Same experience here, I've lost important mails that cost me money and because of that I've periodically been checking my spam folder - which is a real pain sin

Same experience here, I've lost important mails that cost me money and because of that I've periodically been checking my spam folder - which is a real pain since the spam-folder isn't synced to my external mail client. So I have to constantly login to their site only to check the spam-folder (talk about convenience). I've setup rules to try to do my best to NEVER send anything to the spam folder but even with catch-all rules gmail still think they know better than me. Their support for real (external) mail clients is also quite bad, I don't see why so many people in tech use gmail.