how to prevent ads and junk mail from my gmail inbox

I haven’t seen this option on free email services such as Google’s Gmail, Microsoft’s Outlook and Yahoo Mail.

, for example, lets you select the aggressiveness of the spam filter on a scale from 1 to 5. If the filters are too fierce, then legitimate emails will end up in your spam box.Ī few services offer better control.

If the filters are loose, you will see a few spam emails in your inbox. Unfortunately, spam filtering is a tricky business. If you are seeing obvious adult spam emails in your inbox then either the filtering is turned off – which isn’t easy to do in Yahoo Mail – or the filters are failing. However, the ones that get through should arrive in your spam folder. Only a few get through, and five to 20 per day is not an unusual number. You will get lots of junk email because it costs nothing to send.Įmail service providers such as Yahoo, Google and Microsoft filter out billions of spam emails per day. You don’t get much junk mail because it costs a lot to send. Anybody who has your home or office address can send you letters and anybody who has your email address can send you spam. Adult emails are spam – and you can’t stop spam.

How to prevent ads and junk mail from my gmail inbox