Despite an Automatic Spam box in Gmail i always wonders that which websites sends spam to us , or in other words which websites hadover our personal emails to the spammers.
So few days ago i found it from some blogs (It is not my discovery but abstract from diff. diff blogs)There are several ways with the help of which we can fight more efficiently against Spam >>
~!~ If you didn’t already know, Gmail does not really look at dots in your account name when processing email. So for example, I could write out an email address as the.dark.dragon@gmail.com instead of the normal thedarkdragon@gmail.com. Pretty neat eh?
You can add as many dots as you like and it won’t matter, you’ll still get the email. So what’s the point of this if the email is still coming to your Inbox? Filters! You can give out an email address with dots in it and then setup a filter later on to have it automatically archived or deleted, if it ends up being very spammy.
If you’re part of many email groups, etc, you can use this to automatically filter out those emails from your Inbox, so it’s not cluttered up. It’s always safer to give out an email address that’s slightly different than your normal one in case spammers get hold of it later and start sending you crap loads of email.
~!~ To Sort out your mails according to the websites Simply place a “+” after your account name and add words to uniquely identify that email address, so you can again create filters, etc.
For example, I can change my email address to thedarkdragon+Amazon@gmail.com when signing up at Amazon.com. Now I can create a filter and have it automatically labeled whenever I buy something from there. Amazon is safe, but if you’re signing up for a free game download or free music download, etc, you might want to do something like this in case they give your email out to third parties.
The plus hack is useful, but it sometimes might not be allowed since it’s not a normal symbol in an email. In that case, use the Dot hack or the Googlemail hack I’m about to mention.
In Simple words youremail@gmail.com or youremail+spamsite@gmail.com is same and both will reach to yor inbox but when you get mail on +spamsite then you can easily identify that this is actual spammer
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