Hi Andy, I posted a few days ago after exporting 12 yrs worth of Yahoo mail on my MacBook Pro into a Gmail account, and encountered the same problem of Gmail thinking 48 old messages were spam, when they weren't, and getting caught in the endless loop.... I can't recall exactly what I did, only that it involved labeling the improperly-identified messages in the Spam folder (calling the label "e-mails Gmail thinks are spam" or some such), then MOVING the contents of the e-mails with the newly-created label into the in-box from spam, and then deleting the temporary label I just created.
All I know is it worked, and unfortunately I cannot confirm the approach since, I don't have any problems, with no e-mails marked as spam.... If not that, it was something close to that kind of approach. It turns out it's the same kind of approach that resolves another iPhone 4 bug, where the native iPhone mail app gives sorting priority to the most-recently imported e-mails, NOT sorting by the dates of the e-mails themselves (i.e. it ignores the date/time stamps of the e-mails). In that case, I took all 8,000 messages found in the in-box (where they displayed properly on the Gmail browser) and created a temporary label (which I called, "reimported for the sake of the iPhone"), moved the labelled e-mails into the In-box, and deleted the label. My iPhone sorted them properly after that.... Of course, the easier answer is to just run the Gmail iOS app on the iPhone, and let it handle e-mail. Dave On Mar 18, 2014, at 10:21 PM, Andy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:47 AM, DavePeres <[email protected]> wrote: > > I found a solution. > > Create a label (called "email Gmail thinks are spam") and move all the > contents of the spam folder into it. Then move the contents of the new label > into the inbox, and Gmail seems to be able to not think it's spam any longer. > > How is this different than simply moving those messages from Spam to the > Inbox? > > Google has only one chance to mark a message as Spam: when it arrives. Once > it has that opportunity, it can't mark the same message as Spam again. A > different message (that looks the same) might end up in Spam again, but > that's not the same thing. > > Andy > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/gmail-users/B7NwKpegZr0/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/d/optout. -- 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/d/optout.
