I've currently been hit with a stupid amount of spam in my iCloud account. Having been so careful for 15+ years with email I've obviously slipped up somewhere and it's hitting me pretty hard. I really don't want to sacrifice my email address but don't know how to go about stopping it. It's just random porn/non-sensical stuff with click through links. The domains vary massively but all of them seem to be legit sites and business. My Mac is pretty good at filtering the shit out but sadly the iPhone mail client doesn't recognise the difference and so I'm getting around 10 emails a day come through to my inbox. I can report spam by forwarding it as an attachment to spam@me.com but I'm not sure what Apple do with it at the other end. Are there any other steps I can take where I can blacklist the sending IPs somewhere?
I have been blocking them. Even with server side rules applied the odd one is getting through, guess I'll just have to live with it and keep sending them on to Apple in a hope they get taken care of. They're all in a very similar style so I'm guessing they're all being sent from one location.
The best advice you'll get I reckon will be spam filter them, ignore them and under no circumstances respond in any way to them. If your email address has been exposed there's not much you can do except deploy a spam filter and wait. I've got a yahoo address what was practically unusable at one point even with a spam filter, now it's fine again as I seem to have dropped off some lists as a non-respondent.
The issue here is really the lack of a filter on my iPhone (please no iOS v android arguments, I have to use an iPhone) Mac mail will happily drop it in the Junk folder, for some reason the iPhone won't follow suit on some emails. For example I got one earlier, on my Mac it disappeared into the junk folder straight away. On the iPhone it went straight to inbox, this was with server side filtering on. It's not a huge deal but it wasn't fun when I was sitting with my GF showing her something to then have a notification banner appear offering blowjobs and fisting. Guess it's more an Apple issue than anything else.
You know what, not so long ago I'd have taken the mickey out of the fact you're using apple whatever. But as you get older and more experienced the anti-apple bullshit not only gets tiresome but it's actually complete bollocks. In my experience apple products perform beautifully for those who employ them, and I still would recommend them for casual 'not into computers' family (not to say you are!). If your iphone isn't filtering the spam then there's nothing else I can add really apart from don't respond - as I have fuck all experience of apple products. Yes they're a pain in the arse when trying to do 'out of box' things with them, but the whole point in getting an iphone or macbook or whatever they're called is that you use them as intended and they work well. I'd say hit up the apple forums for answers, I did this once for a mate with an iphone and they're a damn good community.
Yeah the majority of Apple forum posts simply say send to Apple and hope for the best. Yup the whole anti-apple thing is just pointless these days, best to just let people use what they want. I'm happy to know I'm not a sheep though, I make a living out of iPhone Development (have done for 4 years) so it's a given that I use their products (recently switched to a Hackintosh though). Granted I could use a different phone and use an iTouch for Dev purposes but just seems like a waste of money, besides I moved to Android for a few months and it just wasn't for me.
Probably stupid question, but I'm not familiar with iPhone and apple devices in general: isn't there some kind of plugin or app that will work with your current email application in the phone to filter the spam? Or maybe another email app you can try that has a proper and working spam filter?
This is nothing to do with iPhone or android. Its to do with the me/icloud email service being crap and not blocking them. I have a domain that gets hammered with spam - but it all goes via google apps and gets picked up by google and blocked. I hardly ever see any spam and I get hundreds a day at least.
Spot on. As for a filtering app/plugin, all of Apple's native apps are sandboxed so there's no chance of a 3rd party dealing with it. Guess I could try another mail client. Apparently Sparrow is quite good.
Do you leave your PC on all the time? You could leave an app running that filters mail - assuming icloud supports imap (not sure if it does or not?!). Which would mean its also removed from your phone - problem (sort of) solved?
As its really an issue with Apple's spam filters maybe you could forward all your email to a Outlook / Gmail account and set that up on your device? I use Outlook with my own domain and it will happily pull email from email accounts from other providers, or accept them if there forwarded on. Its all filtered before it even gets to any of your devices so would solve your problem perfectly. You should even still be able to send email from the address you specify by default too.
