OT: dealing with spam

JFGI!

Reply to
Terry Casey
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Reply to
dennis

Ok then. Seriously, in the first couple of years I checked it fairly regularly and honestly found no more than two in that time, out of many hundreds of emails. I've checked occasionally since then (especially if someone has sent an email that I know about) and found no FPs at all - in fact, the incidence of email that's just vanished into the aether is more annoying, whatever the ISP/mail provider; but that's an old problem.

Reply to
Grimly Curmudgeon

me too

I seem to get around ten false-positive messages through gmail each month. The frustrating thing was that for a long time it wasn't possible to pick up spam via POP (I hate web interfaces, and use Thunderbird for mail) - Google would automatically delete anything flagged as spam after

30 days and the only way to check it was to try and remember to log into via the web interface on a 30 day (or less) cycle to "un-spam" any false- positives.

That seems to have changed now, thankfully - someone recently pointed me to a filter which would bounce all the things that Google thought were spam via POP too, so now the whole lot arrives in my inbox and I don't miss anything. I'd much rather have the minor overhead of dealing with spam locally each day (Thunderbird correctly handles most of it anyway, with maybe 6 or 7 messages that I have to kick into the junk folder myself) than I would having genuine messages going astray.

(It's hard to judge the false-positive rate as a percentage, but TBH I just want a chance to see all my mail, spam or not, and having *any* genuine messages going walkabout is really unacceptable)

cheers

Jules

Reply to
Jules Richardson

Gmail has given me some headaches, much more so than any other email provider. I sell some shareware software and if people buy a licence I send the registration code to whatever email address the customer provides. However, Gmail went through a long period of treating the registration code emails as spam and I got lots of complaints from people saying they hadn't received the email with the registration code that they had paid for. My replies to their Gmail email complaints sometimes went unheard too - they were also treated as spam by Google. False positives can be a real pain in the arse for both sender and (none) receiver. I don't trust Gmail at all.

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David in Normandy

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