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An email box folder filled with spam messages.. Email spam, also referred to as junk email, spam mail, or simply spam, is unsolicited messages sent in bulk by email ().The name comes from a Monty Python sketch in which the name of the canned pork product Spam is ubiquitous, unavoidable, and repetitive. [1]
An email inbox containing a large amount of spam messages. Spamming is the use of messaging systems to send multiple unsolicited messages (spam) to large numbers of recipients for the purpose of commercial advertising, non-commercial proselytizing, or any prohibited purpose (especially phishing), or simply repeatedly sending the same message to the same user.
On Internet usage, an email bomb is a form of net abuse that sends large volumes of email to an address to overflow the mailbox, [1] [2] overwhelm the server where the email address is hosted in a denial-of-service attack [3] or as a smoke screen to distract the attention from important email messages indicating a security breach.
Gmail is the email service provided by Google.As of 2019, it had 1.5 billion active users worldwide, making it the largest email service in the world. [1] It also provides a webmail interface, accessible through a web browser, and is also accessible through the official mobile application.
In Gmail, you can do this by clicking the square to the left of whichever email you want filtered, then selecting Report Spam from the top bar (the button looks like a stop sign with an ...
Spam filters often include the ability to "whitelist" certain sender IP addresses, email addresses or domain names to protect their email from being rejected or sent to a junk mail folder. These can be manually maintained by the user [ 1 ] or system administrator - but can also refer to externally maintained whitelist services.
Email spoofing is the creation of email messages with a forged sender address. [1] The term applies to email purporting to be from an address which is not actually the sender's; mail sent in reply to that address may bounce or be delivered to an unrelated party whose identity has been faked.
The history of email spam reaches back to the mid-1990s when commercial use of the internet first became possible [1] [2] - and marketers and publicists began to test what was possible. Very soon email spam was ubiquitous, unavoidable and repetitive. [3] This article details significant events in the history of spam, and the efforts made to ...