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"  This post was written by Danielle Gold, the Good Housekeeping Research Institute&amp;#039;s summer editorial intern. When not assisting Chris Malloy and Miriam Arond with their work, she studies Media at Hunter College in New York City. At the Good Housekeeping Research Institute, one of our goals is to help you stay organized and clutter free by recommending innovative products. We know that one of your frustrations is sifting through piles of unsolicited mail and increasingly, the digital equivalent called spam. In fact, approximately 40 billion spam emails were sent per day in June 2011. Here are some tips for keeping your inbox clean. The simplest way to avoid junk email, whether you use Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM.com Mail, Hotmail or Gmail, is to use spam blocking or filtering features offered by your email provider. If you don&amp;#039;t have a spam folder already set up in your email account or if you want to intensify the spam filters, I suggest that you do a quick search in the Help window to locate your spam settings. Most email services also allow you to flag messages that slip through the cracks, allowing you to manually block shady solicitors. Services that censor unwanted email generally work by utilizing a combination of user feedback and a search for bulk mailings and suspicious phrases.  If your email provider doesn&amp;#039;t offer filtering or you&amp;#039;re particularly inundated with junk mail, you might want to consider using a 3rd party service, which will use its own programming to screen your messages after forwarding them to a secure server. Some services that do this include SpamAssassin, Spam Reader, Spamfence and POPFile.  You can also proactively opt out of receiving unsolicited commercial emails from the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) with its DMAChoice Program, which will get rid of unwanted email from many national companies. Catalog Choice offers a similar service to help you opt out of unnecessary emails. These sites can also prevent physical junk mail.\u2028\u2028 In general, a good rule of thumb is to limit the sites to which you give your email address. Only enter it on trusted sites that you&amp;#039;re sure won&amp;#039;t be giving it out for any reason beyond the intended purpose intended. To learn more about how to protect yourself online, see tips from Rachel Rothman. Most services, regardless of their source, claim to block well over 90% of spam emails. But spam isn&amp;#039;t the only source of email disorganization. Check out Amy Robert&amp;#039;s advice on how to clean up your inbox. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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