The SPAM filter for GMail is currently engaged in a losing battle. I am doing some ANTI-SPAM testing. For the past four months, I have made extensive use of my Gmail email address in a variety of public contexts, including signing up for newsletters, using it on forms, and sharing it publicly on online discussion boards, blogs, and forums. I was prepared to be inundated with SPAM, and that is exactly what is starting to happen to me now. About twenty spam emails are delivered to my inbox each and every day. I am aware that this is a negligible amount; however, for someone who is accustomed to having no spam arrive in their inbox, this is quite a lot.
When I did some testing similar to this with Yahoo! Mail in the past, I made sure to delete all of my junk e-mail before I began (from coming into the inbox). I'll let you in on my little secret.
1. To begin, you must have three different email addresses, one each with the following extensions:.hotmail,.yahoo, and.gmail. Your public (personal) email address, your business email address, and your spam catcher email address should each be represented by one of these three email addresses. It is important to keep in mind that the less you utilize your email address in public, the less SPAM you will get.
2. If you plan to use a public or business email address, you should read the privacy policies of each website you visit (especially if you intend to or are required to publish your email address) before using such addresses. You are not required to thoroughly read the policy; rather, you may just thumb through it to get an idea of how they feel about information sharing in general. Be wary and presume that this website intends to disclose your information if the policy does not include this provision, or if the website does not have a Privacy Policy (that can be easily accessed by a link on the site). There are many websites that pretend to be legitimate and have a privacy policy in place, but behind the scenes, they sell your information. Because of this, you should never put all of your confidence in the privacy policy; rather, you should simply use common sense. Your amount of SPAM is reduced to a minimum and you are securely managing your email address, so the best part about managing your SPAM is that you can speculate how someone got your email address, because you are managing your email address securely. In any circumstance in which you are required to enter your email address, but you have reservations about using your personal or professional email address, you should instead use your spam catcher email address.
3. You should only use your public (personal) email address for public sources that can be trusted, such as discussion boards and forums that you participate in frequently. You should only use this address on websites that you have complete faith in and that you access on a regular basis or occasionally. In order to sign up for things, sign-up forms need to have your public email address (only sites you want information from). In addition, your public email address should be used to subscribe people to newsletters that you create and send out. Your public (personal) email address should be the one that you use the most frequently for day-to-day communication, including the most fundamental tasks. This is the email address that you should give out to members of your family, friends, and even people you work with.
4. Only use your business email address when communicating with other business professionals. In point of fact, the email address you use for your company should NOT be a free email address; rather, it should be an email address that includes either your company name, your website name, or both (for instance, @.yourcompanyname.com). If you do not have a company, business, or website, then you should use a free email address and make this email address your primary email address for use in professional contexts. For example, you could put this email address on your resume or use it in other professional contexts. This should only be done for sources that are extremely reliable. You should never give out your business email address to anyone other than people with whom you have established a one-on-one professional or commercial connection. Example: You shouldn't give this email address to the employees who handle customer service inquiries at a company, but you should give it to the CEO of that company. This email address is reserved only for your use. It may be OK for you to provide the customer support employees with your company email address on occasion; nevertheless, you should be sure that the source can be trusted, and you should use sound judgment. Consider the following scenario: the corporation intends to give you private information, such as account details for a money market account, through email. You may sign up for a very reputable and trustworthy website that accepts payment cards by using the email address associated with your company. This website is known all over the globe. You should only communicate through this email address with people whom you trust to keep your information private and who you believe will not send you unsolicited adverts or share it with others. This email address should only be used for receiving company-related information or information that directly impacts you or your firm on a consumer or corporate level. Your company's e-mail address should under never circumstances be made public on any website, forum, or discussion board, or in any other kind of publicly accessible media.
5. Your email address for the spam catcher is the email address you should use if you have doubts, when you do not trust a website, or when a website does not give you with the information that you want to receive. As a result of the fact that many websites offer goods, programs, or services that you are interested in purchasing, but in order to register or proceed further, you are required to enter an email address (and the vast majority of the time, the email address must be valid and confirmed), you should have a spam catcher email address for use with non-reliable sources. You might simply register at any site while using a genuine email address by using the email address associated with your spam catcher, which is an email account into which you can log in and verify the legitimacy of the email addresses.
6. Make use of the "Report Spam" tool that is included in your email client software. The majority of email programs, both online and those that can be downloaded and installed locally, have a 'Report Spam' button that, when clicked, prevents the sender from having any further messages sent. Because it will assist in keeping your inbox clear of unsolicited messages, it is essential to make effective use of this tool as often as possible. Your personal email address and your business email address are the only email addresses you should be concerned about receiving spam from. Your spam catcher email address should not be an account that you log into on a daily basis; rather, you should only log into your spam catcher email address when you need to confirm an email. If you have followed the procedures outlined above, at this time you should not be receiving any spam into the account associated with your business email address; but, if you do, be sure to make use of the 'Report Spam' function so that you may prohibit any future delivery of spam. When you do get spam, be sure to promptly report it by using the "Report Spam" button. This will ensure that there is no delay in the process and that you do not overlook any spam messages. In your personal email address account, you will most likely receive spam messages or other unwanted mail. If this is the case, make sure to use the 'Report Spam' feature each time you receive a piece of unwanted mail. After a few months of good email address management (following the steps outlined above), you should never or rarely see any spam coming into your inbox.
If you get any messages in your inbox, then you need to make sure that you utilize the "Report Spam" option that is included in your email client. This ought to quickly get rid of any unwanted mail that you have been receiving. It is very necessary to carry out the actions outlined above in order to have a clean and organized inbox. You are ultimately responsible for managing your email account, and you need to be aware of the people with whom you disclose information about yourself. Although the majority of individuals only use one email account for all of their correspondence, this strategy is not the most effective choice. Following the processes outlined above, you need to utilize at least three different email addresses. It is possible for you to simply enter into one account, either your personal email address or your work email address, and then have the email from the other account forwarded to the account that you log into the most often. You may also send emails from the account using either your personal or your business email address, depending on which you want. In the three most popular online email applications, establishing forwarders and multiple sender accounts is a simple and straightforward process. In some cases, additional steps might need to be taken. For example, if you want to forward your email through Yahoo!, you will need a paid account. On the other hand, if you use Gmail, you can automatically forward your email to any location of your choosing for no additional cost. Therefore, if you configure multiple accounts within your Yahoo! account and forward the emails from your Gmail account to your Yahoo! account, then you will be in a good position. Use the account you have with Hotmail to filter out unwanted messages. This is merely a suggestion, but obviously you can organize it however you see fit; it's entirely up to you. At the moment, I make use of the email address associated with my paid Yahoo! account, which I then forward to my business email address. My primary email service is provided by Google's Gmail, while the spam that gets through is collected in my Hotmail inbox. My emails from Yahoo! are automatically forwarded to my Gmail account, and I have a sender account configured in my Gmail account so that it will send messages using my Yahoo! email address. Because I make use of Gmail Notify, I am always aware whenever I have received new correspondence at either my public (personal) or my professional email address. I only sign into my Hotmail account when I need to confirm an email or to make sure that my account doesn't get closed because I haven't used it in a while. This preventative method has enabled me to maintain a clutter-free inbox for many years, and I am confident that it will be of use to you in the fight against SPAM!