Wanna Get Rid Of Spam Emails? Follow These Tips

New Delhi: Gmail allows users to block and unsubscribe to spam emails. You can also filter spam mail in your Gmail. Gmail also allows to mass report of spam emails. Here’s how to block emails on Gmail

How to Set a Gmail Spam Filter

1. Log on to Gmail and select all the spam emails you want to unsubscribe from (make sure that you don’t select any important email ID).
2. Click on the icon at the top and you will be shown the options to ‘Report spam’ or ‘Report spam and unsubscribe’.
3. Go through the list of IDs listed and if there is nothing important shown here, choose the Report spam and unsubscribe option.
4. You will now stop receiving emails from these accounts.

Create filters to detect spam email

1. Open Gmail, click on the search box at the top, and type unsubscribe to list all promotional emails.
2. Select all of these spam emails, but make sure you cross-check once in case there is a newsletter or mail you actually use in there.
3. Click on the three dots at the top and choose Filter messages like these.
4. Now click on the create filter option and choose what you want to do with these emails. If you want these emails to be automatically deleted, you can click on the Create a filter option and choose the Delete it option.
5. You will get a pop-up at the bottom notifying you that a filter has been created. Apart from deleting, you can also choose to filter such emails by applying labels, or marking them as read.