Eliminate Most if Not All Spam E-mail

Eliminate Most if Not All Spam E-mail


  • Users may eliminate most, if not all, of the spam e-mail they receive by using Google Gmail as an e-mail filter.

  • Gmail has one of the best if not the best spam filtering systems and can be used to filter your e-mails even if you are not using it as your primary e-mail client.

  • We are successfully able to block 99.9% of the spam we receive daily. To set this up, follow the steps below.

    POP/IMAP users

  • If you use a local client such as Microsoft Outlook or Thunderbird to send and receive your e-mail and not a webmail service, you should have a POP or POP3 address. To get your e-mail from a POP server, follow the steps below.

    Retrieving e-mail on Gmail

  • Create a Google Gmail account if you do not already have one.

  • Click the Gear icon in the top-right corner of the Gmail screen and then click Settings.

  • Click Accounts and Import

  • In the Check mail from other accounts (using POP3) click Add a POP3 mail account you own.

  • Fill out all the e-mail address, username, password, and POP server address information and if successful Gmail should be successfully retrieving your e-mail from your e-mail server.

  • After getting your e-mail on Gmail, you can continue to use Gmail as your primary e-mail service to send and receive e-mail. If you still want to use Outlook, Thunderbird or another e-mail client to send and receive your e-mail follow the steps below to retrieve your e-mail from Google.

    Retrieve e-mail from Gmail on Outlook, Thunderbird, or another e-mail client

  • Click the Gear icon in the top-right corner of the Gmail screen and then click Settings.

  • In settings click Forward and POP/IMAP.

  • Select Enable POP for all mail or Enable POP for mail that arrives from now on.

  • Once changes have been made
    click Save Changes and configure your e-mail client.


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