Comments on: Gmail Spam Filter Getting Worse

By: ian

ian — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:05:08 +0000

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By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:42:07 +0000

I get spam every day in my gmail account– sometimes more than 5 or 6– always the same old same old and I get no spam whatsoever in my yahoo mail– so WHAT is google doing? I’m going to close my account! It’s a drag!

By: Parrish

Parrish — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:49:25 +0000

To ps: Thank you so much for that link. If only I’d had that solution a year ago.

By: Cristina

Cristina — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:42:07 +0000

I’m receiving a lot of spam recently from my own email address.

By: ps

ps — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:37:51 +0000

here is a solution to disable spam filter:
http://xiirus.net/articles/article-disable-or-bypass-gmails-junk-spam-email-filter-27eja.aspx

By: Parrish

Parrish — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:30:11 +0000

Gmail’s spam filter is far and away the worst I’ve ever seen. It filters around 20–30 emails per day as spam, and the false positive rate is typically 50–60 percent, which is worse than having no filtering at all because false positives can cost you big.

I use a mail client and POP. A while back, when I was unemployed and job hunting, Gmail very kindly and thoughtfully filtered about 80% of all my emailed job offers to the Spam folder, preventing me from ever seeing them. This unnecessarily extended my period of unemployment by weeks at least, probably more like months, and cost me many thousands of dollars of potential income.

None of this would be a problem if there were JUST. AN OPTION. TO TURN OFF. THE DAMN. SPAM. FILTER.

By: Quảng bá website

Quảng bá website — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:06:49 +0000

I am thinking about this resolution:

I have two gmail account: a@gmail.com and b@gmail.com

Login to a@gmail.com -> Setting -> Filters -> Create a new Filter -> type a@gmail.com into the field To: -> click Next Step -> type b@gmail.com into the field Forward it to: -> click Create Filter to finish.

Gmail to gmail so that emails can not be sent to Spam box. But I do not know gmail will apply filter to all box (include Spam box) or to Inbox only?

By: Addy

Addy — Sat, 03 May 2008 22:25:55 +0000

Of course, same problem. Legitimate messages ends up in the spam folder and i lost important business contacts because of this issue. It must be a “disable spam filter” button. It’s so heavy work to disable this filter in google software? I’m a programmer and i KNOW that’s a very easy job. Why there is such politics? Why have pop access if we can lose important emails because of false positives?
This thread must go to google team, it’s a good thing if somebody will make something about that.

By: Angie

Angie — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:35:46 +0000

ARRGH! Too many false positives and I download my emails so I don’t usually get them. I DON’T WANT my spam folder on in Gmail. I’d rather have them downloaded to my email program and bounce them back to the senders, which has cut down on the number of spam I’ve gotten.

Thanks for trying, Gmail. I appreciate it and with my one account, you do a bang-up job but let ME decide if I even WANT you to sort my mail. How do I turn off my Gmail spam filter? Grrr…

By: MichiDutch

MichiDutch — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:41:16 +0000

I have big problems with Gmails spam filter: I have to rescue regular e-mails on a daily basis from the spam folder. I even add these recipients to my contact list, but even that does not seem to work always. I doubt Gmail learns, because every time I click “this email is not spam”, but the same sender might end up in my spam folder AGAIN! It is very frustrating. I think of dumping gmail all together.