RE: Why am I getting 100 times more spam than others?

Yes, if it is pulling mail, that mail is not going through the gmail
filters, it's just going and retrieving them, so the spam would be getting
through those other accounts filters.

I would think you should be able to identify the accounts which are getting
the spam.


-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Charles
Jones
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 10:12 AM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Why am I getting 100 times more spam than others?

Bob Elzer wrote:
> Nobody has asked what your email account is, is somebody@gmail.com ???
> Or Do you have gmail receiving the joe@actionline one ?
>
That makes me wonder, If you configure gmail to pull from other POP/IMAP
accounts, maybe it just pulls whatever is there and does not spam filter it
like it does for directly received mail?
> I have a gmail account, I don't get any spam, and I haven't set any
> filters, gmail does a good job on it's own.
>
> Next I would ask if this is your doing or someone who doesn't like
> you. What I mean is are you signing up to lots of things and leaving
> your email address everywhere, or Maybe someone else is signing you up
> for different mailing lists on purpose.
>
> If either is the case, I would suggest you get a new gmail address,
> and stop giving it out, except to the most important people you want to
talk to.
>
> What mail reader are you using, have you tried adding filters to your
> mail reader ?
>
> Like someone else added, have another email for signing up for things,
> like at yahoo (lol) where mine is.
>
> But really if it's overwhelming like you say, I think the best answer
> is to get a new email address.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
> Josef Lowder
> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 5:07 PM
> To: Plug
> Subject: OT: Why am I getting 100 times more spam than others?
>
> 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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