Train your Device: Mark the email as spam
Can you stop spam email in Gmail?
The short answer is you can’t stop the spam, but you can filter it out of your life by creating Gmail filters that will help you manage email that will make your life a lot less hassled by spamaholics.
- Important emails are directed into your inbox instead of the spam folder
- Similarly worded spam emails are directed into the trash or spam folders
How to create a Gmail Spam filter
- Log into your Gmail account
- Click the gear icon in the upper right hand corner of your screen
- In the panel that opens up, click the “See all settings” button
- Click the “Filters and Blocked Addresses” in the top menu of words under “Settings
- Then click “Create a new filter”
There’s an alternative way to doing this too. You can also go into any spam email in your inbox and in the upper right hand corner of the email, click the 3 vertical dots and it will reveal a menu. Then click “Filter messages like this”.
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How to direct important emails into your inbox
Never miss another email you want with this trick to VIP certain email messages. If you find that some important emails are landing in your spam folder, you can create a filter so that you can ensure you ALWAYS receive email from individuals.
For example, if you want to set up a filter so that you always receive my CyberGuy newsletter you would add [email protected] (the email address of our newsletter), in the “From field” and click “Create filter“:
- On the next screen, select “Never send it to spam“. When you follow these easy steps to create the filter, all future emails will be sent to your inbox.
- Since this filter will apply to future emails, we need to look in our spam folder to see if there are any important messages there and make sure to tell Gmail that these are important emails…
How to label important emails in your spam folder as “Not Spam”
First, let’s identify where the spam folder is.
- In the left hand column, click the “More button” and it will reveal the Spam folder.
- Click the Spam folder and look through the rows of emails to see if you identify any any important email and/or sender. If you do, click the row to reveal the email.
- At the top of the email, you’ll see a bar with a button “Report not spam“. If the message is not spam, be sure to click this button.