preventing spam on iOS or OSX?

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    i have various gmail accounts (personal and businesses) an icloud account, a couple websites URL's with email accounts and probably some others.
    is there e good way to get rid of spam?
    at a minimum can i stop these "XXXX" emails from showing up in my inbox on iOS?
    i keep googling about this and posting on it and no good answers.
    also anyone using a spam blocker that requires someone to actively show they are human before delivering it to an INBOX?
    so anything not signed as human goes to a general mailbox i can check once in awhile?
    THANKS
     

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    This Apple Knowledge Guide article is a decent overview of managing spam in Mail.app on MacOS and iOS/iPadOS. This is applicable to any email account, but particularly iCloud-based ones.

    GMail's spam filtering is already quite robust. If there are spam messages getting through, consider logging into the web interface for GMail, selecting those messages, and marking them as spam within Google's interface. This accomplishes the same thing of helping to train the spam heuristics to recognize messages that are getting through normal filtering.

    In both cases, you can periodically check the "Spam" folder to make sure legitimate messages aren't being tagged, and move them back into your inbox. Again, to help improve the systems that evaluate what is or isn't spam.
     
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    cateye said:
    This Apple Knowledge Guide article is a decent overview of managing spam in Mail.app on MacOS and iOS/iPadOS. This is applicable to any email account, but particularly iCloud-based ones.

    GMail's spam filtering is already quite robust. If there are spam messages getting through, consider logging into the web interface for GMail, selecting those messages, and marking them as spam within Google's interface. This accomplishes the same thing of helping to train the spam heuristics to recognize messages that are getting through normal filtering.

    In both cases, you can periodically check the "Spam" folder to make sure legitimate messages aren't being tagged, and move them back into your inbox. Again, to help improve the systems that evaluate what is or isn't spam.
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    hi. thanks you for your help.
    so apple article which i saw is for icloud email (not a problem), i should "tag" spam in the gmail interface as being spam (but it seems to me as you can see from the image it is tagged with a whole bunch of arteries already?!) and then - well what do i do about domain based email spam?
    but also why is mail that appears to be tagged as spam - presumably by google tho i could check - being presented in my Inbox i guess is a good follow up question?
    again i REALLY appreciate any help with this. i'm kind of desperate.
     
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    If it is spam to you, and it is ending up in your inbox, tag it as spam either within the GMail interface or within the Mail.app interface (on MacOS or iOS). It doesn't matter who else or where else it may have been evaluated as spam. We need where it is right now to recognize it is spam and filter out messages of that type in the future.

    Doesn't matter what kind of spam it is. It doesn't even need to be "spam" in the traditional sense. It can be any message from any source that you want to be filtered out and diverted into your spam folder prior to arriving in your inbox.
     
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