One thing that hasn't been mentioned is that you can, if you're REALLY motivated, setup a local SpamAssassin filter that uses the IMAP interface to GMail to filter your email.
Have SpamAssassin just transfer suspected spam into the junk folder (or delete the message, which actually sends it to the GMail trash folder, prefer junking it if possible).
That will likely take a LOT of work to get all the scripts and interfaces working, but it would provide a highly aggressive spam filtering solution under your control that should reduce the amount of spam you have to deal with manually.
Also, if you're willing to pay for a service, look into postini. They're actually part of Google now, but they still have the best commercial spam filtering solution I know of, and you can have them frontend your domain so that they filter everything before it's delivered to your *real* mail servers.
If you use Google Apps For Your Domain, then definitely upgrade to Google Apps premier (not too expensive, but it does cost some money every year); you'll get postini message security (spam/virus filtering) on every account within your Google Apps premier account. That may be the best solution for improving your particular situation.
One last note, Google Apps For Your Domain has (IIRC) a much less aggressive spam filtering solution than the consumer GMail by default. This is so that companies using the service don't get too much email blasted by the SPAM filter. Premier Edition provides much stronger filtering, but also provides a ton more control options.
Josef Lowder wrote:
> In the past, I have pleaded for help with this issue, and some have
> responded with frustration that I brought this up again ... so I
> apologize in advance for bringing this up again now. But the problem
> has worstened to an enormously frustrating extent.
>
> More than 2,000 spam email messages now come into my gmail account
> every day. It is perplexing and infuriating to me that google/gmail
> will not allow creating filters to *delete* (not just move to trash)
> all this garbage that is clearly identifiable and definable.
>
> Recently, gmail began to mark about half to 2/3rds of this garbage
> with the title *****SPAM***** in the subject line. Why would they
> bother doing that instead of just totally blocking or automatically
> deleting forever all this garbage rather than just labeling it as
> SPAM? Or at least give us the option to choose to have all such mail
> deleted rather than put into a spam folder.
>
> I (and many others) have written to Google and to Gmail forums about
> this numerous times, but of course no one at Google ever responds.
>
> What prompts this message today is that I have recently talked with
> other email users who are even larger volume users of email than I
> and they have expressed amazement at the volume of spam that I am
> receiving. Because, they have reported to me that they are *not*
> receiving even 1/100th of the volume of spam that I receive.
>
> So, can anyone recommend any remedy or alternate, perhaps even a paid
> web mail service, by which I might be able to gain some control over
> this nightmare?
>
> I would certainly be willing to pay for a solution.
>
> Help!
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