Gmail's Spam Filter
William (188 points) | Sun, 2005-09-18 07:27A word of warning for all Gmail users.
The Gmail spam filter seems to have become a tad over-zealous recently.
I checked in there and had to pull out at least 50 emails that were wrongly tagged as spam. These included 100% legit emails from collegues that had _no_ indication of being spam, as well as automated emails.
Since then I have found several other blogs warning of the same problem.
Will
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That is definitely the case. I'm not sure what they use to determine spam, but I've also experienced cases where things which were definitely not spam ended up in the spam folder. I do check it once in awhile to see whether anyone's mail ended up there lol.
True, thanks for the heads up. It catches registration info and shopping receipts too. Will check the Spam folder more often.
On the upside, Google's done a great job of protecting my Gmail address from being researched by spammers. I'm very careful about giving out my Gmail address online, since it's my primary account. In ten months, I could almost count the amount of spam I've received on one hand.
I haven't seen a false-positive recently, but it won't be hard to spot.
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Bizarrely I actually get more spam with this account than any other. Still not a lot mind you, guess I get about 10-15 unsolicited emails a week. Compared to half that usually with my .Mac account.
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I think I've had 1 false positive in the last couple weeks and I get tons. I've been forwarding my mediatemple emails to gmail for the filtering actually.
The only problem is now all the spam comes through where mediatemple was filtering some of them and marking others as probably junk (not very well), now I just get everything in 1 folder.
It's a little overwhelming if you don't stay on top of it. From 11 last night to 8 this morning I got 40.
Is there anyway to make mediatemple filter it's "very likely" junk first then forward anything left to gmail?
Remember that gmail is still in BETA. Anyone using gmail as their primary email probably deserves a little "over-zealous" filtering.