{"id":360,"date":"2015-09-14T18:17:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T18:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/?p=360"},"modified":"2017-02-13T16:49:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T16:49:42","slug":"damn_spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/2015\/09\/damn_spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn Spam!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Email<\/strong> is one of those things people don\u2019t seem to do very well, at least the people I have had to support in companies and people in my family. I am only going to talk about a couple of issues in this story.\u00a0 I\u2019ll cover others later. I am going to remain vague about specific examples, \u00a0to protect the guilty.<\/p>\n

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  1. There is a lot of damn spam in the inbox.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You need to learn how to user filters, rules or whatever your service calls them.\u00a0 They are things you can setup so stuff automatically get filtered into a folder so you don\u2019t have to do it manually.\u00a0\u00a0 For instance, I get spam from places I like. Places like Target, Best Buy, Pintrest(oh wait I don\u2019t like Pinterest), Kickstarter and other places like that.\u00a0 I get lots of emails.\u00a0 I put all of these types into a folder called marketing.\u00a0 Google also sorts these into a bucket\/tab called promotions.\u00a0 I browse the once or twice a week and only check the top 50, then delete them every once and a while.\u00a0 Gmail also has a tab called social that filters the relentless stream of social updates out of my main inbox.\u00a0 You can setup filters to get those out of your inbox.<\/p>\n

    Here is also a caveat – \u00a0KISS,\u00a0 I was working with a guy that had over 500 filters\/Rules.<\/p>\n

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    1. Only use one inbox<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Learn how to get all of your personal emails coming into one place.\u00a0 I am talking about things like school accounts, Yahoo, AOL(LOL if you have one of those, sadly I do too), Hotmail, and Google.\u00a0 Currently I have about 15 accounts coming into one gmail account.\u00a0\u00a0 I think you can probably setup Yahoo and Microsoft(Hotmail) to handle all of your email in one accounts.<\/p>\n

      Here are some suggestions about services to use<\/p>\n

      Pros \u2013 Gmail is free and probably has the best spam\/email separation in the business. 2-step authentication*.<\/p>\n

      Cons- they are reading your email to constantly inundate you with ads.<\/p>\n

      If you are anti-gmail, you may want to give Microsoft a try.\u00a0 They will even let you use your email address from some other service as your primary email.\u00a0 That is cool<\/p>\n

      Pros \u2013 It integrates with Microsoft Office and Xbox<\/p>\n

      Cons \u2013 it doesn\u2019t filter as well as Google. Bing<\/p>\n

      Apple Mail<\/p>\n

      If you are an Apple products buyer, iPhone,iPad and MacBook.\u00a0 You may want to give apple\u2019s email situation a try.\u00a0 They do some slick stuff, but I\u2019ve never used their .mac accounts for email.\u00a0 I do however have an apple id.<\/p>\n

      Pros \u2013 it works great with all your iOS devices<\/p>\n

      Cons \u2013 you will have to pay a yearly fee.<\/p>\n

      Anyway . . . There are some other things you need to do with your email.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0That is your assignment for the week.\u00a0 Take a few moments to clean up your inbox.<\/p>\n

      *You need to be using two-step authentication, even if it might get annoying once every two or three months.\u00a0\u00a0 Live with it!<\/p>\n

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      Email is one of those things people don\u2019t seem to do very well, at least the people I have had to support in companies and people in my family. I am only going to talk about a couple of issues in this story.\u00a0 I\u2019ll cover others later. I am going to remain vague about specific… <\/p>\n

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