Changing email address

Autumnella

I get so much spamto my email address now I probably miss half of my WEM's. Has anyone changedvtheir comping email before? Was it a hassle?

SuzieTheCat

If I changed it, I would still be checking the old one now and then just in case by searching words like congratulations.

They say it is best to have a separate comping email account than your main one. I havn't done that myself, and I just go through and delete the spam on the morning, it doesn't seem too much, but then I have only been comping for nearly a year!

nelie

I don't really get spam. Just newsletters, but I check on my phone when I can, then when i get home, I do a search - then I check my folders.

What kind of spam are you getting?

emily131

I use Popfile which takes a bit of setting up but is very useful. You train it to know what types of emails are what and it flags them, so you can set up message rules to put certain types of emails into folders. It gets it right nearly all the time. I have folders for newsletters, spam, surveys etc. then anything else goes into my main inbox so I know anything of importance is most likely to be there.

hazyjo

gmail are very good re spam.

Definitely have a separate comping address.

Yes, I have changed. I still open both every day and have linked both (and my normal one) to my phone so when I check emails, it checks from all three accounts.

Start unsubscribing to newsletters, etc that come into your old account. Eventually the emails will start slowing down.

The first email I used for comping, I still use lots anyway as it's my sign-in one on many comp sites. Anything I enter where I fill out a form or email, I give the new one.

Sounds far more hassle than it actually is. Just check both and unsubscribe from stuff.

Jx

bullshot

I change my comping email address every 6 months, but keep checking the previous one carefully for a couple of months.I have different email addresses for banking, purchasing on the internet, emailing friends,and Twitter....I use my comping email address for Facebook. the interesting thing is my latest change of address , just before Christmas in readiness for the Advents , has hardly produced any ' spam' , some days none at all! ...I do still check the previous comping email address and it still generates hundreds of ' spam' emails every week......I do not use Hotmail or Gmail , all mine are btinternet ones....so easy to check all my emails on ipad, MacBook and my iPone.

lovelyx

I get a lot of spam too but have found that http://www.unroll.me is a godsend for unsubscribing from newsletters, and if you're worried that you might miss something you can 'roll' all the emails you don't want into like a digest so you're not inundated with hundreds of emails every day.

I have a separate comping email address and sometimes struggle to keep the number of unread emails down if I'm not working on it every day so I try and delete things daily otherwise it all looks so daunting!

Double_V

You can block all the spam. Add them to junk list. And you will not receive again from same sender.

IDeamOfFairies

lovelyx wrote: »

I get a lot of spam too but have found that http://www.unroll.me is a godsend for unsubscribing from newsletters, and if you're worried that you might miss something you can 'roll' all the emails you don't want into like a digest so you're not inundated with hundreds of emails every day.

Beware of unroll.me ..... it may be useful to unsubscribe from mailing lists, but it also then sends any mail from the emails you unsubscribe from direct into your trash folder.
So if you do get a WEM from a company you have unsubscribed from it will be in your Trash and you may never see it

sleepyjones

If you use Hotmail or Outlook as it's now known you can just setup a new alias, which basically acts as a new email address but just filters everything into a new folder ... that way it's in the same place as your current email account (if your current one is outlook / hotmail). You can also setup filters as above, to move anything with Congratulations or winner into a separate folder, or move anything with PPI / Viagra etc into a spam folder (These kids of emails will probably already be spammed, but you can set it up for any keyword).

skintpaul

my 'comping' email getting over run now, with all the seemingly 'obligatory' newsletters i've signed up for..

going to have to change!