0000

Great article!!

I’m also using the option in the gmail settings/accounts window to check other POP accounts as I can’t get in and set that account to forward. It works great! The iPhone lets me select a “send from address” so I can send from the correct address even though I can’t set it up in the “send mail as” section. As to the posting above – my servers forward emails with the original sender’s address in them. Maybe different servers act differently so check yours out.

– Billy