How to manage your s Tips and tricks

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

Click here to add a folder Write a folder name and press OK Yahoo Mail !

Folder created

Use Filters Filters are used for 2 purposes 1. To manage s in folders automatically 2. To protect your account from spam

Manage s automatically Filters can automatically receive and categorize your s in different folders. For example, you have subscribed a newsletter and you don’t want to receive its s to your inbox, but you are interested to receive its s in another folder, so that you can see them in your free time, you can use filters for that purpose Your inbox should only show your important personal s. Newsletters, reminders and offers should be send to other folders

Protection from spam / Bulk s Filters can also save you from spam and bulk s You can notice that bulk and spam s 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 filter Filter is actually a condition in which you can decide that when this type of is received it should be placed in that folder.

To create a filter in yahoo Go to mail options

Open “Filters” hyperlink

Click on add filter

Give a discriptive name to the filter Select Condition Choose on which part of the you want to apply the filter, for example, we have applied filter on the subject of the mail And in the end, you will choose that where (or in which folder) the s should be placed after getting filtered We have made a filter with the name “nidokidos” It works on subject, if the subject will contain the word “[nidokidos]” then it will filter that and send it to the folder which we will select We have selected a folder “nidokidos” to place these kind of filtered s, similarly you can create 15 filters in yahoo

Filter added successfully

Similarly You can create filters to catch and trash spam You can create filters for your friends forwards and place them in some appropriate folder

Creating filter in hotmail Hotmail also supports filters, open hotmail options

Open mail link

Open filters Click on new filter

And create a filter

Junk filter in hotmail Set you junk filter to exclusive, so that you can receive s from only those people who are added in your address book

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

For gmail users Gmail don’t have folders in it. They say that we don’t like to make folders, don’t manage mails, just search them Gmail also have filters and spam protection, see your gmail setting

Protect addresses Don’t forward chain letters without removing hundreds of addresses from them Don’t forward s to your friends using CC:. Instead of CC: always use BCC: Using BCC will forward your s without forwarding address lists of your friends and family members

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

Protect addresses Don’t fill out websites forms un- necessarily with your s address A lot of greeting card websites collect address for spamming. You should be aware of such websites Never ever reply spam or junk . Replying spammers confirms them that their target address really exists.

Protect addresses Don’t try to unsubscribe spammers. When you try to unsubscribe a website which is spamming on your address, because it again confirms the existence of your id.

To get nidokidos membership 1- Stay Kool

For Yahoo Users Open nidokidos website Sign in with your yahoo id

Select individual s Only – selecting any other option is useless and wasteful Select this option Verify word here Click on join

For Non Yahoo Users Send an to You will receive a conformation Replying confirmation will make you group member

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