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How Good is Gmail's Spam Filter?

Posted by Cliff on from the how-large-are-those-cracks? dept.

juglugs asks: "I've been using Gmail since the first round of invites on Blogger. Tonight I received my very first spam email. It was one of the ones offering me some product (I didn't read it too much) that would increase my manhood. It didn't trouble me too much as I just had to hit the 'Report Spam' button and off it went. But how good is their spam filter? Does anyone else get much spam? Why didn't this get recognized as spam - it had all the usual 'keywords' that you'd normally associate with it."

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  1. About 80% by driptray · · Score: 4, Informative

    I get over 800 spam a day to my domain, which I now have forwarded to my gmail account.

    The gmail spam filter is knocking out about 80% of it. I haven't bothered to check for false positives as it's enough of a hassle getting rid of the approximately 160 spams that get through to my inbox.

  2. Re:I know, and it's HORRIBLE by driptray · · Score: 4, Informative

    And yeah, there is NO INDICATION AT ALL of mail in the spam folder

    Create a label called "spam". Anything that gmail filters into the Spam folder will also automatically appear under the "spam" label, which also shows the number of unread messages.

    I don't know why this works, but it does.