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What Your Inbox Means To You

By Dana McLean


As you navigate the ins and outs of your Inbox, unsolicited emails and irritating viruses disguised as attachments may plague your Internet correspondences. To ensure the safety of emails you receive, as well as make sure your Inbox doesn't become a cluttered mess, a few suggestions on how to make life much easier can be found below:

Safeguarding Your Inbox

Spam protection is the most commonly used solution when minimizing unwanted emails in your inbox and reducing the amount of solicitations. Some mail systems allow users to identify spam that has infiltrated their Inbox, making sure specific email addresses don't pass through in the future. Other providers have their own built-in filters that send what they believe is spam to a Bulk folder. Today, Bulk folders can fill with close to 1,000 unwanted messages in one day. Also, if you are prone to receiving malicious links or images, some systems allow image blocking for further protection.

The Process Of Sorting Emails

There may be times you may want to check back on an email conversation you had several months back. You can save a great deal of precious time by searching by keyword or phrase on your email service's search bar - this certainly beats having to skim through every page of opened emails. For example, in Yahoo Mail, enter the word "dogs" as a search term and any email in your Inbox containing the word or a form of the word will appear. Another way you can use the search bar would be by entering the sender's first name, last name or both.

How To Sort Through Unread Emails

As you receive emails throughout the month, they can pile up. There may be some emails that you absolutely have to open, while others will stay parked in your Inbox until you eventually forget about them, or maybe even delete them. To keep up with Unread messages, you can easily find them all by filtering out all of the items you have already read. Majority of email providers offer this as an option, and if you choose this, you will be directed to a page containing nothing but Unread emails you can either open or delete.

Managing Your Inbox

One last thing you may want to know about your Inbox is the fact that you can tailor-fit it to your preferences. Many email systems allow their users to choose a color scheme for their Inbox. You may add Vacation responses that instantly alert those who send an email that you are away. Address books can be created, which makes responding to Inbox messages much easier. Shortcuts and nicknames for senders also make navigating your Inbox easier as you are better able to locate personal contacts.




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