Le Journal de la Peek has some excellent advice about setting up your e-mail accounts on the Peek, and how you can make it work with unsupported work e-mail accounts (my company uses Microsoft Exchange, which is not supported) and with your everyday private accounts…
What about our personal email? That’s where I correspond with family, but also it’s where mail arrives from spammers who feel my genitals are too short or too limp, or from Nigerian con artists who want our help with their multi-million dollar schemes. So we found we had to use another Google account as a filtration system, allowing only family and friends to make it into the Peek.
Basically, it’s a good idea — before your Peek even arrives — to set up a new Gmail account or other free e-mail account to serve as your “Peek account.” This way, you can have complete control over what appears in your Peek inbox, eliminating most if not all spam. Just take your existing e-mail account that you use all the time, and create rules or filters that control what gets forwarded to your new e-mail account you’ll be using as a primary Peek account.
For example, my primary private account on Gmail is, say, lulu@gmail.com. I log into lulu@gmail.com and create a bunch of filters for “safe” senders (basically a whitelist) like family and friends, or any e-mail news alert services I might like. I tell lulu@gmail.com to forward a copy of the safe mail to lulu2@gmail.com — the new “Peek account” I have set up.
It takes just a few minutes to do. And when your Peek arrives, you’ll already have this new, “clean” account all ready to go and to register with Peek.
