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One feature I would love to see from Gmail is a way to specify that you want certain spam to be auto-deleted.
As many of you know, an email is marked as spam automatically if the spam score meets a certain number. Now, the score is made up of many factors, such as words in the email, message source, location, and so on. Some emails marked as spam are less spammy than others.
What would be nice is if Google somehow showed us the spam score of each message and then allowed the user to define which spam messages should be auto-deleted.
For example, if after several days of reviewing spam email, I notice that any email with a spam score greater than 5, is always spam. Then, I would love to tell Google, delete any spam emails from my spam folder with a score of 5 or higher. The rest I will review at a later date.
There is a way to delete all spam right away but that is a bit risky.
Also, I see why Google might not want to show a spam score. If they do, spammers can learn from the score and create spam emails that break through. However, virtually all spam filters do show a score of some kind.
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Hmm could be a good idea - we'd still be a bit nervous that something would be deleted forever but then again, the odds are slimmer with all those spam scores. It is quite annoying to have to empty out the spam box often!
Posted by: No Name | April 16, 2008 9:51 AM
I HATE SPAM AND I GET like 150 of them a day
its so annoying and i do look thru them to make sure they are not spam and almost 99.9999 percent of the time it is spam
let them delete it for me would be an awesome save timer
Posted by: SPAMMER | April 16, 2008 10:11 AM
I agree strongly. Google's spam filter is very good, but still about 1 in 500 messages scored as spam are not spam. To find these, I have to scan tens of thousands of spam messages per month, a real aggravation. If I could use a spam score to auto-delete the most egregious spams, which is most of them, it would be a real time-saver.
I've submitted this request to Google but no reply. I'm disappointed in this level of user-unfriendliness in what is generally a very good UI.
Posted by: jdm | April 21, 2008 11:22 PM
I have an internationally based placement (personnel recruitment) site and most of my client companies expect to hear about eligible candidates that are coming to Hawaii. I send them out dutifully at no cost to them unless they want to purchase the resume at a low cost. I see where I have a spam score of five. Is this going to automatically be sent to the junk mail folder? Since these are legitimate emails is there anything I can do...
Posted by: Lee | January 9, 2009 4:13 PM
You mention in your info that there is a way to delete all spam that is risky, but you don't elaborate on that method. Could you please explain that method? I realize it is risky, but I'd like to try it. I've got 1 email address that only has a few items in Gmail and another account that has thousands of spam and real mail. I want try it on the small account and then decide if I want to go oon from there.
Thank You!!
Posted by: David | February 3, 2009 10:47 AM
Detailed instructions on how to set GMAIL to automatically delete spam is here:
http://www.indiandevs.com/technoworld/2008/08/31/how-to-automatically-delete-spam-mail-in-gmail-or-mark-them-as-read/
Posted by: Vincenzo | April 27, 2009 3:29 AM