PC PRIMER # 621
By R.L. Creighton
Copyright 2004
Incredimail; I don’t know how many
of you use it as your mail receiving/reading program, but it has always been
high on my list of great programs. Now Incredimail is becoming my favorite
program. (In it’s class).
Recent changes to the program have
added a new folder that is the best eliminator of Junk mail I have seen so
far. If you have Incredimail, go to
their web site and download an update. Just click on the download button on
their site and it will find your file and update you to the newest
edition.
When you open Incredimail after
downloading, the new folder will be on the left side of the screen it is called ”Junk & Unapproved”.
If you click on the folder it brings up another page, allowing you to configure
the settings. At this point the program will make a list of all the people that
you have sent e-mail to, and all the people that you have received e-mail
from. This becomes a list of acceptable
e-mail for delivery to your in box.
Anything else is sent to the Junk & Unapproved folder.
Now what you want to do is click on
the “Junk filter settings” button that will be found on the upper right side of
the screen when the Junk folder is open.
This will show you the list of people that you agree to have on the
acceptable list. I guarantee that many many of them will need to be
removed. To remove people and address’ from the list just click on the line you want
removed then click on remove. (You can make this removal process faster by
holding down the control key and selecting several address’ and then hit remove
and you get rid of batches at a time).
During
this process, you will notice listings for body part lengthening, breast
enlargement, home loans, (basically all the junk mail that you do not want.
Remove those people from the list). Once you complete the list you continue on
to using your e-mail normally. (With one major exception; you won’t get mail
from anyone that is not on your list.
All those others will be dumped into the Junk & unapproved folder).
The first day that I did this, I
awoke in the morning with eight e-mails from people I wished to hear from. The
Junk folder had one hundred eighty four pieces that were rejected. A quick scan through the list of refused
files revealed three that I want to receive mail from. I clicked on their
folder and clicked”Add to Approved Senders” and their e-mail was moved over for
me.
This is real magic. All the junk is
filtered out and unless I add them to my list I won’t have to put up with their
garbage. This might just be the answer to the spam problems. I do have to check the list daily to be sure
that a friend wasn’t excluded, but this is made easy as well. The Junk folder shows how many pieces of junk
are contained therein, when you look at the folder all of the new additions are
in bold print. If you look at the list, then open the list again, the files
that you had checked are now no longer bold, only new files are bold. This lessens the chore of checking. I love
it.
Try this I promise you won’t regret
it.
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