Sunday, 6 June 2010

Two Simple Ways To Keep Your Inbox From Junk Mails

Junk mailEmail is one of the most indispensable parts of
a modern life due to its conveniences. Nevertheless, you sometimes
stumble upon annoyances made by junk mails which overflow your inbox.
These are two simple and straightforward ways to keep your inbox from
junk mails.



1. Use an alternative email to
register:

 

Most of online websites (e.g.
forums, social media sites
) now require you to register an
account in order to use their services. And the worst fact is that some
of them sell members’ emails to spammers. So how to protect your email
but still get notifications from those websites? The most simple and
efficient way is to use an alternative email to register, and then
create a filter in the alternate to send only messages from the sites
you want to your real email. For instance, I want to register a new
account on Digital Point
forum, I should use this alternate alternate.phaoloo@gmail.com,
then create a new filter (Settings
> Filters > Create a new filter
) with the
information:



From: digitalpoint.com

Gmail Filter


Forward to: real.phaoloo@gmail.com

Gmail Filter


Once the filter is created, you can receive messages only from the
sites you want, but all other mails (most of them are junk mails) can’t
bypass and go into your inbox.



2. Use kontactr




Sometimes, you would like to share your email to friends or readers on
your blog or forum. In fact, doing this is so dangerous because your
email is easily caught by email collector software. The algorithm of
this software is very simple, they just surf the web and search to the
text include the character “@”
and add to their database. To make it safer, you may use kontactr
which is a free and efficient contact form provider.

Kontactr


Once you’ve registered an account there, kontactr provides
you a web page include a contact form. You just share everyone the
address of this page, so when a strange folk wants to contact you, he
may use this form to send you the message. The message is only
submitted when he fill the right captcha which is quite efficient to
prevent spam robots. Then, kontactr
will send the message to your inbox.



kontactr
also provides you many codes to embed into your website or blog. For
instance, you can see the kontactr
form on my contact page.



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