interestingly i have had no issues sending email to myself, i do so frequently to save links and the like when im out.
i also am useing only gmail's built-in filters and have created none of my own. On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Josef Lowder <j...@actionline.com> wrote: > On 1/9/09, Charles Jones <charles.jo...@ciscolearning.org> wrote: >> Josef Lowder wrote: >> > I'm about fed up with gmail. One of the most annoying things is that >> > it is (apparently) impossible to create filters that will actually >> > delete (rather than just move garbage emails to trash). This is >> > ridiculous. I'm still getting 100+ garbage spams plus 100+ emails in >> > trash every day and I have to go through all these to make sure that >> > there is nothing in there that should not be; and almost every day I >> > find one or two items in both spam and in trash that should not be >> > there. Valid items in "trash" are my error/responsibility because of >> > my aggressive filtering efforts. This problem could be minimized if >> > not entirely resolved if I only had the ability to actually create a >> > "delete forever" filter for some of the most offensive garbage. >> > >> >> If your current filters are failing and moving legit emails to trash, >> wouldn't the "delete forever" filter be a bad idea? :-) > > No, because, as I explained above, I would l only use a "delete forever" > filter on the most offensive subject word-strings. For other subject > word-strings > where I may be most aggressive in filtering, I would only send those > items to trash. > And thus, I would have a much smaller number of "trashed" items to have to > scan through. > > For example, for a while, I was getting hundreds of garbage spam that had > the word "from" in the subject line, so I filtered all of those to > trash so I didn't > have to deal with them in my inbox. But then, when time permitted, I would > scan through the trash and usually found 1 or 2 legitimate email messages > (among the hundreds of non-legitimate messages with the word "from" in > the subject line). > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
