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 <
cryptworks@gmail.com> 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 <joe@actionline.com> wrote:
> > 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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>
> Stephen
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