Avoid Spam in GMAIL - lets keep the inbox clean

suyash

suyash

@suyash-2N6gPP • Oct 26, 2024
<a href="https://maverick-blogger.blogspot.com/2007/06/avoid-spam-in-gmail-lets-keep-inbox.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Avoid Spam in GMAIL - lets keep the inbox clean</a>

Are you worried about spam in your precious gmail account ?

Its been a quite a time since I've been a victim of spam in my gmail account and was tired of deleting tons of emails everyday - so I thought...enough is enough. Finally I found this smart way to get my inbox clean !

If you want to get a spam free inbox, then you would like to consider making aliases of your gmail id to use when you're not sure whether you're signing up for something safe or not.

It is a very simple task to provide an alias of your gmail id. Whenever you sign up on the internet on some site that you think may not be safe(or a site which might send you spam),all you have to do is give out the email address as username+insertanythingyouwanthere@gmail.com

For example if your email id is #-Link-Snipped-#,you can provide james+21@gmail.com or james+test@gmail.com .You can put anything after the + and all email sent will still go to your gmail account.

In the event that you did give your email to a spammer and you start receiving spam, don't worry! Just create a filter, and make everything that is sent to username+whateveryouputhere@gmail.com go to the trash. This way all the spam that you might get will automatically be deleted.

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  • Kaustubh Katdare

    Kaustubh Katdare

    @thebigk • Jun 30, 2007

    Of course, the article is useful. Lot of people do not know how to create filters. Although it is a very simple task in Gmail 😀. Probably I'll post a how-to soon.

    Similarly, while posting your email address on forums/websites, post them in a format that won't be recognized by the bots. For example, if your address is #-Link-Snipped-# , writing it as james (at) gmail (dot) com will do the job.

    -The Big K-
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  • Ashraf HZ

    Ashraf HZ

    @Ash • Jul 13, 2007

    hey thanks, great tip! Is there a way to create folders too? I put so many labels that my inbox is a rainbow of mess. Can't I filter a specific type of mail into a specific location A la Yahoo! Mail style? Like.. away from the inbox.
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  • hussainv1

    hussainv1

    @hussainv1-xyQrA7 • Aug 11, 2007

    Wow! this idea sounds really good..i think this is for new sign ups..maybe im right..but already i have loadsa spam in my inbox and spam folder of my gmail account.how can i stop these spam and direct them automatically into trash.??
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  • weirdgeek

    weirdgeek

    @weirdgeek-ZAPtSA • Jan 3, 2009

    First of all we have to know why we get spam then we can think of how to prevent spam a small research shows that spammers uses some algorithm which is discussed in below link


    #-Link-Snipped-#
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  • aashima

    aashima

    @aashima-eO93l9 • Jan 3, 2009

    ash
    hey thanks, great tip! Is there a way to create folders too? I put so many labels that my inbox is a rainbow of mess. Can't I filter a specific type of mail into a specific location A la Yahoo! Mail style? Like.. away from the inbox.
    Labels are more or less kind of folders only. In fact I find them better than folders. Just select all your labeled mails and click on the "Archive" button on top left side of the inbox. The mails will no longer appear in the inbox. You can see them either through "All Mail" or clicking on the respective label name to which it belongs. Label list appears below the gmail chat feature.
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  • thiliban.v

    thiliban.v

    @thilibanv-i8CIIb • Sep 23, 2009

    nice it`s really usefull>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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  • lal

    lal

    @lal-R60Xjx • Sep 23, 2009

    That was really useful. I didnt know it earlier.
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  • fake_lover01

    fake_lover01

    @fake-lover01-uUwhAc • Sep 24, 2009

    But after changing my email like you told do i will receive my mails😕
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  • lovejeet

    lovejeet

    @lovejeet-etHdkD • Nov 16, 2010

    how to create the filters??? please give details..............
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  • think

    think

    @think-thXbHp • Nov 16, 2010

    i knew how to create aliases but i don't think that adding a + sign to your id and adding anything to it will then forward the mail to ur id.. please somebody cross check this feature
    eg consider a person having a mail id #-Link-Snipped-# now maybe another user might have the id as #-Link-Snipped-# ??
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  • Deepika Bansal

    Deepika Bansal

    @deepika-jf1ysv • Nov 20, 2010

    suyash
    <a href="https://maverick-blogger.blogspot.com/2007/06/avoid-spam-in-gmail-lets-keep-inbox.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Avoid Spam in GMAIL - lets keep the inbox clean</a>
    Whenever you sign up on the internet on some site that you think may not be safe(or a site which might send you spam),all you have to do is give out the email address as #-Link-Snipped-#

    For example if your email id is #-Link-Snipped-#,you can provide #-Link-Snipped-# or #-Link-Snipped-# .You can put anything after the + and all email sent will still go to your gmail account.
    That was of great help.....But can you please tell me how it really works.......??
    Because being an ENGINEER, i think we should know what and how exactly things are being done.......😛
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