How to stop the flood of junk mails (spam mails) from flowing into our mailboxes?

How to stop the flood of junk mails (spam mails) from flowing into our mailboxes? Two tricks are available for this.

Do you know that my mailbox and other colleagues' mailboxes have been flooded by junk mails from spammers? In YSU (Yogyakarta State University aka Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, previously known as IKIP Yogyakarta) here we can have a limited space mailbox if we want to have it. The email address will be in the form of @uny.ac.id. The space is usually 10 Megs. This is comparatively far far smaller than the space provided by free email providers, such as Gmail and Yahoo!. With high daily junk mail flow rate, then we will have additional daily job: removing junk mail spam.

How to solve this? Two tricks are available for this case: 1. Use thunderbird mail client; 2. Use Gmail as spam filterer.

Let's begin with the first method. Follow these steps please:

1. Download and instal Mozilla Thunderbird.
2. In the case of mail.uny.ac.id mailserver, we are able to create pop and/or imap connection to the server. Choose either or both connection. Each has its own setting to enter in the installed Mozilla Thunderbird.
3. Connect using imap connection, I prefer this connection because it is able to directly process folder in the server and at the same time we can have a copy folder in our computer. Open the inbox folder, then you begin to train the Thunderbird to identify which emails are spam, which ones are not.
4. When the data is enough, the Thunderbird will eventually automatically recognize whether an email is spam or not. When it is spam, we can automatically instruct the Thunderbird to move it to junk folder. Of course, we should first create a junk folder.
   

Now, what about the second method? In this method, we should contact mail administrator for email URL for management purpose. I forgot the URL for the case of YSU, but at that time when I opened the URL, I could command the server to forward the email to my email account at Googgle Mail (Gmail). There, we have an option whether we want to have a copy or not in YSU mail server. In my case, I prefer to have a copy. This way, when I receive an email to my YSU server, the mail is saved in the inbox and at the same time it is also forwarded to my gmail account. Upon arriving at Gmail account, it will be processed with advanced spam mail processor. Nearly all spam mails are recognized by Gmail, although sometimes I found one or two emails which are not spam but categorized as spam by Gmail. In this case, I can also command Gmail not to categorize the email as spam, and Gmail will learn from my help (I think).

In summary, at least there are two tricks of countering the flood of junk mails. The first is by using Mozilla thunderbird mail client, the second is by forwarding to gmail or yahoo. Both methods are free! Yet, I prefer the second method.

Flood season here in Indonesia!

It is flood season! This become the prove that our education content fails to create people with good environmental awareness. Why flood occurs? It is because we no longer have enough trees (or forests) to retain water from directly go to the sea. Why do they continue to deforestate (to cut trees)? Don't they understand from elementary school education that deforestation causes flood and land abrasion? Of course, they do understand this. But they are blinded by money from deforestation. They need money to be able to live glamorously. They do not care about people suffering from flooding and land abrasion. "As long as I have too much money, flooding is no problem. With my money I can buy a helicopter. Using the heli, I can see the flood from the sky! I will still be able to see great scenery: flood every where!" one of them says.

The calamity occurs and continue to occur. No prompt action taken by the authority here. They are very busy in counting the loss caused by the flood. Counting and keep counting until one day Jakarta will be drown by big flood. This is the time when the authority is drown by their own mismanagement of this beloved country, Indonesia. Good bye the authority! Have a nice big flood!

Life Insurace

I still don't have life insurance. But, recently, I have visited this kind of company, Advantage Life Insurance, http://www.advantagetermlife.com/. The site has interactive form at its homepage, facilitating user to try which insurance option will be best fit tho their needs. The difficulty for me (nurkhamid, the author of this blog) to join the company is that I still have not inclined to insure my life. I still believe in myself and in God (that He will give the best for me).

However in terms of the opinion that man should prepare their best in their life, it seems that to have life insurance is one kind of this realization. Of course, this should be planned based on the income. In the form, given in the website,
http://www.advantagetermlife.com/, the option for the amount is very flexible, ranging from $50,000 to $5,000,000. This indicate that Advantage Life Insurance, http://www.advantagetermlife.com/ shows its flexibility from the first place.

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