How to test suspect gmail delivery problems?

[Bob Elzer]

Same here, I send to myself with no problems.

But I'm using pop to read my mail, and rarely get any spam, with no filters
at all, except in my mail reader.

I only check on occasion and have found few thing in the bulk spam, and only
two that were real and not spam.

At the risk of upsetting you, perhaps you're not using it right :-)
 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 2:08 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: How to test suspect gmail delivery problems?

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).
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