Gmail marks Google Alerts Mail as spam
The spam filters of Gmail is one of the best of all the email providers and beats Yahoo and Hotmail outright but I do have to sometimes check my Spam folder for legitimate emails being filtered as Spam and have at times retrieved some emails from friends in the Spam folder.
Today while I was doing a routine check I came across a Google Alerts mail landing up in the spam folder.
This is probably the first time I have ever seen a company marking their own service emails as spam.
Out of curiosity I opened the email to check why it had been marked as spam. On opening the email I saw some words marked as red which may have forced Google to mark the email as spam.
I would not be surprised now why Gmail has the best spam filtering in the webmail industry. Thanks to Gmail I really don’t have to go through all the spam in the inbox. How often do you check your Spam mails? Do let me know through your comments.
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Sometimes advertisers need to be smart when writing their blurb too, heh?
I dont like the Spam filter of gmail .Many times i find many of my important mails going there
Me too!! :(
This the reason, why I always say that GMAIL IS THE BEST! :D
But still, Gmail gets twisted sometimes and start sending spam to my inbox.
I agree 100% with you, gmail has the best spam filter , while i was using yahoo mail i used to face with lot of spam, by using the gmail from the last 1 year i never faced the problem of spam
That is really strange. I am continually impressed by gmail’s spam filter, but I suppose some keywords in Google Alerts can trigger the algorithm to have strange results. thanks for the interesting post.