How to manage your emailsTips and tricks

Use FoldersFolders are used to manage files in your hard disk drive. Similarly you can create folders in your email account to manage your emails easily. Important emails can be moved to other folders which you can make to classify or categorize your emails according to their use. Hotmail and yahoo! Allows users to create folders.

Click here to add a folderWrite a folder name and press OKYahoo Mail !

Folder created

Use FiltersFilters are used for 2 purposesTo manage emails in folders automatically

To protect your email account from spam

Manage emails automatically Filters can automatically receive and categorize your emails in different folders.For example , you have subscribed a newsletter and you dont want to receive its emails to your inbox , but you are interested to receive its emails in another folder , so that you can see them in your free time , you can use filters for that purposeYour inbox should only show your important personal emails. Newsletters , reminders and offers should be send to other folders

Protection from spam / Bulk emailsFilters can also save you from spam and bulk emailsYou can notice that bulk and spam emails contains subjects in which some common words are used , for example free, join , sex and porn , medicine , offer , congratulations and win etc etc

How to create filterFilter is actually a condition in which you can decide that when this type of email is received it should be placed in that folder.

To create a filter in yahoo emailGo to mail options

Open Filters hyperlink

Click on add filter

Give a discriptive name to the filterSelect ConditionChoose on which part of the email you want to apply the filter , for example , we have applied filter on the subject of the mailAnd in the end , you will choose that where (or in which folder) the emails should be placed after getting filteredWe have made a filter with the name nidokidosIt works on subject , if the subject will contain the word [nidokidos] then it will filter that email and send it to the folder which we will selectWe have selected a folder nidokidos to place these kind of filtered emails , similarly you can create 15 filters in yahoo

Filter added successfully

SimilarlyYou can create filters to catch and trash spamYou can create filters for your friends forwards and place them in some appropriate folder

Creating filter in hotmailHotmail also supports filters , open hotmail options

Open mail link

Open filters Click on new filter

And create a filter

Junk email filter in hotmailSet you junk email filter to exclusive , so that you can receive emails from only those people who are added in your address book

Spam protection in yahooYahoo also provides spam protection , Turn SpamGuard on always.

For gmail usersGmail dont have folders in it . They say that we dont like to make folders , dont manage mails , just search them Gmail also have filters and spam protection, see your gmail setting

Protect email addressesDont forward chain letters without removing hundreds of email addresses from themDont forward emails to your friends using CC: . Instead of CC: always use BCC:Using BCC will forward your emails without forwarding email address lists of your friends and family members

Write your own address in TO field.Write your friends addresses in BCCBy doing so , you will receive a copy of your email back to you and your friends will also receive a copy of your email without any problem. Email addresses are not distributed to all the email list by doing so.

Protect email addressesDont fill out websites forms un-necessarily with your emails addressA lot of greeting card websites collect email address for spamming. You should be aware of such websitesNever ever reply spam or junk email. Replying spammers confirms them that their target email address really exists.

Protect email addressesDont try to unsubscribe spammers. When you try to unsubscribe a website which is spamming on your email address , because it again confirms the existence of your email id.

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Open nidokidos websitehttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/nidokidos/joinSign in with your yahoo id

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