[ale] Off topic: gmail's spam filter

[Ted W.]

I remember fighting my way through Google's "Bulk senders & domain 
administrators" documentation [1] when I was setting up my mail server a 
while back. It seems that even if you whitelist your IP with spamhaus 
and configure DKIM they will still send your stuff to spam. I've also 
yet to figure out how to get any kind of spamhaus or other spam database 
to permanently (or even semi-permanently) keep my ip address off their 
blacklists for more then a few weeks or months (I guess that's just the 
joy of running a mail server). But hey, it keeps the real spam out, 
right? ;)

[1] https://support.google.com/mail/topic/3396240

Ted W. <ted at xy0.org>

On 10/24/2014 09:29 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Haven’t done it with Gmail because I refuse to use it for anything
> important but most mail sites and tools I’ve used allow you to designate
> a mail as “not spam” when you find it in the default spam folder.   Have
> you tried right clicking on the mail to see what, if any, options if
> gives you?  Try it when looking at it in the list as opposed to after
> opening it.
>
> *From:*ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of
> *Justin Goldberg
> *Sent:* Friday, October 24, 2014 9:22 AM
> *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> *Subject:* [ale] Off topic: gmail's spam filter
>
> I have emails from certain lists that are always getting sent to spam. I
> suppose that will always be a problem with email lists and global spam
> filters.
>
> If I knew a google employee I could request them to reset the spam
> filter on my account and retain it. It's a shame that they don't make
> that reset tool public. It was mentioned on a Google employees blog a
> few years ago.
>
> At least they have a filter rule that says to never to send a certain
> message to spam, and one could match it with generic terms that are in
> most mailing lists, like "unsubscribe" etc....
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