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Additional Ideas for Dealing with Junk Email

Junk email is inevitable. The simplest way to avoid junk mail is to give out your email address only to trusted friends.

Since many online merchants ask for your email address, you could create and use a free email account (through Yahoo! or another free email account company) and use these “dummy” email addresses whenever you need to give out an email address. If junk mail overwhelms your free email account, you can simply shut it down and create a new one.

Junk email will always be a nuisance, like death and taxes, but with Mail’s built-in junk mail filtering, you can reduce a potential flood of junk email into a manageable trickle.