Though you can create rules in Gmail to automatically route email to the Trash or Spam folder, Outlook makes it all the more simple - you can right click any email message and say “Add Sender to Blocked Senders List”.Īlternatively, you can block email from entire web domains (abc.com) or Top Level Domains (like. Sometimes I find it more efficient than Googling a person’s name. Once you start using this LinkedIn feature in Outlook, you’ll almost get addicted to it.
You can hover the mouse over this link to learn more about sender of the email provided he or she has a profile on LinkedIn. The excellent LinkedIn Toolbar for Outlook adds a small “info” link to each of your email messages. Google and Microsoft are technically not working together to build a common email spam management solution but with Outlook and Gmail, you indirectly get the best of both worlds. Now Microsoft too provides their own junk email filters in Outlook so the chances are very high that spam which manages to fool Gmail will get caught by Outlook Junk email filters. Gmail spam filters are excellent but not perfect so spam can still sneak into your Inbox. Therefore you can easily discover emails that clog your Gmail Inbox and delete them inside Outlook -the bulky message will immediately disappear from Gmail servers too.Ĭleaning up the inbox was extremely inconvenient when Gmail provided only POP3 access. Microsoft Outlook lets you search emails based on the size of the message. Though Outlook with Gmail IMAP can sometimes become painfully slow, there are still plenty of reasons to continue using Outlook as a Gmail Message Reader - you get less spam, more storage space and more.
Ever since Google added IMAP support in Gmail, I have almost stopped visiting the Gmail website and manage all my email inside Microsoft Outlook.
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