How often you check your junk or bulk mail folder?

United States
January 22, 2007 2:19pm CST
Whenever I check my mail, I check my junk or bulk folder. Because many time it happens that my important mail also come to that folder. Why it happens I don't know. So, I make sure to check my bulk folder. Otherwise I can miss some important mail. What about you? Do you check it regularly or you ignore it?
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22 responses
@BittyBiddy (2903)
• Ireland
22 Jan 07
My goodness I never check it and I just had a quick glance there when you mentioned it and realised that I have 10,000 e-mails in it. *blush*. I've just deleted them all.
• United States
23 Jan 07
ohhh you never checked it! Hope you have not lose any important mail in there. Thanks for the response.
• United States
22 Jan 07
I usually ignore it, but seems like I should be checking it, too see if any of my important emails are going in that folder. Thanks
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• United States
23 Jan 07
You should not totaly ignore it. Make sure that atleast 2-3 days a month you check it. Thaks for your respose.
@asadahsan (723)
• Pakistan
26 Jan 07
well i checked daily and delete daily to i hate spam and bulk mails only few i checked which are related to my work otherwise select all and delete all...
@sunshinecup (7871)
22 Jan 07
I have to check it every day or else some of mylot mail goes in there. I don't get it, most goes to the in box, but every now again, I will get a "New Message Posted Notify" in the bulk mail. :-( I reckon it's like 1 in every 15. Strange.
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• United States
23 Jan 07
It happens to me too. It's iritating if you have to check 2 different kind of folder at the same time for same purpose. Thanks for your reponse sunshinecup.
• Canada
22 Jan 07
I check my junkmail as often as I check my inbox. For some odd reason, most of my spam goes into my inbox while the mail I need goes into my junkmail folder. I think hotmail hates me.
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• United States
22 Jan 07
Ohh this is very oposite:). Thanks for your response BlondeDitz.
@adidas7878 (1891)
• United States
16 Mar 07
like i said before, all of mylot mail i got from mylot went stright to my bulk folder, so i have to check them out once a while, like once every couple days make sure i dont miss anything important, i guess it all depend what service you have i guess that is how you look at it
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@wiessied (646)
• United States
26 Jan 07
I dont check it very often i usally just empty it everyday,but at times when i have checked it i noticed that some mail there wasnt junk mail,but i still do not check it often.
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@missyd79 (3438)
• United States
23 Jan 07
i check it about once a week, but usually there is nothing in there that was very important.
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@UcoksBaBa (800)
• Indonesia
26 Jan 07
I always open my junk and bulk mail folder and every one hour i got two spam email if i am not opened in one day i have many spam email and this make me fed up with that, so i will ignored that spam mail, i already blocked for spam mail but the spam always come to my mail box then until make me so bad, but my teori for that spam mail i will deleted and ignored them.
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26 Jan 07
I do the same. I don't like to ignore it incase something important has been sent there by accident which often happens. I also don't like to see it building up, it makes me feel untidy lol.
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• United States
26 Jan 07
I check my junk mail at least once a day because sometimes a good email will go there and I need to retrieve it back to my inbox. I try to put important emails on my "safe list" but every now and then one of them ends up in the junk folder.
@WebMann (4731)
• Canada
23 Jan 07
Hello again SweetLady I have my email set to check every 15 minutes. I have a home office and my business is online so I check frequently for contacts from my clients. Sometimes their messages end up in the junk. It's strange because they may go for weeks and nothing goes in the junk but then one day one or two will. So every time I check my email I also check the junk and delete and then clean it out.
• Philippines
26 Jan 07
Regularly. I'm always online, so I get the habit of cleaning my bulk mail, morning, noon and right before i log-out from work.
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@jeb083079 (839)
• Philippines
26 Jan 07
i regularly check my yahoo bulk folder and delete all spams after checking from the subject if it is a matter of interest to me.
@wmg2006 (5381)
• United States
23 Jan 07
I have to check it everyday. So many of my good emails get sent to that one. And the junk email eats up my allowed MB, so I check it daily and clean it out. I just wish if I mark it as spam, which I do, that it would not show back up the next day.
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• United States
22 Mar 07
I check my junk mail folder every day, and often several times a day. I have my junk mail protection set to high, and if I don't check it every day, sometimes the emails that really matter will get put in the junk mail folder and I won't get them.
@anonymili (3138)
24 Mar 07
Like you I check my bulk/junk mail folders regularly. It can happen that someone you know has changed their email address (maybe cos they were getting too much spam LOL) and are dropping you an email to let you know their new address and it ends up in the bulk/junk mail folder as my inbox is set to only receive emails from people in my address book. That is on my main hotmail account but in my yahoo email accounts, I tend to skim through them very quickly as I receive LOTS of junk mail in there and I never give out my yahoo email to people anyway, mostly it's for things like competition entries... :)
@paulo26 (48)
• Saudi Arabia
21 Mar 07
I always check my bulk folder regularly, it happen to me also that some important mails comes from my bulk folder, but its just annoying to check because its more on deleting than reading the mails. Anyway, there is gold in thrash.
• Philippines
22 Mar 07
I checked my "10 emails" daily. and most of it has atleast 5 valid emails and some spams that gets through my inbox. whew they really sucks. so imaging seeing another atleast 10 mails in my spam folder. i dont give a damn. i just deleted them right there and then.
@iokyoo (143)
• Pakistan
24 Mar 07
everyday i do that.Usually i check the inbox first,than go to junk or bulk folder,looking for the e-mail send by someone i knows.if i can not get anyone,i will empty the folder.