Ray, Your linked article says a few things that are not entirely true. The comment about contacts are never sent to spam... is straight from GMail's help pages, but in practice I've found this to be false. Probably because of the other problem he's got in there... he implies that gmail filters work sequentially on messages, which GMail says is false. I have proven that they act "simultaneously" on messages, usually to my advantage, but if you have a filter that says "never send to spam" and another filter that acts on messages "label:spam" (which they tell you won't work, but it does), if something comes in that would be auto-labelled as spam, the second filter works, despite the fact the first filter REMOVED the spam label.
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Ray Lopez <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > -- 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.
