Comments on: Gmail Marks Legitimate Emails as SPAM! How To Correct This?

By: MAC

MAC — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:22:51 +0000

Whatever changed recently (June 2011?) has been a terrible mistake. Perhaps Google wants us to think the system ‘learns’ like the iPhone auto fill, but that is certainly not the case with my account. Same addresses end up as spam regardless of how many times I ID them as ‘Not Spam’. This ranks right up there with trying to decipher the differences between GMail Phone, Google Voice and Google Chat but that’s another topic…:). Acting like Microsoft more and more every day.

By: StevenM199

StevenM199 — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:26:02 +0000

I’ve had to create a Yahoo account because I’ve spent the last three months trying to “train” G-Mail to stop marking 90% of my e-mail as spam. So far, nothing has worked. It continues to mark legitimate e-mail as spam. This happens every day. As far as adding every address to my contact list, I can’t do that when I request information about something (such as searching for a new car with specific options as I’m doing right now) until I have received the e-mails from the salesperson. All of those are being marked as spam as well as messages from people who are already in my contact list. I’ve been using GMail for YEARS and have been very happy with it, I just need to get this problem fixed or else I’ll have to close my two GMail accounts. By the way, I use two accounts and they both started doing this at the exact same time, which was in June 2010. This wasn’t a gradual change, it was a huge change that literally happened “overnight”. There is a serious problem with GMail’s spam utility.

By: Perfektphoto

Perfektphoto — Thu, 27 May 2010 21:01:20 +0000

Does anyone know if the spam settings are affected by other gmail users who mark messages as spam? If enough users mark a sender as a spammer, will that affect his messages going to my account? I guess the question is – does the gmail spam filer work globally for all users?

By: Rasha

Rasha — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:31:32 +0000

My non-gmail messages go straight into gmail recipient’s Spam bucket and so far I have not been able to get an answer why this is or how to resolve it.

My mail server uses SPF, is not an open relay, does not send bulk e-mail, uses a static IP on a reputable business ISP, and has years of successful e-mail history.

I opened a new gmail account and sent a message into it and it went to Spam.

I am willing to work with gmail to identify and resolve the problem but so far they are a arbitrarily monolith that spits out solutions that don’t fit the problem.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:59:35 +0000

Gmail spam sucks, I agree.

I keep marking email as Not Spam and Gmail sitill sends them to the spam.

I am sure I have lost many emails because of that!

By: Aleksis

Aleksis — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:12:00 +0000

I have a constant problem that my friend’s e-mail ir labeled by Gmail as a spam. I have market it as “Not spamt” many times, this e-mail is in my contact list, I have even put it for forwarding list to my other e-mail. And without results.
I love gmail, but this thing makes me crazy.

By: Luis Santana

Luis Santana — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:58:09 +0000

I have gmail and I use Outlook to read my emails but I noticed i currently have over 1000 emails in my spam folder how can I get my spam email onto outlokk so I can filter it and make my non spam emails?

Thank you