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Is there anyway to reduce the junk mail that comes through on my iPhone?!  You set it up for me with my business email and for some reason ALL of the junk mail seems to come through on my phone, but rarely any of the business emails I NEED to get.  Is there some way to change the filtering system or make it match the email system on my office desktop?

Thanks!!

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Yes, this is a bit of a problem. Currently there is no junk mail filtering on the iphone. So the best way that I know is to leave your mail program running on your computer with it’s junk mail filtering system active. Now, providing you’re using an IMAP email and not POP email (Bellsouth or Road Runner email is not good) then the mail program will sort through the junk mail as usual then sync automatically back to the iphone so while the junk mail may appear on your phone at first, they should disappear from the phone when the iphone syncs back over the cloud. Essentially you’ll be creating your own mail server by leaving the mail program running on your computer. Again, this method will only work with IMAP email like aol, mobileme, .mac, or gmail for example. Not RR or Bellsouth. I see you are running your email through your business website which adds another obstacle. You would need to check with your hosting service to see if they offer IMAP email. Some do, some don’t. You could also route that email through a gmail account for instance.

As far as your business emails, that would need to be addressed in your junk mail filtering settings within your mail application. You can customize your settings to work in such a way so that any previous recipients would not be filtered or people you have in your address book for example would also be left alone.

see my previous post on IMAP here:
POP email is inferior to IMAP | email | Sells Consulting
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