I email myself all the time. I also use the base spam filtering. It works very well for me. On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Stephen wrote: > 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 wrote: > > On 1/9/09, Charles Jones 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@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 > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >