Gmail Spam

bertles86 · 27 Dec 2012 at 22:19

I get roughly 250+ spam mails per week in my Gmail spam folder.

How do I stop them?

They nearly all start with "Please click Not Spam..."

And they're really starting to cheese me off!

LewisStuart · 27 Dec 2012 at 22:32

They're in your spam folder so forget about them. I get about 22 a day.

bertles86 · 27 Dec 2012 at 22:33

I know...but can't I stop them?

koolpc · 27 Dec 2012 at 22:34

Irritates me too. They are a pain but out of the way I guess

StringJunky · 28 Dec 2012 at 02:54

Make a new GMAIL account. Tell your important contacts to change to it and use the present one as your trash or casual email address...keep checking it though until you are sure your important contacts have switched. The fact is you've given your email address to the wrong people or websites.

koolpc · 28 Dec 2012 at 09:40

But sometimes one can't change the email address if one has had it for years!!

bertles86 · 28 Dec 2012 at 10:05

The exactly. I changed from hot mail two years ago and am very careful who I give it out to.

gillywibble · 28 Dec 2012 at 10:21

One does not simply change one's e-mail account.

Seriously though, it's the only way.

Linkex · 28 Dec 2012 at 11:08

Only two options sadly - have an open email address, everything comes in, spam filter does its best OR closed email address, only white listed emails get in, but you WILL miss the odd email you want.

Ryan-3 · 28 Dec 2012 at 11:16

I've had my email for years now. I get these all the time, rarely make the inbox now. Always the same though, "Please click it's safe not spam..." etc.

Its just what happens eventually. If you want to stop this on your main email, make a new one for your important contacts, and use the old for the rest.

KIA · 28 Dec 2012 at 11:19

Use a gmail filter.

Morfik · 28 Dec 2012 at 11:31

Or just trust Gmail's spam filter?

I'm guessing the reason this frustrates you is that you're worried that Gmail is picking up false positives and spamming important mail so you check it all the time? I've never noticed Gmail do this for a personal email and it only rarely puts legitimate newsletters in Spam. If something was that important you'd either notice it didn't arrive or someone would email you again?

Mitzy · 28 Dec 2012 at 11:45

I swapped email addresses recently from custom domain hosted on Google Apps to a plain old Gmail address, was fairly painless. There was only 20 or so sites I cared about updating. I kept my old email active for about a month before I disabled it just to double check that I hadn't missed anything.

Having said all that though, Gmail is excellent at catching spam so unless you go out if your way to look at it I don't see what the problem is.

Deleted member 77746 · 28 Dec 2012 at 11:52

It's a spam folder, just forget about it.

StringJunky · 29 Dec 2012 at 01:47

I use this desktop mail-sorting email client linked to my Gmail accounts. It allows me to sort through my mail very quickly, including spam if I wish. It's free with no nags. i think if you had something like this that allowed a smooth intuitive workflow the spam won't bother you as much as you can access, assess and delete it more quickly than in gmail itself. Just my experience....your needs may be different.

http://www.emailtray.com/

gillywibble · 29 Dec 2012 at 09:57

Don't know whether this is any good?

http://www.filehippo.com/download_spamihilator/

PobodY · 29 Dec 2012 at 10:37

As above; let gmail catch the spam and ignore the directory completely. - It does occasionally catch something that isn't really spam, but never anything important.

Thomss · 29 Dec 2012 at 11:24

I must be lucky I've been on Gmail for as long as it's been available pretty much and don't have any spam in the spam folder ever

I do use my email address tons of on-line registration stuff but always unsubscribe to news lets from suppliers etc, unless it's something I am really interested in.