Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here's the 411: your spam folder is basically a catchall spot in your email account that automatically filters out junk mail, or ...

Follow the steps below to change the level of protection in the Junk email filter in Outlook: Launch Outlook. On the Home tab in the Delete group, click the Junk button. Select the Junk E-mail Options ...

If a spam message makes it into your inbox, press and hold your finger on the message, then choose Mark and then Move to Junk from the pop-up menu. Jim Rossman / TNS This week a reader writes that she ...

Yahoo Mail uses complex filters to determine if specific emails are legitimate emails or if it should treat them as junk mail and send them to the spam folder. Every email is scanned, and SpamGuard, ...

After a search both here an in Google, I need to access the hive mind. I'm using Outlook 2007 at home and a good half of the email I get on my work account ends up in the junk mail folder. Obviously I ...

QUESTION: Why can’t I get an important email message containing a link that I need but other messages from the same company come through just fine? ANSWER: Few things in the tech world are as ...

The location for storing unwanted email as determined by a spam filter. Also called a "junk folder" or "junk mailbox," spam folders are created by mail servers as well as by the user's email program.

The algorithms guarding our inboxes have now developed to the stage that spam is usually kept at bay, but these auto-sorting processes aren’t perfect yet—if you’re not regularly opening up your spam ...

As marketing automation gains popularity many companies are expanding their use of email campaigns. Spammers, unfortunately, are also expanding their use of spam. In 2013, spam comprised an estimated ...

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