Email Filters
If you have an email account, you know why you need email filters.
Left unchecked, any email account will quickly become overloaded with junk, some which will contain dangerous virusesG and scams. The good news is that any good email program now contains a lot of options for filtering out the stuff you don't want. Learn how to use those tools properly to make your email experience faster, safer and a lot simpler.
The first thing to do is to enable a junk email (or "spamG") filter. Most email programs and online services come with one of these installed. In many cases these are set to "on" by default, but if they're not, you can easily activate by finding your filtering preferences tab, or using your program's "help" tool.
Some junk mail filters -- like the one that comes with Microsoft Outlook -- have multiple junk mail settings. At the highest level these will filter out virtually everything you don't want. Just be aware that at the highest settings, spam filters can sometimes trap emails you want to receive. If you have your junk mail settings cranked up, make sure to take an occasional peek at your junk mail folder.
The next level of email filtering is to block all email from specific addresses. This works differently in different programs, but in Microsoft Outlook, for instance, you just select the message from the sender you wish to block by clicking on it, select "block sender" from the "message" pull-down window then click "yes" and "ok."
IMPORTANT NOTE: No email filter is perfect, so you still want to treat every message you get -- even the ones that appear to come from companies you do business with -- with a certain degree of caution.