Tips in Keeping Your Cell Phone’s E-mail Inbox Spam Free
Since everything has already gone mobile, you can practically do everything with your cell phone. You can check for map directions, watch a movie or play a song. If you were one of those people who can't stand an hour without checking their e-mails online, then you are probably thrilled to use your cell phone's Internet and e-mail features to check on your e-mails. But there is a downside to that technology too. It might have happened to you – you check your e-mail and in a blink of an eye, you are flooded with junk mails. Or what we call in the Internet world as the dreaded spam.
You can just imagine your cell phone receiving and sending e-mails alerts every fifteen seconds. That would be a complete disaster. Not only would that be irritating, it can actually drain your battery every time it downloads incoming e-mails. Aside from the fact that is energy consuming you would relatively notice that your cell phonewould take longer to process the downloads and its other regular tasks. You would also have to manually delete all of these junk mails by yourself.
So what is the solution to this problem? You might have heard of a lot of spam-filtering software than you can use on your usual e-mail system when you're on your computer or laptop. Unfortunately for those who need to check their e-mails via their cell phones, most spam-filtering application sold on the Internet lack the capabilities to filter out junk e-mails on a cell phone's system.
A software actually exists that can be used for filtering e-mails sent through cell phones. SpamArrest, an online service, actually works as a traffic cop that prevents junk mails from being sent to your phone. A server would be accepting all of your incoming emails. It would only allow e-mails to go through when the systems recognize a familiar e-mail address that is already included in your contact list or approved list.
If an anonymous or new email address appears on its system, it would send out an email to that sender requesting for him or her to click on a link to verify whether or not the e-mail is coming from a bot or not. Automated systems that are used for spamming don't have the capacity to pass through the verification process and thus, would not have the chance to send e-mails to your inbox and cell phone. Once approved, then you would be receiving e-mails from the approved person. Senders need to go through the verification process only once.
How to get SpamArrest to work on your phone? Firstly, you need to call up your Internet service provider and request that you have all your e-mail forwarded to SpamArrest. Next step, configure your phone to retrieve and download your e-mails through the SpamArrest server. The service would cost you $44.95/ year but if you want a cheaper solution, you can try Vanquish vqME for almost half that price.
If you were looking for a no-cost solution to cell phone e-mail spams, you can simply change your e-mail address and create a new one. Make sure that you only send your e-mail address to your friends, family and business associates. This way, only those people that you know would be able to send e-mails to your cell phone. Make sure not to give your new e-mail address during website sign-ups.
So if you are having a trouble with spams on your cell phone, it's not the end of the world. There is always a solution to any problem!
