Ray, Are you sure that this is the explanation? Did you find more recently bcc'ed email in the spam folder? It certainly isn't the case that you can only receive emails from addresses that are already in your contacts list.
Kenneth On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Ray Lopez <raylope...@gmail.com> wrote: > For years I've been using Gmail to backup emails, even automating the > procedure. Also I often, for important emails, "bcc" my Gmail account. > > Recently I tried to find certain important emails sent to Gmail, that I > kept in Outlook. From the original email I could see that I had bcc'd my > Gmail account. > > They were not found in Gmail. That's bad. > > I finally figured out why, and thus this post: I had not entered my own > email from my ISP/domain in my Gmail address book. Since Gmail does not > allow you to 'turn off' the spam filter, a lot of my important emails, over > the years, had been identified as "spam" coming from my ISP/domain, and > after XYZ days deleted. Of course the remedy is to make sure that you, > yourself, are listed in your Gmail address book, to make sure nothing sent > by yourself to your Gmail account is automatically sent to the Spam folder. > > I lost countless important emails from this stupid Google prohibition (and > don't get me started about how password protected Zip files will be bounced > by Gmail, or anything that has source code in it). > > Really important work emails I've kept in Outlook, so I did not lose > anything really important, but I did lose a bunch of important personal > emails sent to Gmail in the mistaken belief they would be safe. > > FYI. You lern something neu everyday, sometimes the hard way. > > RL > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
