Comments on: Gmail Viagra Spam = Sucks http://www.chemlab.org/2010/02/01/gmail-viagra-spam-sucks what the hell happened??? Sat, 07 Aug 2010 23:46:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Pedro Stephano http://www.chemlab.org/2010/02/01/gmail-viagra-spam-sucks/comment-page-1#comment-218 Pedro Stephano Sat, 07 Aug 2010 23:46:01 +0000 http://www.chemlab.org/?p=382#comment-218 <a href="#comment-214" rel="nofollow">@Michael Leggett</a> @MichaelLegget thanks for your post. I for one, having become a gmail-system customer when virgin swapped over to gmail, have recently discovered that it is *Very Worthwhile* to check my spam folders regularly. I have one email account that I use for my work emails, and found Useful Emails mistakenly placed into Spam folder without my knowledge or consent. Hence have I filtered All Mail to be Not Filtered Into Spam and instead be POP'ed into my outlook where I spam filter it myself. This means I control my emails; I had found no less than three important customer emails fallen into my Spam folder in the three week period before I activated these changes. Lesson - when someone changes your email system, don't take their advice at face value - check *all* your settings. @Michael Leggett
@MichaelLegget thanks for your post. I for one, having become a gmail-system customer when virgin swapped over to gmail, have recently discovered that it is *Very Worthwhile* to check my spam folders regularly. I have one email account that I use for my work emails, and found Useful Emails mistakenly placed into Spam folder without my knowledge or consent. Hence have I filtered All Mail to be Not Filtered Into Spam and instead be POP’ed into my outlook where I spam filter it myself. This means I control my emails; I had found no less than three important customer emails fallen into my Spam folder in the three week period before I activated these changes. Lesson – when someone changes your email system, don’t take their advice at face value – check *all* your settings.

]]> By: Michael Leggett http://www.chemlab.org/2010/02/01/gmail-viagra-spam-sucks/comment-page-1#comment-214 Michael Leggett Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:15:37 +0000 http://www.chemlab.org/?p=382#comment-214 Hi there. I'm a designer on Gmail and saw a link to this post. Thought I'd clarify a few things. - Your search shows items that are marked as Spam by Gmail and put in the Spam folder and will never show up anywhere else. So, users are complaining about the stuff in their Spam folder? I don't know anyone that uses Gmail and still checks their Spam folder. Are you seeing false positives? - Mail in your spam folder is deleted as soon as it is 30 days old. You don't have to clean out this folder. Same applies to the trash. - Filters that search on "is:spam" won't actually match anything on receipt. Filters are run before mail is classified (so it can do things like "Never send it to spam." - You only want to filter to "Never send it to spam" that aren't spam. For instance, maybe you sell Vi*gra and you want to see what the competition is advertising. You want to get all the ads for vi*gra and therefore might set up a filter to never send mail that mentions vi*gra to spam, but instead put it in another label. Hi there. I’m a designer on Gmail and saw a link to this post. Thought I’d clarify a few things.

– Your search shows items that are marked as Spam by Gmail and put in the Spam folder and will never show up anywhere else. So, users are complaining about the stuff in their Spam folder? I don’t know anyone that uses Gmail and still checks their Spam folder. Are you seeing false positives?

– Mail in your spam folder is deleted as soon as it is 30 days old. You don’t have to clean out this folder. Same applies to the trash.

– Filters that search on “is:spam” won’t actually match anything on receipt. Filters are run before mail is classified (so it can do things like “Never send it to spam.”

– You only want to filter to “Never send it to spam” that aren’t spam. For instance, maybe you sell Vi*gra and you want to see what the competition is advertising. You want to get all the ads for vi*gra and therefore might set up a filter to never send mail that mentions vi*gra to spam, but instead put it in another label.

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