I've been reading the forums for about the last 7 weeks while I decide if moving into something to do with porn is a good idea but this thread has finally made me get round to actually registering.
The Gmail filter started going bonkers for me a while ago and I lost quite a lot of emails into the spam folder without realising as I have Outlook Express fetching the emails to me by POP3 and never log in through the webmail pages.
A solution that will stop things disappearing into spam from where everything is cleaned out after 30 days is to set up a filter in the mail settings.
The bad point about this solution is that every last email that seems to have been written by a comedy Indian that wants you to have success in bed / get a huge member / buy a rolex / meet Natalya the stunning Russian will end up in your inbox instead of being filtered out.
To disable the spam filter
Login to Gmail, make sure the page is set on Standard View, then go to
Settings » Filters » Create a new filter
There are 5 fields
- From:
- To:
- Subject:
- Has the words:
- Doesn't have:
In 'Has the words:' write
is:spam
Then click Next Step, you will then get a popup box saying
Quote:
Warning: Filter searches containing "label:", "in:", or "is:" criteria are not recommended, as these criteria will never match incoming mail.
Do you still wish to continue to the next step?
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Click Ok
On the next page there are 7 tick-boxes
- Skip the Inbox (Archive it)
- Mark as read
- Star it
- Apply the label:
- Forward it to:
- Delete it
- Never send it to Spam
Put a tick in
Never send it to Spam then click Create Filter.
All done. You may now get spammed to death and regret setting up the filter because of that, but you won't lose anything legit that you didn't want deleting automatically without your knowledge.