Gmail spam filter sucks too, 3 GB of spam in less than 6 months |
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For all the money Google is making pre- and post-IPO, their Gmail spam filter still doesn’t work worth a damn. There’s my Gmail inbox pictured above crowded with hundreds of drugs/pharmacy-related spam (my entire 100 message inbox is pharmacy-related spam at the moment). I’ve now burned through — in less than six months — three complete iterations of spam (that’s 3 GB); that means I’ve had spam filled up the box three times and deleted back down (with the help of the auto delete function) that much email. I mark this garbage as spam every time, but is the Gmail filter smart enough to figure this out? Nope. This is to a Gmail address that I’ve never told anybody to send spam to or published online publically anywhere, so heaven help the people who have actually published their Gmail addresses for email-thirsty harvesting bots. The 30-day auto spam removal is working right now, but I still wish there was a mass delete spam bin option (without needing to run a third party script).
To those who say the spam problem is getting better? They obviously aren’t doing that much business on the web. It’s gotten at least five times worse for us over the last 12 months. CAN-SPAM? Bah.
At least your gmail spam is in English. Mine’s in Spanish and Italian.
Comment by Larry Borsato — February 26, 2005 @ 5:19 pm PST
Get Outlook (ugh) and pop your mail off Gmail and use cloudmark’s plugin for outlook - for $5 a month you are set.
Comment by KillSpam — February 27, 2005 @ 7:25 pm PST
That’s funny: the spam filter works wonders on mine. Sometimes a bit TOO well. And this is an email address I use EVERYWHERE. O_o
Comment by Tiara — March 1, 2005 @ 3:36 am PST
My Gmail filter works. Also, you have to remember you’re still technically beta testing this product.
Comment by Carson — March 1, 2005 @ 9:16 am PST
My experience is different from yours. I really enjoy my peace away from spammers w/ gmail. Much much better compare to SpamAssassin or any other solutions.
Comment by Susan — September 24, 2005 @ 3:23 am PST
Mine works really well!!
The only feature I could want is automatic delete of stuff in the spam filter.
Ps When a site requires u 2 add your email adress tell it to send it to @mailinator.com you can check that inbox later and not have to give out your real adress PLUS its FREEEEEE
Comment by Hugo Delaranthas — January 30, 2007 @ 5:52 pm PST
Assuming you just were pissed of and not intentionally let the spam in as to accuse gmail… I would say bad for you.
As in 2007 this is solved i think. I have no problem with my gmail (yea some mails hits the spambox instead of inbox) but i do get spam into outlook 2003 via company exchange server.
Personally I think as to the huge amount of mail processed by google they actually have the chance to find out after 1000 occurences of the same mail that it is spam allright. MS’s hotmail is far from being this accurate on spam and assuming hotmail has nothing to do with outlook (not sharing e.g the spam database daily) so they doesn’t stand a chance…
Comment by mark — February 28, 2007 @ 7:59 am PST
Since this was written (Feb 2005) they have greatly improved their spam filters, Mark. I don’t have the problems of running out of space any more. For that, I’m grateful of course
Comment by TDavid — February 28, 2007 @ 8:24 am PST
Gmail has IMPROVED (?) spam filters? I think NOT!
Not only are their spam filters useless (they don’t prevent the SAME spam from coming in, they just put a lot of spam into a special file where you must look at it and delete it by hand — or run out of space!) but if you try to take things into your own hands via filters — that’s a BIG laugh.
E.g., I wanted a filter that had “Make $” and Google wanted to delete anything that had “make” in the body of the email!
The system sucks.
Comment by phineas — April 2, 2008 @ 6:57 am PST
Yahoo’s spam filter (and option to delete without seeing) is far superior to Google. I never have to see the spam, and the system seems to learn. Once I say it IS spam, it seems not to show up again in my inbox.
Poster #7 — I haven’t a clue what you are talking about. Perhaps sharpening skills in written expression could help because I sense you have something worthwhile to say.
Comment by phineas — April 2, 2008 @ 7:03 am PST