Completely eliminating SPAM and Junk Mail is not easy. However, you can reduce the amount garbage you have to look at significantly if you know how.
How to Reduce SPAM!
Remember when your email was new and the only messages you received were from people you knew and were interested in hearing from? Overtime that simple email address you use starts to become known to more and more people and unfortunately, more and more companies, more and more services, and ultimately more and more spammers!
Nowadays, if your email is like mine (one I got some 8 years ago) you not only get a lot of important emails, but you get a ton of stuff you have little or no use for. Some of it is legitimate like offers from Amazon or EBay that you actually signed up for (but really could do without). We'll call this stuff Junk Mail because; "you asked for it, you got it, Toyota" (with all due respect to that fine automobile). And then there's the stuff that comes to you from who knows where with questionable offers for Canadian pharmaceuticals and other stuff you never wanted or asked for. AKA SPAM.
Completely eliminating SPAM and Junk Mail is not easy and may be impossible without filtering out the messages you want. However, you can reduce the amount garbage you have to look at significantly if you know how to setup your Outlook or Apple email clients SPAM/Junk filter and/or use a third party filter like SPAM Fighter or Mail Washer. I've done it both ways and together my inbox is fairly clean while my junk mail folder is stuffed full of SPAM. When you do get SPAM filtering set up, one thing to do on a regular basis to peruse through that junk folder and make sure there aren't any good emails in there!
One thing to be aware of is that getting your SPAM filter working as you might expect (that is, hardly any SPAM at all and just good emails coming through) is an repetitive process that can take weeks. You have to set it up initially and then keep teaching it what SPAM is by flagging the SPAM messages that get through as SPAM. You have to be persistent and diligent about this and eventually your SPAM will be reduced to practically nothing at all.
Rather than go into details here on how to set up filtering of SPAM and Junk, I'll refer you to a couple good tutorials on the subject so I don't repeat what's already been written about many times.
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Do you know why numerous annoying emails you did not want are called SPAM? It all comes from a skit done by Monty Python in 1970. If you like Monty Python, you'll love the skit, if you don't, well you might be better entertained by reading your SPAM, SPAM, SPAM...
