Gmail isn’t good at spam filtering [updated]
I had high hopes that with Gmail, spam could be a problem of the past. I have really good luck with Spam Sieve, but to use it means I must download my spam first. Sucking down a few hundred messages can take more time than I’d like. However, I can safely say that it does a lot better than Gmail. I can only hope the spam filtering in Gmail will be tweaked a whole lot in the coming weeks. Here’s a look at the top of my inbox.
For the last month Spam Sieve has been about 99.5% accurate, making spam only annoying for the time it takes to download.
Update: I’m happy to report that it’s getting better. Not perfect, but improving. Only a dozen or so spams got through this afternoon. Spam Sieve caught 83 in the same time (both get the same messages for the most part).
btw the answer to your SPAM troubles is SpamAssasin. I would suggest an email account @ a cPanel host, such as dr2.net. That way, you won’t have to download your messages prior to the spam filtering! If you have any questions (or a spare gmail invite) please get in touch 🙂
Hey – would really love a gmail account. The level of crap in my hotmail inbox is out of control. Can any1 spare an invite? thx heaps
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Please Please Please
I would like to test gmail. Please send me an invitation to windyswonderland[at]yahoo.com
hey could some one please send me an invite, ive been reading this blog for about 3 months now…. my email is caffrey[at]hartford.edu
Thanks in advance…,Thomas
please someone send me an invite… i’ve been trying for three weeks with no luck
I am a little puzzled that anyone is bothering to hide their email address in the file text but are filling out “email address” and their email address is getting posted anyway, so what’s the point? Or won’t it post your comment if you don’t give it a valid email? (just tried it, nope). I’m about to try a fake email address and see whether that works to let me post a comment. If you really wanna email me (why?) in response to this you can add an idi to the front of rect, in the fake email address, and that’ll work.