Today I almost said Goodbye to spam in my Gmail account. Gmail is my favourite email service since it’s launch back in April 2004. The only thing I complain about Gmail is its User Interface. I didn’t mean their technology or features I mean their look. When it comes to GUI my vote goes for Yahoo! though I hate their banner ads and the text links. They are more keen to sell ads than to provide their email as a service. But Gmail considers their email as an addon or a service. Hence they use only text ads and no image ads too. I wont complain about that too as they are relevant to the topic.

I appreciate the SPAM filter of Gmail. They are catching each and every single SPAM I receive. BUT I hate one feature of that SPAM feature which is the "spam count".

That’s irritating me a lot. Because I do receive a lot of SPAM mails. So that whenever I Login to Gmail I have something left there in SPAM. So I have to check that folder every time I login. Once logged in I usually kept that open so that I need to check SPAM folder whenever I get a SPAM which I receive a SPAM every 10 minutes or so.

How I found a solutions to this? Today, I have came to know to about the IN:FOLDER criteria. It can be used to create a filter so that I can mark all emails I receive in SPAM Folder as "read". So the unread SPAM count wont appear.

Before I say how to do that. I must say that this works for the NEW Gmail Version only. As there is no option that says "Mark as read" in the Actions. But once you setup this filter you can switch back to the Old Version as it sill works for you.

Just Create a new filter and Enter "IN:SPAM" in the "Has the words:" field and click "Next Step".

Check the box that says "Mark as read" and click "Create Filter". And you are done.

If your email is not upgraded to the new version yet. Then try Gmail Spam Count Hide.

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