Avoid Spam in GMAIL - lets keep the inbox clean

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  Kaustubh Katdare

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

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

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

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

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

  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

  suyash

  Avoid Spam in GMAIL - lets keep the inbox clean
  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.......😛