Gmail spam filter shifts to overdrive?
 

Starting about monday, the 150 or so spam messages I get each day has been paired down to about 30. This is gmail.

I didn't change any settings.

Is this just me or is everyone experiencing the same? and what caused it?

Not that I'm complaining....

Dunno,

I have always used gmail to filter my accounts.

For years I receive virtually no spam.

2-3 a day and hitting the Report Spam button usually eliminates them within a day.

When I check the accounts that gmail is filtering there is a ton of spam there.

Mine went the other way: I used to get maybe one spam per month, now I'm getting 5-10 per day.

+1 - All of a sudden, every Nigerian scammer has been sending me offers. Someone must have sold them my e-mail address.

I'm talking about the gmail spam folder. Gmail has always done a good job of sending the junk to the spam folder, it's just that now the volume landing in the spam folder is WAY down.

I think I wasn't the only one to misread your initial post.

Trouble with spam filters for a business is you don't know if a customer might be filtered out depending on how they mail you. With the word "windowman" in my addy, I suspect getting trashed now and then before the intended recipient sees it.

Milt you are exactly right.

I always view my spam folder to make sure legite messages are getting sent there.

Gmail spam filter does a great job. Good messages get sent to spam very rarely. But because I rarely find anything in the 150 or so daily spams, I tend to scan it very quickly. Now with about 30 messages, it's a lot easier.

My concern is that maybe gmail is simply trashing the other 120 or so without telling me. And maybe filtering legit messages.

I get zero spam with my gmail account. Very happy.

They probably use black lists so they are blocking hundreds of spams.

Just this week I had a customer call and wonder why I haven't responded to his emails. Of course I said I never received any, looked in gmail spam folder and there they were. I have been getting emails from the same client via gmail for months, then all of a sudden they were labeled spam.

Something had to change.

Gmail's spam filter is awesome.

For an example of a horrible one, use hotmail for a while. It'll make you appreciate whatever Google is doing.