Gmail Spam Filters are Broken!

[DomainMagnate]

What's up with gmail lately? Their spam filters used to be awesome, now every time I check the spam folder I find a bunch of good emails that are supposed to go to inbox: either some domain renewal notifications, or emails from people who haven't emailed me before, like end users interested in domains, advertisers on my sites etc.

Moreover I frequently find some ridiculously spammmy viagra emails in my inbox.

Can't trust gmail any more! And that even despite that I'm paying the $50 per year for their premium accounts.

 

[Fearless]

That's bad. I set my gmail up to delete all spam emails automatically because the filter was so good.

 

[Tygerwoody]

mine works fine. You must be putting your email in places it shouldn't be.

 

[draggar]

I'm getting a lot today but it seems that every now and then there is a "spam attack" and then within a day or two it is over.

 

[BidNo]

I'm using gmail for domains and not noticing anything.

 

[DomainMagnate]

Yeah I also use gmail for domains. Check your spam folders frequently people.. I had a few sales from emails that got to the spam folder. If I haven't checked the folder the sales wouldn't have happened.

 

[HarveyJ]

Gmails filters are adaptive for each account.
If you mark things as spam, or set up filter rules, it begins to create algorithms to deal with that for you.
If you're using it for the one sort of activity only, considering that you're just as likely to get spam about a domain as you are a legitimate client, it's only natural that the algorithm is going to screw up, because machines are still not so great at picking out context.

You should be using a client side email client, like Outlook or Thunderbird, and simply connecting it to your gMail account using IMAP so that they sync.