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Email Folders

kiwi_girl

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In my email folders I have inbox, drafts, outbox, sent and recycle bin, but no junk or spam folder. Is there a way to add that and get rid of spam? I'm using Webmail on my PC and it's all set up to sync, but I am still getting a lot of spam to my phone.

I have found spam addresses under settings and I've manually added email addresses that are spam, but they are still coming in. Also do we have to add those emails by hand, is it not like my PC and you just flick them into spam?

I just can't seem to find an answer to this, so would be very grateful with some help with this.

Thanks
 
You didn't say what email service you're using, but I'll assume it's Gmail and give instructions for that. If you use something else the basic concepts are the same and many other webmail services are similar to Gmail.

Instead of entering specific spam addresses, create filters that catch spam by keywords, subjects, senders or similar, though not exactly the same, email addresses. You can stop far more spam with filters than entering specific addresses and with far less effort.

1. Log into your Gmail account and select a spam email you want to create a filter for.

2. Click on 'More' and in the drop-down box click 'Filter messages like this'.

3. A box opens. Put in the desired search parameters. Usually, I just click on 'Create a filter with this search' at the bottom of the box and leave the rest as is.

4. Another box opens. Select 'Skip the Inbox'. Select 'Apply the label' (aka Folder). Click on 'Choose label' and from the drop-down choose where you want to send these emails. For example I have a label (folder) called Filtered Mail for email that isn't spam but I can deal with later. At the bottom of the box select 'Also apply filter to matching conversations' and click Create.

All new mail "and existing* mail will be filtered and sorted.

Now, about creating new folders (labels). Email apps will automatically sync (aka import or transfer) folders you create using your email provider's webmail interface into your email app.

Log into your Gmail account online and create new Folders/Labels there and they will automatically transfer into your email app just as if you had created them there. This works with any email app.

If you use another email service such as Hotmail, Yahoo or a private domain, the same thing applies. Create folders and they will sync to the phone.

The above applies to IMAP service accounts. If you have POP3 service folders are not supported. But POP3 is outdated and most email service is IMAP these days.
 
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You didn't say what email service you're using, but I'll assume it's Gmail and give instructions for that. If you use something else the basic concepts are the same and many other webmail services are similar to Gmail.

Instead of entering specific spam addresses, create filters that catch spam by keywords, subjects, senders or similar, though not exactly the same, email addresses. You can stop far more spam with filters than entering specific addresses and with far less effort.

1. Log into your Gmail account and select a spam email you want to create a filter for.

2. Click on 'More' and in the drop-down box click 'Filter messages like this'.

3. A box opens. Put in the desired search parameters. Usually, I just click on 'Create a filter with this search' at the bottom of the box and leave the rest as is.

4. Another box opens. Select 'Skip the Inbox'. Select 'Apply the label' (aka Folder). Click on 'Choose label' and from the drop-down choose where you want to send these emails. For example I have a label (folder) called Filtered Mail for email that isn't spam but I can deal with later. At the bottom of the box select 'Also apply filter to matching conversations' and click Create.

All new mail "and existing* mail will be filtered and sorted.

Now, about creating new folders (labels). Email apps will automatically sync (aka import or transfer) folders you create using your email provider's webmail interface into your email app.

Log into your Gmail account online and create new Folders/Labels there and they will automatically transfer into your email app just as if you had created them there. This works with any email app.

If you use another email service such as Hotmail, Yahoo or a private domain, the same thing applies. Create folders and they will sync to the phone.

The above applies to IMAP service accounts. If you have POP3 service folders are not supported. But POP3 is outdated and most email service is IMAP these days.
 
Thank you for that. I'm not using gmail but a private email address and I am using POP. I've followed your instructions and have used the filters on my phone with some success. So I'm slowly getting rid of the spam.

Thanks again for your help.
 
If your private email has a webmail interface you can probably create folders in webmail and set filters that sort mail into folders much as I described.

However, since you're using old POP3 service and it does not support folders, the folders will not sync to your phone. To see the folders and contents you'll have to check them in webmail.

If you don't have webmail, with POP3 you have to setup folders and filters on your phone using an email client that is capable of doing that. The only one I can think of offhand is Maildroid.

Easy fix for all that: trash POP3 and switch to IMAP.
 
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