Spam Reporting For Mobile Clients is a Must

gmail-webYesterday I was lamenting the apparent rise in spam making its way to my email inboxes. I’m still not sure of the cause because generally, my two Gmail accounts have been rock-solid in terms of blocking spam messages. Perhaps the spammers have new techniques? A comment from Dutchman indicated that Google is aware of some recent issue on the spam front, so there’s hope on the horizon.

This morning I had 13 new messages in my personal Gmail account and seven were spam that didn’t get caught. After some thought, I realized that I may have been causing at least some of my issues. Roughly half of all my mail is read on my Apple iPhone. Guess what the mail client is missing on that device? There’s no way to report spam! Now I generally delete email prior to reading if it looks like spam, but sometimes, I do open these messages just to be sure. Could I have been inadvertently training Google that these messages actually aren’t spam?

Apple should definitely address this gap in an updated client, in my opinion. In fact, it was only last month when Google updated their own mobile web client to offer advanced menu options. I see the “Report Spam” in there now, but I don’t think it was there until the most recent update. Until Apple adds a spam reporting mechanism to their iPhone client, I may have to use Gmail on the web with my handset. After all, when I’m mobile, I tend to have more distractions and less time to be productive. I don’t need further time-wasters like gobs of spam showing up on my handset’s inbox.

Does your mobile mail client offer a way to report spam?

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