Finally managed to solve my iPhone email spam problem. I’m using Google’s powerful spam filters to catch the hundreds of spam emails I receive daily. How did I do it? I’ll show you in the step by step guide below. Here it comes:

1. Things you need – Google mail account that no one knows (create a brand new one for best results), your website hosting account details ( you need to be able to login in your hosting account control panel as an administrator, because you will be required to forward oncoming emails), your current POP 3 account credentials.

2. Login into your hosting account and forward all mail coming to your email address (yourname@yourdomain.com) to your Gmail account.

3. On Gmail go to Settings and click on Accounts. Edit the “Send Mail as:” information with the information you want to appear in the From field in all outgoing messages. Click on Add Another Email Address and put your own email address (yourname@yourdomain.com). Click on Next Step and Google will require verification that you really own rhis new email address. Click on “Send Verification” and then check your email. Click on the verification link in the email from Google.

4. On your iPhone fo to Settings/Mail, Contacts, Calendars/ Add mail account. Do not tap on the Gmail ready made account but tap on Other.

5. Put you preferred account name ( this is the name that will appear in the From field on the recepients email client), your email address e.g. yourname@yourdomain.com and an optional description. I just left it blank.

6. On the next screen of details choose IMAP as the type of account, put incoming mail server imap.gmail.com and your gmail account username (without @gmail.com) and gmail password.

7. Your smtp mail server is your hosting provider’s mail server and in most cases when you have a shared or dedicated hosting account it is mail.yourdomain.com. You can get those details from your Outlook email account settings or ask your hosting/ISP for their smtp server a username and password for it. In my case I used mail.mydomain.com as my smtp server. In the username and password fields I put my current POP3 email account username and password (not your Gmail username and password).
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8. Tap on Save. Wait for a minute or two (be patient and wait – you are doing the right thing). You will see a message asking you whether you want to continue without iPhone using SSL. Tap Yes. You will see a second similar message – tap Yes again (or Continue – can’t remember which one exactly it was).

Voilà! Job done. Now you have Google’s most advanced technology to kill the spam for you. All emails sent to yourname@yourdomain.com will be downloaded to your iPhone spam free. When you tap on the account name in iPhone email you will see your iPhone Inbox and Sent Items folders as well as all folders from your Gmail account. Bear in mind that all mail that you send will be stored only on your iPhone.