So since unsubscribe buttons don't mean anything to anyone anymore, and tagging stuff as spam only works for a few days before the companies put out a slightly different email address and get by it, teach me how to setup some rules to not see so much useless E36 M3 in my inbox. Please.
I've found gmail handles this very effectively for me. Maybe be more active labeling things as "social" and "promotions"?
In reply to RevRico :
I use the Gmail auto unsubscribe option at the top of the incoming message and also the one at the bottom of the email (when there is one) and have a daily routine of deleting about seventy five messages.
If there is a better way, I'd love to know it.
For me, Gmail is FANTASTIC about quarantining spam. My spam folder gets 50-60 a day and I never see them. It auto-deletes them after a few days. I do get marketing emails from time to time, but once I unsubscribe, they stop.
The "unsubscribe" button in Gmail isn't foolproof. That button tries to do the legwork for you, but it doesn't always work. If you really want to unsubscribe, follow the link in the bottom of the email and do it yourself on the unsubscribe website that pops up. As I understand it, if you unsub from a company's email, and they send you another one (in the same category) it is most illegal. When I say in the same category, I mean to say - if your bank sends you an email that says "apply now for a refinance and get a free toaster!" and you unsub from that, they are still allowed to send you an email that says "we noticed you haven't paid your mortgage, Rico, please give us a call."
If the subject of the email is "Don't miss our 20% off membership deal" from Costco, that's just marketing. Click the link to unsubscribe, and move on. They're advertising to try and get you to buy their product. Do your due diligence, though, and check the sending email address. If it says marketing@costco.com, you're likely safe. If it says fakeymcfakerson@india.suckerborneveryminute.com, don't click it.
If it says "eN-Laarge y.o.u.r p-en-i$", that's likely a malicious email setup by someone using a known network of botnets (grandma's Win7 laptop that she forgot to turn off in 2001) and you should report it as spam, delete it, and do NOT click anything in the email.
The malicious emails don't find RevRico@Gmail.com and decide to spam you. A bot is somewhere churning out lists of generated emails that basically make up every possible email address on the planet. It starts with 1@1.com and keeps going. That's how spam phone calls work as well, BTW. I'm in 717 area code. They don't have my phone number, but a computer generates a list of every possible combination of numerals for the last 7 digits and starts calling. That's why if you pick up the phone, no one is there for a second or two. They're like 'oh crap, someone picked up. That's an actual number." If you click unsubscribe or interact with anything in the email, they now know they have an actual email address which can then be targeted... hacks, marketing, malware, etc.
In reply to Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) :
Well that's kinda the problem. I only use the unsubscribe links in emails, when they actually have them in the first place, and it doesn't do any good. I filter it to spam, and I get more in a few days maybe a week. Meanwhile important stuff from places I would never unsubscribe from wind up in my spam folder.
Like zelli shoes, or dashhemp, whom I've haven't bought from since 2012, and unsubscribed from in 2012, still pop up in my inbox, but Todd Snyders tour updates that I specifically signed up for go straight to spam and I have to dig them out.
What I want I guess is to filter out whole domains. I spend too much time every day deleting emails.
RevRico said:What I want I guess is to filter out whole domains. I spend too much time every day deleting emails.
Easy. Here is a simple how-to on that.
You can also open an e-mail from the domain; click on the three vertical dots in the upper right corner; then select an appropriate action like "Filer Messages Like This" or "Block '[Originator]'".
DexterSanchez said:In reply to OHSCrifle :
Is there any way to unsubscribe all unwanted incoming email?
Get a new email address.
I have to say Gmail, for me, does a great job of filling my Promotions and Social folders with crap that I have to remember to check occasionally. StickerMule offers sometimes end up in Promotions, most of the time in my inbox (& I like seeing them, they regularly offer 50 stickers for $19 vs $50-70).
I had a proof for a scarf merchandise item for my Star Wars group go into spam on Friday, I didn't even know it had a spam folder (it's in a drop-down menu item vs the others being right there). But the other 99% of the time Gmail works great. That's why I started using it more than the ArrestingPhotography (website) email I had been using for decades.
I've got a little Gmail knowledge from my day gig. 
If you want to filter mail, it's pretty simple. On the right side of the search bar in Gmail, there are little "slider" switches. Click that, and it will open up the Filters and Labels menu. If you are looking to filter out an entire address, just paste the email address in the "from" field and hit Search. Then, you can tell Gmail what to do with them. If you are wanting to organize, that's where Labels come in. Think of Labels as "folders" for Gmail. You can direct Gmail to take anything from those search parameters and apply that label to them. Make sure to check off the "Skip the Inbox (archive it)" box if you don't want to see it in the inbox anymore. You can also straight up delete things with filters if you want to. Also, remember to click the "Also apply filter to matching messages" box!
I installed and created an account for "UnrollMe" and have seen a significant decrease in inbox clutter.
I can also choose to get a single email with the marketing/subscription emails I want to keep without having them all in my inbox (Like HF and similar ones).
Im sure someone more cybersecurity savvy is going to point out problems with this approach, so I'm listening in case i need to make adjustments.
Also, when signing up for a deal where you need to enter an email, you can append you email address to make it easier to filter, such as "myemail+hammerstore@gmail.com". It will still go to your inbox, but then you can filter to put it into a different folder.
You can also use this method sometimes to get additional free trials for services without creating a new email.
No Time said:Also, when signing up for a deal where you need to enter an email, you can append you email address to make it easier to filter, such as "myemail+hammerstore@gmail.com". It will still go to your inbox, but then you can filter to put it into a different folder.
You can also use this method sometimes to get additional free trials for services without creating a new email.
That is an interesting tip I never heard before. Gracias
I have owned a custom domain (my last name dot net) for 20+ years. Whenever I sign up for any service that wants an email address - say Walgreen photos - I give them walgreenphotos@ my domain.
Then every incoming message is auto forwarded to my Gmail address by rule at the Domain level. (Or something.. I set it up ages ago and the terminology escapes me).
Regardless it all arrives at my Gmail inbox but I can read in the header to whom the message was addressed.
That way I can tell who sold my email address. Or who got their data hacked.
One time I started getting several spammy sounding email to one of those addresses - so I notified the company and asked them to make it stop. They replied denying that their system was hacked and they denied having sold the email address to a spammer. I disproved that theory quickly and a few days later a long apology email was sent to every customer.
But anyway - thanks for that tip about appending "my email+randomwords" to a gmail address. That seems worth trying out!!
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