How to "Sweep" away junk mail in Hotmail

By
Real Estate Agent with Progressive Realty (Boise Idaho) www.Progressive-Realty.info DB-17066

Are you tired of the increasing amount of junk and spam emails you get in your Hotmail account? Here is a simple solution the at least make it more manageable.  Hotmail added a cool feature called “Sweep” which was added in May of 2010; however I just started using it.  If you use Hotmail, you should check this out!

Once you get on someone’s spam list, it is hard to get off.  If you try to unsubscribe, many times that just confirms you have an active email address and they resell your email to someone else and makes the problem worse.  Therefore, here is a quick and easy way to block ever receiving emails from those specific spammers again.

Hotmail's Sweep spam filter

Hotmail spam blocker

 

Comments (4)

Eric Crane -- Your Full Service, Discount Fee RealtorĀ®
DPR Realty LLC - Gilbert, AZ
Greater Metro Phoenix Arizona

Wow, Jim -- thanks so much!

I have been clicking the box to 'select all' and dumping them, but did not know about the sweep feature. 

Thanks for this tidbit, as like most Realtors, my email account is out of control.

Have a great Holiday weekend!

May 29, 2011 05:28 AM
Jim Paulson
Progressive Realty (Boise Idaho) www.Progressive-Realty.info - Boise, ID
Owner,Broker

@Eric, Your very welcome.  I have already seen a huge difference in the volume of junk I get.  As Realtors, I always have to scan the hundreds of junk mails I get before deleting them daily.  I usually just read the subject line so it doesn't take long to mass delete, but this sure helps.  Now if I can learn the same system on Gmail.

May 29, 2011 06:56 AM
Karen Krupovage
Affinity Real Estate, LLC Alamogordo, New Mexico - Alamogordo, NM
Owner & Qualifying Broker, Affinity Real Estate, L

Good to know.  Thanks for the tip!

May 29, 2011 09:35 AM
Robert Bob Gilbert
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Anderson Properties - Katy, TX
Your Katy TX ( West of Houston) Real Estate Expert

Thank you very much for this tip as the spam is killing my inbox...

May 29, 2011 10:13 AM

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