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Control Spam
According to recent estimates, about 70 percent of all email is spam. Despite government
crackdowns, technological improvements, and a public that's less likely to fall for spam than
was once the case, spam continues to be a menace. I don't tolerate junk mail in my Inbox,
and you shouldn't either. I've written several topics and articles about spam, but I'd like to
summarize my advice on stopping spam with four main points, which will get most people
most of the way there.
Stop Spam at the Server
You shouldn't have to wait until your email arrives in Mail to filter out spam. Most respons-
ible email providers now offer server-side spam filtering—either as an option or as an auto-
matic, built-in feature. Letting the mail server identify spam means less spam in your In-
box—and not just on your Mac! If you use an iOS device, which doesn't offer spam filtering,
you'll appreciate the help with sorting out bad messages before they're downloaded.
Gmail, to take a prominent example, offers excellent spam filtering—not perfect, it's true, but
mighty good. You don't have to configure anything; just use Gmail and all the filtering hap-
pens behind the scenes. If you find a message in your Junk mailbox that Gmail has incor-
rectly marked as spam, you can simply drag it to your Inbox and Gmail will then be less likely
to filter out a similar message in the future.
iCloud also includes spam filtering, but it's both more aggressive and more opaque—filtered
messages simply disappear altogether, and you, as the recipient, may never know what
happened to them (or, even worse, that they were ever sent!). I've had friends send email to
