Bank statements, contracts, tickets, love letters… Most issues on this world may be despatched by way of electronic mail, and defending your electronic mail is after all extraordinarily necessary.

In this information, we present you how one can do it on the planet’s hottest electronic mail service Gmail, however the primary ideas are relevant to different providers as properly.

Skip good options

Gmail has many good options that provide you with strategies based mostly on what you and others have written previously. If you discover this monitoring uncomfortable, you possibly can take away it.

HOW? Go to Gmail, click on on the cogwheel within the high proper nook, choose See all settings > General. The checklist reveals a variety of so-called good options which are all based mostly on monitoring. Deactivate them! Then additionally choose Inbox and go all the way down to Importance markers and alter to Do not use my previous actions to foretell which messages are necessary.

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Skip exterior pictures

In concept, the pictures in an electronic mail generally is a safety danger, as they’ll observe your utilization. The similar goes for Dynamic Email, i.e. emails that include a questionnaire, for instance. Both may be switched off.

HOW? Open General (as above), and choose Images. Switch to Ask earlier than viewing exterior pictures. Directly beneath can also be Dynamic electronic mail and right here you possibly can take away the tick at Enable.

Send confidential emails

Gmail has a confidential mode that forestalls the recipient from forwarding an electronic mail. You may shield the e-mail with a password and make it self-destruct after a sure time.

HOW? Tap on Compose to create a brand new electronic mail and click on on the padlock and bell icon. Select the expiry date and password necessities and click on on Save. Now you possibly can write and ship as traditional.

Sam Singleton

Stop spam ..

Spam, or unsolicited electronic mail promoting, is a supply of irritation. But there are methods to guard your self.

HOW? If you’ve got acquired a spam message, you possibly can mark it as spam with the button Report spam on the highest toolbar above the e-mail.

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… and save actual emails

Sometimes trustworthy emails find yourself within the Spam folder, so it’s a good suggestion to test sometimes.

HOW? Open the Junk Mail within the left-hand menu, choose or open an electronic mail and choose Not spam.

Further studying: 5 free privacy tools for protecting your personal data

Use spam addresses

A great way to scale back the issue of spam is to have a primary handle that you just use with nice care and a “junk” handle that you just use in dangerous conditions. If the latter turns into overloaded with spam, you possibly can delete it and create a brand new one.

HOW? Get an additional electronic mail handle, for instance, by means of Gmail, Microsoft Outlook or Yahoo Mail.

This article was translated from Swedish to English, and initially appeared on PCforAlla.se.