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The location for storing unwanted email as determined by a spam filter. Also called a "junk folder" or "junk mailbox," spam folders are created by mail servers as well as by the user's email program.

Have you ever been waiting for an important email only to find out it went into your spam folder? This can be frustrating if you're waiting on correspondence from someone, but it can also be ...

The spam filters implemented by email providers like AOL, Yahoo Mail, and Apple Mail keep us from being bombarded with irrelevant newsletters and malware-infested emails. Still, you may have missed an ...

Spam is an annoying part of our digital lives but gone are the days of only receiving spam calls, emails, or messages. Now you may often receive files on Google Drive that you didn’t request. To ...

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 ...

Trying to find an email that you know was sent, but it's not showing up in your inbox can be infuriating. The first thing ...

The algorithms guarding our inboxes have now developed to the stage that spam is usually kept at bay, but these auto-sorting processes aren’t perfect yet—if you’re not regularly opening up your spam ...

Google is improving its spam protection measures in Drive. Like Gmail, Google Drive will soon start filtering out potentially dangerous or abusive content and automatically putting them into a new ...

I got a gmail account right when they first came out and get a fair amount of spam. I never clear out the spam folder since it auto-deletes, but I noticed that over the last week or two the amount of ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Fifteen years after launching Google Docs and Sheets with file sharing, Google is adding what sounds like adequate safety controls to the feature. Google Drive (the file repository interface that ...