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Gmail spam filtering is actually poor, in my experience, because it's so aggressive. Around 30-40% of the mail in my spam folder is legitimate email, and the ra
by scholia 13y ago
Gmail spam filtering is actually poor, in my experience, because it's so aggressive. Around 30-40% of the mail in my spam folder is legitimate email, and the ratio is sometimes 90%. It would be even worse if I didn't have filters to tag some mail. (Gmail gives you the message it was not sent to spam because filter.)
Outlook.com's spam filtering is at least as good as Gmail's now, probably better. The only significant difference is that it's much less aggressive. Outlook.com will let two or three spams through where Gmail will put four or five legitimate emails in the spam box.
Since most people probably don't check their Gmail spam boxes regularly, Gmail's spam blocking is actually more dangerous.
- foldr 13y agoThat sounds like an unusual experience. I just checked through a few days of my spam folder and didn't find a single legitimate email.
- scholia 13y agoThat sounds like an unusual experience ;-) To be fair, I get a lot of press releases, newsletters and bulk mailings. But there's really no excuse for Gmail to keep putting emails from, say, EE Press Office in spam when I take them out every time. (My account was an early beta.)
- foldr 13y agoI don't think so, there are multiple posters here who mention how good the spam filtering is. I don't know anyone else who has any issues with it. 30% seems an implausibly high figure.
- scholia 13y agoI have screen grabs that prove it, though they probably contain other sensitive information. Not sure of a good way round that....