Spam filter

[godreborn]

What's a good spam filter for email on an android phone?

 

[Plazorn]

What's a good spam filter for email on an android phone?

I have heard good things about Spamdrain, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=se.trillian.upskido.android&hl=en_US&gl=US

 

[godreborn]

thanks, but I uninstalled it when it was asking for my password. that seems fishy to me.

 

[Jack_Hoff]

thanks, but I uninstalled it when it was asking for my password. that seems fishy to me.

How do you expect it to filter spam on your account if you don't link your account?

 

[godreborn]

would I have to go through spamdrain to check my email rather than the gmail app? or will it be linked to the gmail app? I don't want to go through another app if possible. I was actually hoping for a plugin or something that works with gmail.

 

[Gamemaster1379]

would I have to go through spamdrain to check my email rather than the gmail app? or will it be linked to the gmail app? I don't want to go through another app if possible. I was actually hoping for a plugin or something that works with gmail.

That wouldn't work that way. The Gmail app on Android isn't extensible with plugins. At that point, it'd make more sense to just have some web or third party service filter the emails themselves from GMail and not make the client (app) responsible for it (be it Gmail or some third party app).

If you're determined to have the Android app do it and don't want to give your actual password, you'd want to use something that uses some type of OAuth login, which basically has you sign in through Google and it grants the app "access" (you never give your password to the app to sign in for you, you just tell Google to authorize it, so Google continues to manage your password).

 

[godreborn]

That wouldn't work that way. The Gmail app on Android isn't extensible with plugins. At that point, it'd make more sense to just have some web or third party service filter the emails themselves from GMail and not make the client (app) responsible for it (be it Gmail or some third party app).

If you're determined to have the Android app do it and don't want to give your actual password, you'd want to use something that uses some type of OAuth login, which basically has you sign in through Google and it grants the app "access" (you never give your password to the app to sign in for you, you just tell Google to authorize it, so Google continues to manage your password).

do you know of a good filtering app? and, it would be filtered before it hit the gmail app?

 

[Gamemaster1379]

do you know of a good filtering app? and, it would be filtered before it hit the gmail app?

It won't ever filter before hitting Gmail. At most, it'll filter just after it comes into Gmail, but before it gets to you.

I don't know of any such services. Typically speaking, Google itself uses algorithms to build in spam detection. Beyond Google's systems, you can set up keywords to auto delete/archive messages that meet criteria you set up for it.

 

[godreborn]

not all of my emails are gmail though.