On 1/9/09, Charles Jones <
charles.jones@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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