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pedzsan

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May 22, 2016
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Leander, TX
Most of my email comes from an imap4 private email account. I have it set up to mark what the email server thinks is spam / junk email but not delete it.

Mail.app on MacOS recognizes the junk / spam headers added by my server and puts them in the junk folder. For safety, once a week or so I plow through that folder pulling out the emails that were mismarked. When I do this, I use the Mac’s GUI to move them out of the junk pile.

I *think* this is teaching the Mac to be better. I’ve definitely convinced myself of this. Off topic from my original intent is to ask if that is really true.

The question I have to do is how to get iOS to do roughly the same thing? Utopia would be for all of my devices to share the junk / spam email filtering “lessons” so moving an email to junk on iOS would teach iOS and MacOS that I consider that particular email to be junk and vice versa — moving emails out of junk would teach both that I consider that particular email to be ham.

Is there any way to do this? If not, has anyone heard rumors that this is something that Apple (or perhaps a third party) will do in the future?

What happened is my MBP had a bloated battery so I took it in for repairs. It will be 7 to 10 days before I get it back so I’m forced to use just iOS email for a week and it seems to be lack luster to me so far.

Thank you for your time
 

TrenttonY

macrumors 65816
Nov 14, 2012
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I have no help in your issue.

But all I can say is the email.app on iOS and macOS are so very different, in terms of features. They really need to fix this.
 
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