Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Hotmail Unveils Spam Sorting Updates

Hotmail is still around, only in box you are wondering. It is the initial e-mail service for many people who attempted the Internet in its dial-up babyhood and Microsoft is reminding its millions of users that they still have a Hotmail account. This time, the service comes with new features that includes an Android app with two-way e-mail, meeting and monthly calendar syncing.

There are moreover a few updates on Hotmail's web interface. Users can right away classify incoming letter as "gray mail," such as newsletters they sealed in but do not worry to read. These gray mail, that according to Microsoft make up half of the e-mail inbox, can automatically be sorted in to a printed matter or be put in to the trash. There is moreover an "Unsubscribe" underline that lets Hotmail inhibit future newsletters and even inquire the sender to pleasantly end sending serve spam mail.

Users can moreover let Hotmail automatically dwindle messages with a specific theme line or from a established sender. These flagged messages will shot up at the tip of the inbox so they will not obtain inundated with the liquid of incoming mail.

The "Scheduled Cleanup" underline deletes messages automatically after established number of days have passed. This is endorsed for e-mails from every day deals companies similar to Groupon and LivingSocial. Other updates add the inline capability to succeed and amend folders and request categories to e-mails, together with "Instant Actions" such as "delete" and "flag" that be present when users float over messages.

Source: Windows Stream Blog , around Engadget

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