How to Automatically Mark Spam Emails As Read in Gmail

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Gmail my favorite Email Service and probably wildly used email service. What I like most about Gmail is mail search facility and spam filter. Till today none of spam mail has been able to break into my inbox. I remember how much it was frustrating to keep inbox free from spam mails on my yahoo email id, but Gmail has made my life much simpler

One thing which still bugs me is that Unread Spam mail count, and every time I open my Gmail inbox I have to mark all spam mail as read or delete it manually. Today while searching for solution to unread spam mail i got really simple trick.

This Trick uses Gmail filter capability to mark all unread spam mails as read.

Steps To Mark All Spam Mails as Read Automatically

Open your Gmail Account then click on settings followed by Create Filter.

Create Filter

Enter “in:spam” in Has word’s Filed of Create filter.

Select Next Step and Check Mark as Read & press Create Filter button. (Check delete if you want to delete Spam Emails automatically although not recommended)

Mark As Read

We have done it, Now see the effect of this filter. All the spam mails will be marked as Read automatically from now on words.

Gmail Unread Spam Emails

No Unread Spam

Note: This will only work with New Gmail Interface.

Source:Howtogeek.com

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Reader Comments

very Nice and informative :D

Written By Siddharth
on June 1st, 2008

Thanks - bookmarked! Can come in handy anytime =)

Written By Haris
on June 1st, 2008

dude you are brilliant!!!

Written By wycito
on August 8th, 2008

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