Get Rid of Spam With Filters
Do you get a lot of spam? You don't need to continuously put up with it; there are some steps you can take to get spam out of your inbox and your life.
The Power of Filters
You can create a whitelist filter. This means that you use the filtering options in your email to create filters that whitelist all your important emails, keeping them in your inbox, while delivering all other emails into a less important folder. Then you can check those folders once you have time to see what is coming in and if it is important or not.
A More Subtle Serving of Spam
Have you heard of bacn? It is a far more subtle type of spam compared to the discount Rolex emails. These are typically things you have opted into such as catalogs and coupons from stores you frequent. But, while you opted in at some point, you may not want to receive these anymore.
You can easily stop these newsletters from filling your inbox, though, by creating a filter that conveniently sequesters email messages with the word "unsubscribe" in it. This is effective because email newsletters must give users the opportunity to unsubscribe from them. Therefore, they all must include the word "unsubscribe" somewhere within their messages. Of course, you can manually unsubscribe from email newsletters, too. However, this will take more time and energy.
These two basic steps will help clear your inbox of its spam and they'll certainly make you a more productive computer user. So before you spend the next 30 minutes deleting the spam or bacn from your inbox, be sure to set up the filters that will ensure that your most important messages stay a priority.