[colug-432] google spam filters eating our threads

[Rick Troth]

On 02/12/2017 07:22 PM, Rick Hornsby wrote:
>>
>>     The normally very good Google mail spam filters are eating not
>>     just individual posts to COLUG, but now entire threads are
>>     landing there. Not cool.
>>
>>
>> If you use Google mail filters, there is now an option for "Never
>> send it to Spam" that I have found useful for mailing lists.  It will
>> still display a message saying it would have sent it to spam, but it
>> goes to the label and not spam.
>
> Thanks for that! I don't use the gmail web ui much anymore, so I
> wasn't even aware this was an option now.

I use the web interface to GMail, Yahoo, MSN/Hotmail, ... when forced to
for purposes of setting extra stuff like this. Maybe it gives them a way
to present requisite advertising. (Since they *are* free services.)
Really thankful that I can use IMAP/SMTP (usu with SSL) to do the real
work.

I've never used IMAP to man-handle spam. I've always gone to the GMail
spam folder and marked non-spam accordingly.

Curious if the spam problem is reduced when using the ultra-secure email
services (e.g. Protonmail, Lavabit, Hushmail).

-- R; <><



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