Gmail Spam Filtering Issues

Users discuss problems with Gmail's spam filters, such as legitimate emails being incorrectly marked as spam (false positives), spam slipping into inboxes, and inconsistent filtering performance.

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Lex-2008 Oct 24, 2021 View on HN

do you mean you never received spam from @gmail.com? Lucky you!

mlvljr Nov 17, 2016 View on HN

This pal is right fellas, gmail still has their spam :)

b112 Oct 2, 2021 View on HN

Probably gmail wants you to click on "not spam" for each, so they can verify you actually have a relationship with each miscategorized(on purpose) email sender.

ljw1001 Oct 12, 2019 View on HN

just like spam email, and yet hardly any get past Gmail's filters.

swiley Aug 21, 2020 View on HN

Is this why I’ve been getting spam from gmail lately?

i just use my email and let gmail hadnle the spam

Sounds like a great way to get your email marked as spam.

deorder Nov 19, 2019 View on HN

GMail even considers some emails from Google to be spam. I missed some important (billing and security notification) emails from Google this way.

slater Oct 13, 2022 View on HN

Is it nefarious Google marking their e-mails as spam, or users?

wtetzner Aug 7, 2012 View on HN

Gmail marked it as spam for me.