Most spam filters work by assigning a system of points to particular words or other attributes of spam. When an email reaches a certain threshold of points, it is labeled spam (rightly or wrongly). Google also works by crowdsourcing. You can label any email in your inbox as spam. If enough people do that, Google figures out the commonalities and labels such email as spam for others.
I really hate to even look in the spam filter, but I have found legitimate mail in my Gmail spam folder when I have thought to check it. Steve's suggestion can be extended to the setting up of explicit filters for various lists. For example: Mailed-by: pdml.net always is put in a "pdml" folder (rather than just the inbox). On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 4:00 PM, steve harley <p...@paper-ape.com> wrote: > on 2014-11-24 14:24 Brian Walters wrote >> >> Is there any way to tell Gmail 'hands off' and don't mark anything as spam >> unless I tell it to? > > > <http://joe.siegler.net/2013/03/turning-off-spam-checking-in-gmail/> > > summary: > > set up a filter on the search "is:spam" and set it to "Never send it to > Spam" > > note the last comment though — you'll have to try it to see > > if you have a sufficiently flexible IMAP client, you could also try > subscribing it to each Gmail account's spam folder, in addition to your > forwardee account > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
