Email Articles
1: Using Google SPAM filters for your own mail
The ultimate anti-SPAM solution
By filtering your email through Google's spam filters
Google currently has the best known anti-spam filters. The idea of this document is to explain how to make use of spam filters for any email account(s).
The basic steps:
1. Create a free Gmail account
2. Setup your normal email account to forward all incoming mail to your Gmail account
3. Enable your Gmail to work with Outlook (or any other mail client)
4. Setup Outlook (or any other mail client) to download the mail to your computer
5. Change the FROM address to your normal email account
6. Optional (recommended): Forward all other email accounts to this Gmail account
1. Create a free Gmail account
Go to http://mail.google.com/mail/signup
Follow the instructions
2. Setup your normal email account to forward all incoming mail to your Gmail account
If not sure, contact your service provider, who supplied you the email account, to help. Normally you will have an account where you can log in to c
2: How not to fall prey to fake articles
IMPORTANT: IF YOU SUSPECT ANY STATEMENT TO BE QUESTIONABLE YOU MUST READ THIS
I regularly receive untrue emails from friends. The sad thing is it usually comes from good people who do not really know what they are sending.
Popular examples of this untrue information:
- Beta testing software: Bill Gates shares fortune with Microsoft users
- 'A virtual card for you': Another hoax virus warning: "It sends itself automatically to all contacts on your list with the title 'A Virtual Card for You...'"
- Nigerian money scam
Step 1: Decide if it's questionable
For example if it says Microsoft is giving thousands away for forwarding an email - red lights should go on. Not all fake articles are so obvious, but if the article makes any strange claim you should check it out.
Step 2: Google it
The internet is the biggest source of information that exists. Google is the way to access it. There are hundreds of websites that keep track of all these untrue articles and Google knows them all. Th
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