Spam auto-deletes in Gmail after 30 days — but it can be helpful to check the folder to make sure useful messages aren't slipping through the cracks.

One thing that saves us from opening a vicious email filled with malware is that most of these emails go directly to our junk or spam folders. Once in a while, a legitimate email can be sent to your ...

Losing an important email can be frustrating, especially if it ended up in Gmail’s Spam folder and got deleted before you realized it. Whether you deleted it yourself or it disappeared after Gmail’s ...

Over the years, scammers have become very inventive in their efforts to swindle you out of your money, privacy, security and sanity. They have pretended to be everything from your family, friends, ...

Search for the missing emails in the search box, check Spam and Trash folders, inspect filters and forwarding settings, and finally use the Gmail Message Recovery Tool to get the permanently deleted ...

Every so often I check my spam folder to see if emails from friends or professional contacts somehow got intercepted and rejected by the spam filter. This requires a fast descent into a netherworld of ...

When Apple released iOS 26 on Sept. 15, the update included a call screening feature to help block spam calls to your iPhone, and it can screen texts from unknown senders to keep your inbox spam free.

Spam calls are annoying. I have my phone ringer on in case there is an emergency, but before iOS 26, spam would routinely call my iPhone a handful of times a week. It was extremely stressful, ...

To summarize where I am with protecting my own domain's email, SpamJadoo is now filtering out about 3,000 spam attempts a day, and passing less than a hundred emails a day to my server. This is a big ...

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