I see a few things to be concerned with here:
1) GMail expects you to use it's built-in spam detection (it's a lot more
expansive than what LK described, BTW). Building your own spam detection net
via filters is likely to result in a lot of bad effects.
2) Filters have nothing to do with SPAM,
Joseph Sinclair wrote, in part:
Seriously, are you really getting that much spam in your gmail account?
Yes! It's incredible ... 300-400 every day (if I don't use filters to send
the worst of this garbage to trash) ... and it almost always includes 1 or 2
or more legitimate email messages that
Joseph Sinclair wrote:
... filters almost always return more matches than you would expect
unless you make them really tightly controlled (i.e.
listid:some-single-word-id,
with quotes to limit expansion, NOT subject:blah).
PS: I do make those filters really tightly controlled as you
I feel your pain, I've made similar suggestions to the GMail team several
times, and never got a positive result (partly because there is too much other
work to do to get it to the reliability required to exit beta). There's a base
philosophy behind GMail that nothing should ever be really
I've searched the 'net and tried Gmail forums, but can't find
any help anywhere else, so I'll try the best source, even though
this is OT.
1. Every day, I have some legitimate email that Gmail sends
to spam, so I still have to go through it every day to retrieve
those legitimate items.
2. Having
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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:43:45 -0700
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Subject: OT: Gmail filter errors
I've searched the 'net and tried Gmail forums, but can't find
any help anywhere
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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:43:45 -0700
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Subject: OT: Gmail filter errors
I've searched the 'net and tried
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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:43:45 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: OT: Gmail filter errors
I've searched the 'net and tried Gmail forums
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Subject: OT: Gmail filter errors
I've searched the 'net and tried Gmail forums, but can't find
any help anywhere else, so I'll try the best source, even though
this is OT.
1. Every day, I have some legitimate email that Gmail sends
: Gmail filter errors
I've searched the 'net and tried Gmail forums, but can't find
any help anywhere else, so I'll try the best source, even though
this is OT.
1. Every day, I have some legitimate email that Gmail sends
to spam, so I still have to go through it every day
On 10/10/08, Shawn Badger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use gmail and the Tuna's email didn't appear in my spam box. Just curious
are you saying not spam to the messages that are misdirected?
Yes, I do check not spam to messages the show up in the spam folder
that are not spam. But they keep
What are your rules?
Can you post them for us?
I am sure that a [EMAIL PROTECTED] might be able to quickly tell you the issue?
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:17:01 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: OT: Gmail filter errors
On 10/10/08
On 10/10/08, Lisa Kachold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What are your rules?
Can you post them for us?
Here's the list of subjects for which I've created filters:
http://www.upquick.com/view/gmail.filters
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