
You cannot stop spam 100% but you can control it or in other words you can decrease it enough to not annoy you. Every email providers have different system, so i will show you how you can decrease
junk mails in Yahoo, G-mail and Hotmail.
Yahoo:
- Sign In
- Open the "Options" menu which is located at the top-left corner of the page
- Click on the "Mail Options"
- Under General, Scroll down to the "Spam Protection" area, Check the "Automatically move spam to spam folder"
- In "Advance Options" at the left column you will see "Blocked Addresses", you can block unwanted emails addresses from there.
- You can filters spam emails by word's, phrases by Filters, which is located in "Advanced Options"
G-mail:
- Sign In
- Click on the Steel wheel, which is located at the top-right of the page then select "Settings".
- Goto Labs tab.
- Scroll Down for SmartLabels and "Enable" it.
- Scroll Down and Save Changes.
Now Emails go into different labels like notifications, bulk, Forums and it will be easy for you to manage them.
Applying Filters:
- Click on the Steel wheel, which is located at the top-right of the page then select "Settings".
- Goto Filters tab.
- Click Create a new filter, you can put restrictions to specific Words, Subjects, e-mail address etc after that click on Create filter with this search.
- Now Check the desired actions for the word's or emails addresses you specified, and click on Create Filter.
- You are Done... :)
Hotmail:
- Sign In
- Goto Inbox
- Select Options | More options, located at the top right side of the page.
- Under Preventing Junk Email, you have two options that will control spam emails.
- Filters and Reporting
- Click Filters and Reporting
- Set the filter level to "Standard" and others settings to your desires.
- Save it.
2. Safe and blocked senders
You can block undesired email addresses from here and you can also classify safe email addresses so that hotmail will not delete/spam the emails from your friends and family.