Clean up your inbox with our tips to stop receiving spam in your email.
We are going to give you a series of Tips to receive less junk emails and SPAM in your email account. These are tips that will require a little patience when carrying them out, and spending some time managing your email account. However, they can help you a lot to eliminate all that noise from your email.
The advice that we are going to give you is not infallible, but it will help you stop receiving the majority of unwanted emails that you receive and start tidying up your inbox. So, even if you’ve never faced trying to clean your email, these tips will help you.
And as we always say at Xataka Basics, if you consider that we have left some very useful advice unmentioned, we invite you to leave it in the comments section so that the rest of the readers can benefit from your knowledge and that of our community of xatakeros.
Pros and cons of marking as spam
One of the first ideas that may come to mind is to simply mark the emails that you do not want to receive as Spam. That’s what the option and the folder are for, you mark them as such and they are automatically deleted several days after receiving them.
But in the end, this is like sweeping dirt under the rug. It may be enough for many, but for others it can still be annoying to see hundreds of spam emails piling up. Especially when you use third-party email clients, because they will not always hide spam well.
Therefore, on the one hand it is true that doing this will help you, especially at the beginning. You can always use the spam folder as a quarantine, selecting many emails and marking them as advertising, and then if you want to apply the rest of the tips on them. But the other steps we are going to give you will help you not even need to do this.
Look for the unsubscribe button
Nowadays, many recurring emails you receive will have a link to unsubscribe from them. This link is usually found mainly in advertising emails or newsletters, and appears very small at the bottom of the email, right at the end.
These added buttons can have different names, such as unsubscribe, cancel your subscription, manage your subscriptions, unsubscribe, cancel subscription, manage your preferences or similar. But they all serve the same purpose, and when you click on them they either unsubscribe you directly from receiving emails or they take you to a page to do so.
Therefore, the first task is unsubscribe from all emails you can. Yes, it is a boring and monotonous task, and it can be very overwhelming. But you can check the last ones received, and unsubscribe in order first and then as you receive them.
You will not always receive emails to which you have subscribed, and many times you will but you will not remember that you have subscribed, since perhaps you did so by checking a button when registering for a third-party service or this social network. There are some platforms to automate this process, but it is best not to give many services access to your email and do it by hand.
Some clients have an unsubscribe button
If you log into Gmail, hovering your mouse over a promotional or advertising email may you see a button Drop out. This is related to the previous point, because there are email clients that are already natively offering this option to make your task easier.
Many times this is effective, but other times it may not, because sometimes the email client will simply send the request to the sender of the email, and they will not always pay attention. It all depends on the automations and how everything works.
You have to be honest with the newsletters
The newsletters have been with us for years, and they are still in great shape. When you register on a website or online store, it will ask you if you want one. You can also register for many services, and there are even some where you register in exchange for discounts. Not to mention newsletters in blog formatwhich are also popular and there are many very interesting ones.
But in the end, having registration in many of them also means generating a lot of noise in your email. Therefore, it is best to exercise honesty and also delete your registration in all those that you do not usually read really. This way, you will also be reducing the number of emails that you do not read but receive.
Here, the advice is to make decisions as the newsletters arrive. When you get one in the mail, if your impulse is not to open it, you may not need to receive it. And if you plan on reading it later, make sure it’s that way and it doesn’t just end up taking up space.
Delete user accounts you no longer use
Many of the emails you receive will be from services in which you have a user account. That is why from time to time it is useful to consider Which of these services you no longer need?and directly proceed to delete your user accounts from them.
Doing this is not only good for your peace of mind when receiving emails and keeping your digital life organized. It is also positive for taking care of your privacy, because the fewer accounts that you do not use you maintain, the less chance you have that some of the always constant massive data leaks will affect one of them.
In fact, when a massive data breach occurs, many cybercriminals can use your email to subscribe to spam or your email and password to try to steal accounts from other services in which you have been careless enough to repeat your password. Something interesting if this worries you is to go to haveibeenpwned.com and write down your emails to find out how many massive leaks they have appeared in.
Block sender as a drastic measure
If there are some senders with whom all the steps we have taken do not work for you, a drastic measure is block them from email so that you cannot directly receive more of them. This option is available in many email clients, including native Gmail and Outlook.
Have patience and perseverance
The most important thing when applying the advice we have given you is that you have patience, and do it at your own pace. There will be people who want to manage everything at once and spend several minutes or an hour or two doing it, but if this overwhelms you too much, you can do it little by little as you receive new emails.
It is also important to be consistent. Because at one point you may start to have your email address quite clean and clear, but our data is always traveling around the Internet, and new types of advertising emails can always begin to reach you without you having asked for it or after registering on new sites. . Therefore, if you stop doing some of these things they can end up accumulating again.
With this, I am not going to guarantee that you will stop receiving spam emails forever, unfortunately that is impossible today. But if you will have your inbox clear, and you will no longer receive so many unnecessary emails. And then, keeping the new advertising emails that come to you at bay is faster than managing everything for the first time.
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