How to test suspect gmail delivery problems?

[Stephen]

interestingly i have had no issues sending email to myself, i do so
frequently to save links and the like when im out.

i also am useing only gmail's built-in filters and have created none of my own.

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Josef Lowder <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
> On 1/9/09, Charles Jones <charles.jones at ciscolearning.org> wrote:
>> Josef Lowder wrote:
>>  > I'm about fed up with gmail.  One of the most annoying things is that
>>  > it is (apparently) impossible to create filters that will actually
>>  > delete (rather than just move garbage emails to trash).  This is
>>  > ridiculous.  I'm still getting 100+ garbage spams plus 100+ emails in
>>  > trash every day and I have to go through all these to make sure that
>>  > there is nothing in there that should not be; and almost every day I
>>  > find one or two items in both spam and in trash that should not be
>>  > there.  Valid items in "trash" are my error/responsibility because of
>>  > my aggressive filtering efforts.  This problem could be minimized if
>>  > not entirely resolved if I only had the ability to actually create a
>>  > "delete forever" filter for some of the most offensive garbage.
>>  >
>>
>> If your current filters are failing and moving legit emails to trash,
>>  wouldn't the "delete forever" filter be a bad idea? :-)
>
> No, because, as I explained above, I would l only use a "delete forever"
> filter on the most offensive subject word-strings.  For other subject
> word-strings
> where I may be most aggressive in filtering, I would only send those
> items to trash.
> And thus, I would have a much smaller number of "trashed" items to have to
> scan through.
>
> For example, for a while, I was getting hundreds of garbage spam that had
> the word "from" in the subject line, so I filtered all of those to
> trash so I didn't
> have to deal with them in my inbox.  But then, when time permitted, I would
> scan through the trash and usually found 1 or 2 legitimate email messages
> (among the hundreds of non-legitimate messages with the word "from" in
> the subject line).
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>



-- 
A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen