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70% of Mail to Gmail is Spam, Less than 1% Gets Through - Here's How

google.com — Gmail fans often cite great spam protection as a key reason they love Gmail. It's relatively easy to catch spam messages; the challenge is to catch the right messages without blocking mail you want along the way. Here's how it's done.

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  • slashbot, on 11/01/2007, -1/+6That's nice, but false positives (though rare), can be a BIG problem.

    I have missed several important e-mails because they got automatically filtered as spam and I didn't check my spam bin. I would rather have a few spam emails get through, than have false positives like this
  • krets, on 11/01/2007, -0/+3So scan your spam folder more often. It doesn't take long to scan through the messages to identify something that shouldn't be in there. I caught a few early on and moved them back to my inbox. Never had that issue again.
  • JonRick, on 11/01/2007, -0/+2I don't know about you, but I've been with gmail for well over 2 years and have had a grand total of ONE false positive, and I get more then 30 or 40 emails a day.
  • whiterabbitobj, on 11/01/2007, -0/+2I've never had a false positive. I checked for two months before I just began to trust it implicitly, since it had not tagged a single email incorrectly out of 10k pieces of spam. You must have told it some things were spam that were not.
  • nexah3, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1They should implement a secondary system that if a certain e-mail is sent to like .1% - 1% (I'm making up numbers) of their user base that it should probably be flagged as spam.
  • inactive, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1Yahoo could learn a lot. Back before like 2000 they filtered their spam pretty good, but once they made it a premium service you had to pay for they let the spam through more for the free accounts.
  • andrewcsayer, on 11/01/2007, -1/+1Where's my IMAP????
  • TheAstronomer, on 11/01/2007, -1/+1Am I the only one who supports the death penalty ONLY for spammers?
  • captaindigger, on 11/01/2007, -1/+0It's also a pain in the ass if you're a web developer and you're trying to get your password, registration emails though without having them end up in the trash bin.
  • Error601, on 11/01/2007, -6/+1It's also the reason it sucks due to a high level of false positives.
  • jasonnazar, on 11/01/2007, -10/+1sheesh 1%! is that spam filter or a sperm filter?

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