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IPad junk mail

SouthernBee — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 18:40:27 GMT

Yesterday noticed a lot of junk mail was in my emails. The emails have a blue circle 🔵 beside them. Starts with words like- the latest searching trends. I moved them to junk mail. Checked the junk mail folder and it was empty. Not sure why this started and continues today. I checked settings and everything but as usual clueless. Eveytime when I check my emails will include at least 10 junk emails. I googled IPad junk mail but very confused with information. Any help or suggestions appreciated. Southern Bee

Re: IPad junk mail

Still Raining — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:16:45 GMT

The junk mail is a function/product of your email not your iPad. I have found that hotmail is almost as bad as yahoo. Gmail seems to manage it better. All of them to toss in a valid message at times, so be careful.

You could just abandon a user name and start fresh too. Seems like you have to do that ever so often. It is a good idea for security too. Set up one for the bank, the stores etc.

Keep the one for personal emails very private and keep blocking.

This is almost as bad a phone spam.

Re: IPad junk mail

Nuttmeg — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 12:41:46 GMT

You can unsubscribe to mail by opening it and moving to the bottom of the item. You will find a link there.

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SouthernBee — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 17:26:55 GMT

@Nuttmeg : With this being junk mail- I was afraid to open it and try to unsubscribe, thinking it would create more mail. Southern Bee

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Nuttmeg — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 17:56:37 GMT

@SouthernBee wrote:
@Nuttmeg : With this being junk mail- I was afraid to open it and try to unsubscribe, thinking it would create more mail. Southern Bee

Most of my junk mail comes from a bank. I saw a drop in the amount mail.

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SouthernBee — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 19:26:28 GMT

@Nuttmeg : This is junk mail from various search results that I have not search nor from any business that I have purchased from and afraid to open and look for unsubscribe option for fear of increasing the amount of junk mail. Southern Bee

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dooBdoo — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 22:50:41 GMT

@SouthernBee, The blue dot in the native iPad Mail app simply indicates an unread message. Some of the settings to manage and filter your mail are in the iPad settings but most of them are accessed in the full website version of the email account, accessed via browser, and specific settings will vary depending upon your email provider (such as Gmail, Outlook, AOL, etc.). I don’t understand the “latest searching trends” you mention. Is that what you see in the subject line, verbatim?

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dooBdoo — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 22:20:47 GMT

@SouthernBee wrote:
@Nuttmeg : This is junk mail from various search results that I have not search nor from any business that I have purchased from and afraid to open and look for unsubscribe option for fear of increasing the amount of junk mail. Southern Bee

Exactly, @SouthernBee. If it’s spam and not a reputable sender address it’s not a good idea to open spam email messages, particularly if your settings permit displaying/loading remote images, and really not good to click any links including the unsubscribe links.

Re: IPad junk mail

SouthernBee — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 00:36:44 GMT

@dooBdoo : Leading search results for Natural weed killer

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SouthernBee — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 01:00:29 GMT

@dooBdoo : This just started the other day and starts with phrase like leading search results for natural weed killer. This is nothing that I have googled or any search for. When I click on : more and select junk to move to the junk folder. Then when I checked the junk folder to delete- the folder is empty and also not in the trash or any other folder. The email messages with the blue dot are the junk mail and not any of the others listed or displayed. Southern Bee

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SouthernBee — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 00:56:22 GMT

@dooBdoo : Do I need to check settings and make sure that permit displaying/loading remote images are turned off? Southern Bee

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dooBdoo — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 10:06:45 GMT

Good morning, dear @SouthernBee!❤️ Thanks for the helpful screen shot and information.

Regarding the blue dots, in my experience messages that are unread are flagged that way -- I did a quick search and a few people have encountered a related bug but it seems to be rare.

(After working on the other problems and fixing them, if new messages still aren't marked this way you have the option of sending a report to Apple -- copy and paste link: apple.com/feedback/)

About remote images, good email provider software will suppress display on all messages in the Junk/Spam folder regardless of your settings and that allows us to safely display them in our other folders. Some email provider settings allow options such as only displaying them for known senders, contacts, that sort of thing. Normally it should be okay to enable it with no worries, but right now with all the spam you might want to disable that setting at least temporarily.

There are settings deciding how strictly to filter mail, especially suspicious mail, they help protect us, and I think you might need to tighten up that filtering process.

It looks like the message in your example is standard bogus spam/junk, something your email filters should've sent to Junk/Spam rather than the IN box. Settings also can determine what happens to mail after it's moved to Junk/Spam and could be the reason your messages instantly vaporize when you manually move them there (you might look, though, and see if they're in the Trash folder).

It would help a lot to know your iPad's iOS version and also which email provider you use (what's after the "@" -- such as @hotmail.com, @gmail.com, that sort or thing) since the settings can be very different. I'm not an email expert, but I'll be glad to try and help and we have other posters here who know more than I about some of this, so I think (I hope!) we can figure it out.

😊

Re: IPad junk mail

SouthernBee — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 20:54:39 GMT

@dooBdoo : You are so kind and helpful, thank you. IPad version iOS 12.4.1. Email- yahoo.com. When deleting the junk mail- nothing is in the the trash folder . DH had doctor appointment today and wanted to go to the apple sevice center while transportation available but not able to do it. Thanks again, Southern Bee

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geezerette — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 21:14:40 GMT

@SouthernBee

First, let me say I am far from any kind of tech expert. But from your screenshot, it looks like you are looking at “All Inboxes”. In other words, the example you posted is showing all the mail in all your boxes, junk mail included.

If you want to look look at your Yahoo email only, it should be listed under the “All Inboxes” option, along with any other email providers you may have. If you click on “Yahoo”, it should take you to your Yahoo Inbox.

If you have any email coming into your Yahoo Inbox that you consider junk mail, you can send it to the Yahoo Trash box.

If you want to see another Yahoo box, scroll down from the main “Mailboxes” list and you should see the various Yahoo box options, i.e. Trash, Junk, Sent, etc. If you look at the Yahoo Trash Box, you should see all the emails that you (or your email provider) sent there.

As for the blue dot, that shows up on all new emails, until you click on them. Then the blue dot disappears. It’s to show you which emails you haven’t read yet.

I don’t know if that is what you are asking, but I hope it may have helped a little and not confused you. 🙂

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SouthernBee — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 23:38:49 GMT

@geezerette : Thank you. What I don’t understand the blue dot for new mail just started the other day. The All In boxes started the other day. I have no idea why. Southern Bee

Re: IPad junk mail

dooBdoo — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 10:42:36 GMT

@SouthernBee, You're welcome, but I'm afraid I haven't helped so far. We'll keep trying, though!🌻

With the multiple issues you've mentioned, it would be good to only take a step or two at a time to simplify the clues and diagnose the problem.

The blue dots flagging unread messages are standard on Apple mobile devices. I can't think of anything that would alter that, unless it's the rare software bug I mentioned in my previous reply.

You are a much better detective than I, @geezerette! I completely missed the the "All Inboxes."

@SouthernBee, I'm almost certain we never have that option unless we have more than one email account added to our iPad Mail app.

Have you added multiple email accounts? Look in your iPad "Settings," under "Passwords & Accounts."

Then, look under the "Accounts" heading (just below "Websites & App Passwords" and AutoFill Passwords"). See how many email accounts are listed.

Also, if you feel the blue dot anomaly and the "All Inboxes" just started a few days ago... did you change anything at all with your mail or your iPad about the same time you saw a change?

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SouthernBee — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 10:58:50 GMT

@dooBdoo : Good morning- I found this

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SouthernBee — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:02:18 GMT

@dooBdoo : That screen shot info is not me.The my accurate forecast- not listed on my home page but listed under folders where the yahoo email folder is listed?! Southern Bee

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SouthernBee — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:10:27 GMT

@dooBdoo : Also found this-

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SouthernBee — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:18:14 GMT

@dooBdoo : I am worried about my iPad security. I had planned to pay a bill on line today and afraid to open any accounts.

Also so noticed that my WiFi is dropping again. Southern Bee