Spam mail, or unsolicited bulk e-mail is infuriating. They force advertising on you, misusing a service, your email account, that you already paid for.
Many of us may get thousands of spam messages a day. So, it’s not surprising that people need relief — they want to do whatever they can to stop spam mail.
Is it possible to stop spam mail? Probably not — but you can significantly reduce it.
Spam Blocking Features
Your webmail or e-mail program probably has simple spam blocking features already. For example, e-mail programs like Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express have filtering options which you can use to divert spam into a separate folder. Eudora even allows you to delete spam before you download it which can save valuable time online
At hotmail webmail service a quarantine folder can be set up to separate automatically what it believes as spam from the rest of your inbox, until you get a chance to check it.
You may need to turn these features on. Have a look for the pages on ’spam’ or ‘junk mail’ in the help section of your mail program or webmail service.
Anti-Spam programs
If your e-mail program or webmail service can’t deal with the spam you could try a dedicated anti-spam program. These automatically junk e-mail that they suspect, conveniently enough, to be junk e-mail.
The best anti-spam programs work great out of the box but also allow a good amount of flexibility and configuration. They are easy to set up and efficient at pointing and deleting unwanted, unsolicited mail. SpamShield from PCSecurityShield is one anti spam program which does this.
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