Does marking mail as "junk" in iPad Mail actually do anything?

For a long time now, I have been using the iPad Mail facility to mark spam emails as "junk".
However, I'm not seeing any different behavior.  The same old spam sources are sending me the same old emails which land in my inbox.
After over a year or two of using the Junk marker, I'm thinking it's a placebo.  Am I wrong?

A lot of it depends on your mail provider. Usually they have to block junk mail at the server - however the junkers are rather ingenious. For example they spoof addresses, or make up one, usually gibberish like mworfhwoeihfowafnowanfwoei@ and then send their junk out and abandon the account, so blocking it is really a waste.
YOu may not want to continue marking at the iPad level but access your mail provider via safari, for example, for me I'd use safari to go to yahoo.com and mark it as spam there. Might help with some of it. Then again, junkers have been sending stuff out unimpeeded for years now. Short of abandoning your account there's really no way to stop it all.

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