Are you one of those people who can’t find the important emails among all the spam, advertising and
newsletters?
It is quite easy to control your inbox with a few simple steps:
Go through your inbox one email at a time and check each email for its worth:
- If it is something you want, there is nothing you have to do. Go to the next email.
- If it is a newsletter, special offer etc from a business you have bought from in the past, again ask
yourself if you really want these emails. If not, there should be a ‘unsubscribe’ link most likely
right at the end of the email (generally quite small and faint). Click that, it will direct you to a
website, and sometimes you have to confirm that you want to unsubscribe. They might ask you
why, but you don’t have to answer that. That’s it! You might get a confirmation email, or it might
take a couple of days to go through their system, but you should no longer be bombarded with
‘special offers’. - If this does not work, or if it is an email you really don’t know how they even got your email
address, you can block them. Depending on your email program or provider, there should be an
option somewhere (typically where you find the Reply and Forward buttons) to Block, Mark as
Spam, Mark as Junk or similar. Simply press that, and you should no longer receive emails from
that address. Sometimes you even have the option to ‘report as spam’, but that is optional.
If you follow these steps for a few days (or weeks, depending on the amount of emails to go through),
your inbox should look a lot more manageable and contain mostly wanted emails. Also, keep
unsubscribing or blocking any new emails that will turn up.
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