Junk Mail Folder Analysis – Gold Nuggets You May Be Missing
Another year comes to a close. Your junk mail folder, spam folder, or whatever your mail system calls it remains full, and you ignore it. Some mail systems delete junk mail after 30 days. If you use Microsoft Outlook, the emails will sit there to infinity unless you delete them. I will review what I found this week in my junk mail setting.
Deleting Everything in Junk Mail Folder
But wait, do not just delete your business junk mail folder. I know you may have hundreds coming in every day. Check your junk mail setting. Usually, there are high, medium, and low blockage settings. If you are receiving too many spam emails, you might want to adjust your settings. I would not recommend the block everything setting. Ours at cutcompcosts.com remains set on medium with our web service provider.
The mass email spammers never make it through. Yeah!
Be very careful when going through your Junk Mail Folder. If you are not sure or the company does not look familiar, do not click on any links.
Your employer may have rules on junk mail, follow those exactly. You do not want to explain why you clicked on an unknown sender’s email and the associated links.
Why Go Through Your Junk Mail?
If you just delete your Junk Mail, you may be deleting business inquiries from potential customers if you own your own business or great info that you could review and use.
Let us go through a Junk mail folder analysis together to see what nuggets that I should have received in my Inbox.
What I Found in My Spam Folder
During my monthly Junk Mail folder analysis, this is what I found were emails from:
- Business inquiry email on J&L’s services
- Attorney that writes insurance articles
- An organization that has yearly conferences that I attend
- A Workers Comp collaboration invite to a project
- Two government RFPs – one that I will for sure provide a bid
- A Safety Organization that I work with at times during the year
I could go on, but you get the idea. Yes, there were many spam mails, but this is only after going through 50 emails.
How do you make sure that this sender does not have future emails blocked? Right-click on the email and click – Never Block Sender if you are using Outlook. If you are using some other email system look for whitelist or
Due to time limits/deadlines on the emails, I do my Junk Mail folder analysis weekly.
Sending No Spam Emails
If you or your company uses Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or one of those generic addresses, you may want your email to look like example@your_company_name.com not [email protected]. You can get that type of email for as little as $2 month. If you do not feel like setting it up – Upwork contractors will assist you for a low price. Contact me at [email protected] if you need any advice – glad to do it.
