Amount of spam mails in Gmail account

lola_run

I'm so fed up of having to delete spam messages from my Gmail account.:mad:

Gmail says it has a good anti-spam system, well, it doesn't seem to be working for me!!

My question is: Should I ask my employer to change the format of my e-mail address on our website in order to reduce the amount of spams?

Thank you in advance for any advice.:)

r3nu4l

Does your company not have their own email addresses? Do you use gmail addresses? Weird...

I get tons of spam but it all goes into the spm folder. Is it getting to your inbox?

Sad Professor

I've been getting a lot of spam into the inbox of my main gmail account lately too. Really annoying. They all seem to be coming from yahoo accounts which is how they're slipping through.

Ruu_Old

All go straight to the Spam folder for me, rarely that they slip through.

lola_run

r3nu4l wrote:

Does your company not have their own email addresses? Do you use gmail addresses? Weird...

I get tons of spam but it all goes into the spm folder. Is it getting to your inbox?

First of all, I don't work for a 'company'. Yes, in fact, some of us use gmail addresses.

Yes, it goes into the spam folder, but sometimes I get 13 of them all at once, which I find strange.

lola_run

Ruu wrote:

All go straight to the Spam folder for me, rarely that they slip through.

I never said mine didn't go to the Spam folder either!

What I was going to suggest to my empoyer is to write the email addresses like this: "emailname(at)gmail(dot)com"
or "firstname.surname@gmail.com".

Other solutions would be greatly appreciated. I know that one can have Spamguards ushc as http://www.spamfighter.com/Pro too, but if you don't choose from who want on your whitelist, I'm afraid I won't receive important ones. So another question is what is the best solution to minimise spams?

humbert

if it goes into the spam folder it is filtered. I don't think the contents of the spam folder are counted toward your allowed quota so it really doesn't bother me!

rogue-entity

What would really help things is if ISPs took a more proactive anti-spam stance. Most if the spam in the world is apparently from hyjacked Windows computers on residential internet connections. Now, if ISPs actively blocked all outbound traffic to port 25 that was not destined for there own email server, it would actually result in all these zombie machines being unable to send out these emails. But, it would not prevent a legitimate user from sending an email through his ISP's email server. I checked the source of most of the spams I received once, and most of them were from computers on DSL accounts in the US, some were from Russia and others from China.

Hobbes

If it is going into your spam folder in gmail just ignore it. It has no effect on your quota.

If they are appearing in your inbox then they are spamming from a valid email address. Just mark the checkbox and report it as spam. It gets moved to your spam folder and the contents/email address are scanned to stop similar emails getting in.

My gmail is pretty public account and I think I have ever seen 1 spam mail appear in inbox (saying I won the lottery).

humbert

rogue-entity wrote:

What would really help things is if ISPs took a more proactive anti-spam stance. Most if the spam in the world is apparently from hyjacked Windows computers on residential internet connections. Now, if ISPs actively blocked all outbound traffic to port 25 that was not destined for there own email server, it would actually result in all these zombie machines being unable to send out these emails. But, it would not prevent a legitimate user from sending an email through his ISP's email server. I checked the source of most of the spams I received once, and most of them were from computers on DSL accounts in the US, some were from Russia and others from China.

not everyone uses their isp's smtp server though. for example I use gmail's.

lola_run

Hobbes wrote:

If it is going into your spam folder in gmail just ignore it. It has no effect on your quota.

If they are appearing in your inbox then they are spamming from a valid email address. Just mark the checkbox and report it as spam. It gets moved to your spam folder and the contents/email address are scanned to stop similar emails getting in.

My gmail is pretty public account and I think I have ever seen 1 spam mail appear in inbox (saying I won the lottery).

The email quota thing doesn't bother me, what does bother me is wasting my time deleting these spams when I have better things to be doing!

humbert

The thing is that there is no reason to bother deleting them!

lola_run

humbert wrote:

The thing is that there is no reason to bother deleting them!

No reason at all???

humbert

na, they're in the spam folder, they're not taking up your space. Forget about them. I'd say the spam folder is automatically emptied by gmail every so often but it makes no difference to you!

irlrobins

^ Yep, after 30 days the spam gets deleted. And it;'s hardly a time consuming task to delete the spam. Two clicks and it's gone.

If you make your email address publicly available (i.e. on a web site) then you're guaranteed to be spammed, it's the single worse thing you could do.

Conchial

You are a contribuiting factor for how much spam you get.


If you use the addresses to sign up for free offers, registrations, newsletters etc it will get onto spammer lists. Look what happened 30 minutes after I signed up here.

Conchial

[Aside]Is anyone else chuckling at the thought of a Humbert educating a Lola ?[/Aside]

humbert

haha, it didn't even occur to me

lola_run

humbert wrote:

na, they're in the spam folder, they're not taking up your space. Forget about them. I'd say the spam folder is automatically emptied by gmail every so often but it makes no difference to you!

Yes, indeed it is: every 30 days. I'll save time by just ignoring them for now on. Thanks for that.

lola_run

Conchial wrote:

[Aside]Is anyone else chuckling at the thought of a Humbert educating a Lola ?[/Aside]

Conchial, I presume you are actually referring to "Lolita" (by Nabokov). Lola is not a synonym for Lolita.

lola_run

Conchial wrote:

You are a contribuiting factor for how much spam you get.


If you use the addresses to sign up for free offers, registrations, newsletters etc it will get onto spammer lists. Look what happened 30 minutes after I signed up here.

No, in fact, I use my GMail address exclusively for work. I use another mail box for industry newsletters, never commercial related ones though. As for free offers :rolleyes: , never!!!

Conchial

lola_run wrote:

Conchial, I presume you are actually referring to "Lolita" (by Nabokov). Lola is not a synonym for Lolita.

Anyone who has actually read it will be aware of the fact that Humbert and others refer to her as Lo, Lola, Dolly and Lolita pretty much interchangably.

lola_run wrote:

No, in fact, I use my GMail address exclusively for work.

Then 'work' has been selling your email address or publishing a directory somewhere public.

Victor

I get maybe 2-3 pieces of spam per month. What am I doing wrong?

lola_run wrote:

Conchial, I presume you are actually referring to "Lolita" (by Nabokov). Lola is not a synonym for Lolita.

Yeah, wasn't lola a showgirl?

Conchial

Victor wrote:

Yeah, wasn't lola a showgirl?

Or indeed a girl desperately in need of 100,000 Deutschmarks ?

irlrobins

Back on topic please.

*Mouse hovers over ban button*

lola_run

Conchial wrote:

Anyone who has actually read it will be aware of the fact that Humbert and others refer to her as Lo, Lola, Dolly and Lolita pretty much interchangably.

I have read it but several years ago. You're right. Mea culpa.

rogue-entity

humbert wrote:

not everyone uses their isp's smtp server though. for example I use gmail's.

Well, that is a minority, still, blocking outbound SMTP is just one measure that would stop spammers using compromised windows machines to send out the junk.