A truckload of Spam in Apple mail on my iPad

[Johanbgoot]

I need to set up a filter or something as I have begun to receive lots of spam emails in mail on my iPad beginning with “notifications” followed by a series of letters/numbers, suggestions please, thanks.

[jchuzi]

I have never used iOS, but in Mail in Big Sur, Mail Preferences has a tab for Rules. Explore that (if there is something comparable in iOS) and see if it helps.

[Xairbusdriver]

You must not have SpamSieve set up on your desktop Mac, otherwise, it would be sending most SPAM to the Spam mailbox in Apple Mail.

Mail's Rules might help but it's not just the sender that is usually different with every SPAM. Many times the 'addressee' is one of your contacts/friends! That's why SpamSieve is so good. It studies each message for the way the words are used and can set up an almost limitless number of "rules". After all, that's what computers are good at; 'seeing' the details and remembering them.

One caveat: Both the Mac and the iDevice will need to use the same IMAP (not POP) account(s).

[sluggo]

I've had SpamSieve for quite some time. But I can't say I'm impressed with it. It seems that I "train as spam" the same emails for days and days. Yet they keep showing up in the Inbox.
I found that setting up rules in Gmail actually catches and sends to Trash or Junk more of the offending emails before they're picked up by Apple mail than SpamSieve does.
But in the final analysis, it doesn't take very long to scroll through the BS and get rid of it every day. Just a little discouraging that a paid for app like SpamSieve is actually kind of poor at doing what it's supposed to.

[Xairbusdriver]

I’ve never used Gmail alone nor with Apple Mail. I’m not sure Gmail is actually a “standard” email server. I've heard they do have a good SPAM filter, I guess they should since they should have great insight into advertising!

SpamSieve only works with Mail and depends on the iOS Mail syncing the two email apps. I can’t remember the last SPAM I got in iOS, since I normally don’t open it before Mail has already ‘seen’ the emails and SS will have done its work. My Mac (and Mail) starts up before I do.

You might want to check the SpamSieve Corpus to see if it looks corrupted. Of course, make sure it’s the latest version that can run on your system. Contacting the Dev and explaining your use case might also help.

[sluggo]

I view all of my mail with Apple Mail. It fetches from the servers of 3 (all appear to be IMAP) different email addresses, so I generally never view Gmail or Yahoo in a web browser. But I did set the prefs in Gmail via the website to filter a lot of the junk. And it does a pretty good job, as I see that junk does end up in the Trash or Spam folder of Apple Mail. So I'm thinking that Apple Mail also scoops up whatever is in the Spam folder on Gmail and Yahoo's servers and directs it to the appropriate folders in Apple Mail.
It's just that I see many of the same emails from the same places showing up in my Inbox every day. After they've repeatedly been "trained" as Spam in SS.
I had this problem before with SS and just stopped using it for a period of time. I just did it myself the old fashioned way. Maybe I need to revisit SS settings and see if there's something I need to tweak.

[Xairbusdriver]

I just discovered that Mail did not open this morning. It must not have been open when I shutdown the iMac last night! So I now see 2 SPAM messages in iPad OS.

I don’t think Mail even has a Spam mailbox. That’s created by SS, AFAIK. Mail does have a
Junk mailbox, one for each account, I think. SS asks us to Disable Junk filtering in Mail prefs. Otherwise, Mail would ‘see’ things before SS. Might want to check that pref in Mail as well as updating SS to the newest version.

Again, the dev of SS seems rather quick to respond, I’d suggest contacting him.

[sluggo]

After taking a little time to read SS help this morning, it seems that whenever SS updates, the Apple Mail plugin becomes disabled and has to be reestablished. That was not done after the last update.
I did that this morning so I'm hoping for a big improvement.