Re: [Fed-Talk] Blocking Email Addresses
Re: [Fed-Talk] Blocking Email Addresses
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Blocking Email Addresses
- From: Matthew Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:25:18 -0400
I agree with this sentiment in general. But I think there could be
improvements in email blocking.
Currently, if you have iCloud email, you can go to iCloud.com on a
computer and add filtering rules (iCloud.com on an iPhone doesn't do
anything for you). This is useful if you need to filter out recurrent
spam or companies that won't unsubscribe you no matter how much you
ask - or if you want your fed-talk mail to go into a special mailbox.
That being said, if your iPhone is your predominant email device, it
would be great if you could create and edit these rules from the
phone. Of course, it would only be for iCloud, which makes it
problematic to introduce the feature since people have a variety of
different email providers.
Currently, I can assign emails to the junk folder, but it doesn't
update my rules on iCloud.com or seem to have any effect on preventing
similar junk mail in the future. Even if they just sent a message to
Apple's servers whenever you use the "move to junk folder" feature -
that would be something...
Matthew
On Oct 8, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Dave Schroeder wrote:
Do you receive phone calls multiple places to the same number other
than on your iPhone?
Do you receive your email in multiple places to the same address
other than on your iPhone?
"Email address blocking" and "phone number blocking" are not
analogous things, with the former being such an obvious addition. In
a situation where you may have many clients (web, mobile(s),
desktop(s), etc.) this is not something appropriate for the client,
but rather for the server. You only receive phone calls in one place.
Yes, it has been included in mail clients over the years, but falls
down when you need that capability in multiple places, because there
is no "standard", per se, for email filtering. Email blocking/
filtering/sorting/spam protection/etc. is most effectively
implemented on the server side of your email service of choice.
(And yes, I am aware of clients which offer this functionality
exclusively on the client side, but unless that is your ONLY client
and/or are willing to devote SIGNIFICANT amounts of time to
duplicating your rules across clients, it doesn't make sense. There
are very few people who use a mobile as their primary/only email
device.)
- Dave
On Oct 8, 2013, at 12:39 PM, "Villano, Paul A CIV USARMY TRADOC
(US)" <email@hidden> wrote:
The same reason Apple allows blocking calls while it could be done
by AT&T or Verizon as well. Or why Apple adds (fairly useless)
photo filters when Photoshop app does it. And on and on. It's part
of the consumer experience which should be important to Apple.
It's sounding as if your argument is not so much "we can't" but
"we didn't/won't bother." As with the call blocking, it would make
sense.
-----Original Message-----
From: fed-talk-bounces+paul.a.villano.civ=email@hidden [mailto:fed-talk-bounces+paul.a.villano.civ=email@hidden
] On Behalf Of Dave Schroeder
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 1:35 PM
To: Amy Forinash
Cc: email@hidden
Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Blocking Email Addresses
I'm aware of the general filtering capabilities of email clients.
Why should a mobile email client offer the ability to "block" email
addresses?
- Dave
On Oct 8, 2013, at 11:18 AM, Amy Forinash <email@hidden>
wrote:
Email filtering has been available for years for relatively small
email apps such as pine. I'm pretty sure the iPhone I carry in my
pocket is a more powerful computer than the Ultrix machine I used
in the early 90s. Why should my mobile email app not allow me to
filter or block as I wish? I do think it makes sense to implement.
-amy
On Oct 8, 2013, at 9:42 AM, Dave Schroeder <email@hidden>
wrote:
"Email blocking"? That's not something that makes sense to
implement in a lightweight mobile email client on any mobile OS.
Better to use an email provider which allows *server*-side
filtering, blocking, spam rejection, etc.
- Dave
On Oct 8, 2013, at 8:22 AM, "Villano, Paul A CIV USARMY TRADOC
(US)" <email@hidden> wrote:
I was very happy to see iOS7 finally added call blocking (though
like insects, telemarketers will just find another way to get at
you). But I’m surprised there’s no email blocking yet. I hope
it’s in the next update (as well as putting the fonts back where
low vision folks can use them more easily again).
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