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Spam filter not working on info@ messages

Hello,

For the past few months I have been receiving spam from info@xxxx.yyyy.zzzz where x y and z are always different. I have tried to set a filter to move anything with from containing 'info' or 'info@' to the spam folder but these filters have not worked at all. Is anyone else having this problem? Any suggestions for filtering these messages? Its particularly annoying because these messages take 20-30 seconds to delete on my iPAD.

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JDoe5

Use an email client and use its spam filtering capabilities.

In short, don't rely soley on Vz's SpamDetector.

Tarper

Thank you for your reply.

I do use an email client on my PC however there is no such option with email on the iPad. For some reason, these emails take a very long time to delete on the iPad.

Filtering all messages from info@blah.blah.blah into the spam folder would seem to be very straight forward however Verizon's filter feature simply does not appear to work.

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JDoe5

The iPad is nolthing but a glorified Content Viewer.

On a desktop or notebook computer you may call it an application on the iPad you may call it an "app" but it all boiuld down to obtaining the right software for the need. In the case of an iPad, you shouldn't be using as a Primary System for accessing email. Just like I have challenged many to write a thesis on "writing a thesis on an iPad". It isn't the proper "platform" for Word Processing and it is not the best platform for accessing one's email.

Tarper

Thank you once again Dave for your informative reply.

With all due respect however, you opinion about what is a suitable platform for receiving email or your feelings about iPads in general is not relevant. I understand very well the limitations of using a tablet as an email client but I also expect Verizon's email filtering feature to work as advertised.

The question I put to the forum is simply this; are others receiving these types of spam messages and has anyone successfully used the filtering feature to steer these messages to the trash thus avoiding having to download them from the server.

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hpreddi

Try this....get a gmail account...set gmail email filters...forward all email from verizon to gmail....stop using verizon for your email readers

ZachE1

It's ridiculous that Verizon's spam filtering works much worse than the spam detection in a free e-mail client like Thunderbird. I get a lot of spam that is not detected by Verizon, but Thunderbird catches it. However as the original poster mentioned, filtering in a client on a PC does not help when reading mail on an iPad.

We are paying Verizon so much money every month, why can't they buy better spam filtering? How come a free program like Thunderbird can do such a better job of spam filtering?

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