One thing that saves us from opening a vicious email filled with malware is that most of these emails go directly to our junk or spam folders. Once in a while, a legitimate email can be sent to your ...

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The location for storing unwanted email as determined by a spam filter. Also called a "junk folder" or "junk mailbox," spam folders are created by mail servers as well as by the user's email program.

The algorithms guarding our inboxes have now developed to the stage that spam is usually kept at bay, but these auto-sorting processes aren’t perfect yet—if you’re not regularly opening up your spam ...

A: Ideally, items deleted from your Junk folder should be permanently deleted when you instruct the email program to do so. This typically happens when you right-click over the items in the folder, or ...

QUESTION: Why can’t I get an important email message containing a link that I need but other messages from the same company come through just fine? ANSWER: Few things in the tech world are as ...

A: While it sounds a bit counter-intuitive, seeing a large number of messages arrive in your spam folder each day does not necessarily indicate a problem. The junk folder itself (a.k.a. spam folder) ...

Do you even look at the emails piling up in your junk or spam email folders? Do you ever clean the folders out or do you have hundreds or even thousands just sitting there for who knows how long? Most ...

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