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    Posted on July 24th, 2008

    Written by Jeremy

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    I get waaaaaaay too much junk mail on my iPhone using my MobileMe account.  MobileMe’s server-side junk mail filter appears to be some kind of joke on behalf of the MobileMe development team.  Seems all a junk mail message has to do is basically wink at the filter, and the filter will happily bend over and take it where it’s put.

    This is a pretty major problem on a mobile phone.  After all, the damn thing buzzes in my pocket so often my ass is going numb.  And deleting all that crap mail becomes tedious, even with the new mass edit mode.

    So here’s what I’m going to try:

    1. I’m going to set up an email that’s purely a redirect.  In this case, since everybody’s sending email to my primary .mac account already, I’ll use it, and set it to redirect in the Account Preferences section online at me.com.  For the sake of argument, let’s assume my current email address is pipprimary@me.com (it’s not).
    2. I’m going to forward all that incoming mail to a Gmail account, and let Gmail’s much better spam filters cut it out at the server level.
    3. I’m going to instruct Gmail to forward my mail to another MobileMe account.  I’ll have to set up an additional MobileMe address (via family pack) since I’m using my primary as a redirect.  For the sake of argument, let’s call this secondary email address pipsecondary@me.com (it’s not).
    4. On my iPhone, I’ll set up pipprimary@me.com as an account, and disable mail, syncing only contacts, etc.
    5. Then on my iPhone, I’ll set up pipsecondary@me.com as an account, and disable everything but mail.
    6. I’ll use the method described here to set up my outgoing mail as coming from pipprimary@me.com.

    Hopefully, it’ll work like this:  when email comes to pipprimary@me.com, it’ll pop over to Google, get the spam taken out, and get sent on again to pipprimary@me.com, where it will be pushed to my phone.  When I reply, the reply will go through Gmail and come out looking like it came from pipprimary@me.com.  All my email gets to me (with the added benefit of being archived in Gmail), and gets sent back as being from me, and nobody should be the wiser.

    Wish me luck, two people that read this blog.

    Edit:  I’m not entirely convinced MobileMe even has server-side spam filtering; it may just be a setting that sets it up in your Mail.app preferences.  I’m too lazy to research this though.

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