Blocking Spam Email Messages in Gmail

Gmail has perhaps one of the most effective spam-filtering systems among Web mail services.

But once in a while, junk still finds its way into the user's inbox.
Fortunately, marking spam as such and getting rid of it is easy.

Mark an Email Message as Spam First, make sure you are logged in to your Gmail account. Locate the spam messages and then: Click the check box to the left of the spam message. If you want to select multiple emails, press the Ctrl key as you click each one, or the Shift key if they follow one another.

On the toolbar immediately above the messages list, click the icon with a circle and exclamation point. The tool tip should display Report spam.
Gmail will display the message "This conversation has been marked as spam.

" If you made a mistake, click Undo. If you selected a message from an address that you are also subscribed to, Gmail will display a message saying, "In addition to marking this message as spam, Gmail can attempt to automatically unsubscribe you from [sender] by sending an unsubscribe request on your behalf.

" You can unsubscribe and report the mail as spam, or just mark that particular message as junk.
Remove an Email Message from Spam If you marked a legitimate conversation as junk mail, don't despair. You can still remove the "spam" label on it.
Do this as soon as possible, so you do not miss out on any important messages from the sender that was accidentally blocked.
Also spam messages are deleted from your mailbox after a month.

While in Gmail, bring your mouse over to the left sidebar, just between the sidebar and the messages pane.

Wait for the vertical scroll bar to appear.
Find the label marked as Spam.

You may have to click More to see it.
Click the Spam label.

Select the message to restore.
On the toolbar, click Not spam.
Delete Spam Email Messages If you know an email is junk, and you don't need it, there's no reason why it should stay in your mailbox.
When you delete spam, it's gone forever.

Doesn't that feel good? Alternatively, you can let Google Nature run its course: all mails marked as spam are automatically deleted after 30 days.

Go to the Spam label on the left sidebar. Select the messages to be deleted.
Click Delete forever on the toolbar.
To delete all spam, click Delete all spam messages now.

You should see a message reading, "All messages marked spam have been deleted forever.

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