I use the Archived Mail, with several sub-categories and sub-sub categories, to "back up" important mail. I guess if I ever lose my Gmail account and am unable to recover it, I'll be out of luck - but for the time being, the Archived Mail is working well.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Kenneth Ayers <[email protected]>wrote: > Ray, > > Are you sure that this is the explanation? Did you find more recently > bcc'ed email in the spam folder? It certainly isn't the case that you can > only receive emails from addresses that are already in your contacts list. > > Kenneth > > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Ray Lopez <[email protected]> wrote: > >> For years I've been using Gmail to backup emails, even automating the >> procedure. Also I often, for important emails, "bcc" my Gmail account. >> >> Recently I tried to find certain important emails sent to Gmail, that I >> kept in Outlook. From the original email I could see that I had bcc'd my >> Gmail account. >> >> They were not found in Gmail. That's bad. >> >> I finally figured out why, and thus this post: I had not entered my own >> email from my ISP/domain in my Gmail address book. Since Gmail does not >> allow you to 'turn off' the spam filter, a lot of my important emails, over >> the years, had been identified as "spam" coming from my ISP/domain, and >> after XYZ days deleted. Of course the remedy is to make sure that you, >> yourself, are listed in your Gmail address book, to make sure nothing sent >> by yourself to your Gmail account is automatically sent to the Spam folder. >> >> I lost countless important emails from this stupid Google prohibition >> (and don't get me started about how password protected Zip files will be >> bounced by Gmail, or anything that has source code in it). >> >> Really important work emails I've kept in Outlook, so I did not lose >> anything really important, but I did lose a bunch of important personal >> emails sent to Gmail in the mistaken belief they would be safe. >> >> FYI. You lern something neu everyday, sometimes the hard way. >> >> RL >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Gmail-Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
