Gmail Broken, is your email being labeled SPAM?


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Everyone here at NoHeat relies on the almighty Gmail for work, and really cannot imagine using any other client for reading email.  The problem is there seems to be something broken with the Gmail spam filters over the last few weeks.  Over 30% of our regular email is ending up in the spam folder (which is called a false positive) all of a sudden.  This may not be a big issue for those of us who only use the web client but for those of us who download using Thunderbird or Outlook could be missing critical emails.  The first thing we noticed was at first being deluged by SPAM and then all of a sudden like the spigot being turned off the SPAM stopped.  With the SPAM stoppage so did our everyday emails.  It seems like they must have made a very aggressive update to the spam filter, even stopping emails to people we have sent email to already.  This isn’t just affecting one or two accounts we have over 20 here that are having issues.  Hopefully Google can roll back their changes and let us use our email again.  Moral of the story, Google is fickle don’t forget to check your spam folder every once in a while, you never know.

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August 21, 2007 | Filed Under Google 

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3 Responses to “Gmail Broken, is your email being labeled SPAM?”

  1. Rupesh on MyAvatars 0.2 August 22nd, 2007 2:00 pm

    yes I faced this situation. Even I lost few opportunuties of employment due to this as the mail along with my resume attached with was marked as SPAM.

  2. multippt on MyAvatars 0.2 December 21st, 2007 2:16 pm

    Don’t worry, it happens at times, usually when using SMTP for sending mails. For some strange reason, Google regards mails sent automatically to be spam (e.g. Wordpress registration mails).

    There is a reason why most people tell others to check their spam folder. :)

  3. kora on MyAvatars 0.2 June 3rd, 2008 6:13 pm

    I also made the experience of not getting proper email at gmail.

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