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I reckon it’s just a numbers game. Gmail will every now and then let absolutely ridiculous emails through the spam filter. Badly spelled, bogus URLs, with $$$
by jonplackett 5y ago
I reckon it’s just a numbers game.
Gmail will every now and then let absolutely ridiculous emails through the spam filter.
Badly spelled, bogus URLs, with $$$$ all over the place and All CAPS and just so clearly to any human a phishing attempt or just general scumminess and gmail takes a look at it and says “yup everything seems legit here. On to the inbox!”
- low_tech_love 5y agoMy Gmail inbox from 2004 is 99% spam. I've tried everything I can imagine, nothing works. It is absolute chaos.
- Marsymars 5y agoI've got the opposite problem - I get almost no spam to my inbox but regularly get legitimate emails routed to my spam folder, so I have to treat my spam folder like a second inbox anyway.
- jeffbee 5y agoGoogle has to intentionally inbox a tiny fraction of spam, otherwise they'll never get corrective feedback on false positives, because basically nobody looks in their spam folder. Also, they have to permit a teensy fraction of stuff that would normally be temp-failed at SMTP time, for the same reason: otherwise it would be impossible for address and network reputation to improve. So sometimes if you see something completely ridiculous get inboxed, it might be that they are just trying to get data.
- jfengel 5y agoAh, that explains some of what I see. I had noticed that my GMail spam folder went from thousands to dozens. I assumed they were zapping most of it but wasn't sure.
- jeffbee 5y agoThe overwhelming majority of suspected spam is rejected with temporary failure codes in SMTP and never makes it to the spam folder. The stuff in your spam folder is the cream of the crop!