Andy, Thanks for the advice, but the horse is out of the barn. A dollar short and a day late.
The only thing 'non-kosher' I'm doing that I can think of is on occasion I use a proxy server to spoof where I'm logging in from (right now I'm using a Japan proxy server, so from the header it looks like I'm in Japan). So, if the same proxy server is also being used a lot by spammers, my emails from the proxy server might be flagged automatically as spam. But I rarely use a proxy server, typically only when I am on the road or in a public cafe, for security purposes, since the proxy server service I subscribe to uses https (BTW I pay a monthly fee to this proxy server, I have found GoTrusted is a good company and cheaper than Hide My Ass, another such company). As for the spam filter and "People" trick I linked to, your advice seems to contradict the linked author's advice. Don't know who is right. As for periodically checking, Google email should be a "set it and forget it" service, easy to use, but I guess it's not. RL On Saturday, July 20, 2013 1:40:21 AM UTC+8, Andy wrote: > > Ray, > > I think you need to investigate why your emails are ending up flagged as > Spam. > > Unless the content of your emails was spam-like, perhaps there is > something non-kosher going on in the headers, that is causing them to be > flagged as suspicious. Maybe things are not configured correctly in the > system from which you have been sending those emails. > > Gmail also gives you a clue when you open a message in Spam, why it went > there. > > Your message implies that adding people to your Gmail address book is the > only way to have them not go to Spam. That is of course not true. And it > is not why your emails ended up in Spam. > > Remember that Gmail's spam filtering is a learning filter. If at some > point you marked some of your own emails as spam, it will remember that, > and try to do the same in the future. Likewise, by marking them as "not > spam", you help train your spam filter to not put them there. > > Filters can be used to keep all your own emails out of Spam. Filter on > "from" and your other email address, and then click the "Never send to > Spam" button. > > I do agree that you should have been periodically checking your own > archive account ... just like anyone running a backup process needs to > occasionally check that the process is running and that the backups are > usable. > > Andy > > > -- 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.
