A local newsletter I open every day. Those emails and 82 others were among the legitimate messages I fished out of my Gmail Spam folder on Monday morning. From the looks of it, I'm not alone.

If you primarily use Yahoo Mail on your phone, the storage check is just as easy: Open the Yahoo Mail app on iOS or Android.

Use Gmail's new subscription management tool to view all recurring senders and unsubscribe from unwanted emails easily.

Hit “See all settings,” and tab over to “Inbox,” then under “Inbox type,” check “Unread first.” This helpful arrangement brings all unread emails to the top of your queue, making ...

The goal of all of my filters is to move irrelevant email from my Inbox, often marking those messages as read. The email is still there if I search for it, but otherwise I’m not bothered knowing ...