For most of us, email has become such an ingrained part of our lives, it is hard to imagine life without it.
If you work from a computer terminal, you likely send dozens of emails a day, hundreds a week and thousands per year, but for every email you send, you likely get several unwanted emails in return.
This unwanted email is known as spam, and it is one of the biggest headaches of the Internet age.
Different email programs try to deal with the scourge of spam in different ways.
Some try spam blocking software that is supposed to weed out the unwanted mail from the ones that you need, but more times than not, this software ends up sending important notices into the garbage.
Other programs attempt to compile master lists of spam email addresses in hopes of screening out unwanted mail, but new addresses are made so quickly, this process is simply not comprehensive enough.
As most experienced email users can tell you, the only way to really deal with this problem is to contact each spam sender personally and have your account removed from their lists.
The only problem is that many of these spammers don't want to be contacted, and simply hitting the reply button won't cut it.
You need to know the company name behind the spam so that you can contact them directly and end their assault on your inbox.
The next time you need to search for an email there are online tools that can help.
Once you are able to pinpoint the owner of the spam email address that is filling up your inbox, you'll have the ability to put an end to this harassment once and for all.
Your privacy is too important and your email is too valuable to trust to anyone else.