Sunday, October 21, 2007

SPAM FREE LIFE - gmail tips,tricks

This is for people who read their Forum messages on Gmail.com. Yahoo and Hotmail might have a similar situation. Telling Gmail.com that somemessages from 'particular senders' are Junk will also improve thesituation.Spam cannot be reduced to zero even with sophisticated solutions. Some of you may not know that this is available on the Gmail.comserver.The stuff below is a 'free' solution at Gmail.com.
1. Go to Gmail.com (login etc)
2. Right besides the search bar is the "Create a filter".
3. Click on it and start setting filters as you need it.
4. Best is to put in words like "Lotto" without the "" in the 'Has the words' field.(also for lotto,Viagra,Claim info etc)
5. Type in Next and then check the Delete box and click Create filter.
6. Keep adding more over time.
7. You can also delete the email ids of people that you think sendBakwas stuff
8. And, this should cut down your email.
9. The more filters you set, the less non-critical email you will have.
Then from another account send an email to yourself with these words,and test it out. Check your Trash folder and you will see thetest-junk-mail you sent to yourself.

WISH YOU A HAPPY SPAM FREE LIFE.

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