OT - How does Gmail decide if a message is spam?

2014-11-24 Thread Brian Walters
'morning all, I noticed several people reporting that messages from Marnie were ending up in their Gmail spam folder. Does anyone know how Gmail decides if a message is spam? I have several Gmail accounts for different purposes, all of which are configured to forward mail to my main email

Re: OT - How does Gmail decide if a message is spam?

2014-11-24 Thread steve harley
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

Re: OT - How does Gmail decide if a message is spam?

2014-11-24 Thread Darren Addy
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

Re: OT - How does Gmail decide if a message is spam?

2014-11-24 Thread Bruce Walker
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: 'morning all, I noticed several people reporting that messages from Marnie were ending up in their Gmail spam folder. Does anyone know how Gmail decides if a message is spam? Yup. But it's really complicated. :)

Re: OT - How does Gmail decide if a message is spam?

2014-11-24 Thread Brian Walters
Quoting steve harley p...@paper-ape.com: 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

Re: OT - How does Gmail decide if a message is spam?

2014-11-24 Thread steve harley
on 2014-11-24 17:30 Brian Walters wrote I *really* hate all of this hand holding that Google wants to do. It seems to me that Spam filtering should be off by default. Let the user decide to turn it on I say! But maybe I'm just a curmudgeon... Gmail is a mass-market service designed with

Re: OT - How does Gmail decide if a message is spam?

2014-11-24 Thread Bruce Walker
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: I *really* hate all of this hand holding that Google wants to do. It seems to me that Spam filtering should be off by default. Let the user decide to turn it on I say! But maybe I'm just a curmudgeon... Sorry,

Re: OT - How does Gmail decide if a message is spam?

2014-11-24 Thread Alan C
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: OT - How does Gmail decide if a message is spam? 'morning all, I noticed several people reporting that messages from Marnie were ending up in their Gmail spam folder. Does anyone know how Gmail decides if a message is spam? I have several Gmail accounts