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I hate GMAIL. Got lot's of SPAM on GMAIL which required me to delete each and every one.

So, the GMAIL drop down under "All mail", I see all the SPAM that I had previously spent a few hours deleting.

It's still there...

Aaaagh.

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Posts: 8228 | Location: Arizona | Registered: August 17, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Something is not set right, also top corner is box to check all then indicator to delete forever.

Go to settings and set it up,G mail is great unlike my yahoo.
 
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Increase your security so unknown senders are automatically sent to the spam folder. Then you can just click on the "Delete All Spam" button above them.



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Posts: 18018 | Location: Sonoma County, CA | Registered: April 09, 2004Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Increase your security so unknown senders are automatically sent to the spam folder. Then you can just click on the "Delete All Spam" button above them.


This...I do it about every three days. I know it pisses all those Russian women off Big Grin


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For me it's the free subscriptions from Mercury Magazines.



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Posts: 18018 | Location: Sonoma County, CA | Registered: April 09, 2004Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Interesting. Gmail's the best of all the free email providers I've tried over the years. Especially when it comes to weeding out spam.
 
Posts: 32421 | Location: Northwest Arkansas | Registered: January 06, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Love it: "I don't like the service from something I get for free."

You get what you pay for.
 
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I get about 120 to 150 spam emails a day with HotMail. You are lucky...it could be worst. Smile


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Posts: 11828 | Location: Herndon, VA | Registered: June 11, 2009Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Love it: "I don't like the service from something I get for free."

You get what you pay for.


I get Outlook.com email and live.com email for free and NO spam. Their spam filters seem to work.

Any suggestions?


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Posts: 8228 | Location: Arizona | Registered: August 17, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Interesting. Gmail's the best of all the free email providers I've tried over the years. Especially when it comes to weeding out spam.


I've tried all sort of adjustments with GMAIL. All my email messages are filtered thru Apple Mail and GMAIL cannot weed out the SPAM.


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Posts: 8228 | Location: Arizona | Registered: August 17, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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You don't have to tell me.

My employer (with nearly 20K employees) decided at some point to use GMAIL as its enterprise e-mail provider... because it's free.

Roll Eyes

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Posts: 16263 | Location: Maryland, AA Co. | Registered: March 16, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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My little mom-and-pop business owns an email domain. Not expensive, it costs about twelve bucks a year to register the domain name.

When we first started doing this I was dealing with dozens of spam messages every day. Then, I started forwarding all mail from our private domain to my gmail account, and collecting incoming mail from gmail. This method takes advantage of gmail's spam filters. Doing it this way, I rarely see any spam. Maybe one or two a month, usually not even that.



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You don't have to tell me.

My employer (with nearly 20K employees) decided at some point to use GMAIL as its enterprise e-mail provider... because it's free.

Roll Eyes

-Rob

Not for businesses like that, it's not.



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Originally posted by BurtonRW:
You don't have to tell me.

My employer (with nearly 20K employees) decided at some point to use GMAIL as its enterprise e-mail provider... because it's free.

Roll Eyes

-Rob

Not for businesses like that, it's not.


Dramatically cheaper than maintaining MS Exchange, then, I suppose. I'd suggest there's a reason for that.

-Rob




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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
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Originally posted by BurtonRW:
You don't have to tell me.

My employer (with nearly 20K employees) decided at some point to use GMAIL as its enterprise e-mail provider... because it's free.

Roll Eyes

-Rob
Not for businesses like that, it's not.
Dramatically cheaper than maintaining MS Exchange, then, I suppose. I'd suggest there's a reason for that.
Question for you, Rob: Is the domain name for your employer's email <person>@gmail.com? Or is it more like <person>@<employer_name>.com? If the latter, it's not free. Gmail (Google) does offer business mail services at very competitive pricing.



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Originally posted by BurtonRW:
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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
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Originally posted by BurtonRW:
You don't have to tell me.

My employer (with nearly 20K employees) decided at some point to use GMAIL as its enterprise e-mail provider... because it's free.

Roll Eyes

-Rob
Not for businesses like that, it's not.
Dramatically cheaper than maintaining MS Exchange, then, I suppose. I'd suggest there's a reason for that.
Question for you, Rob: Is the domain name for your employer's email <person>@gmail.com? Or is it more like <person>@<employer_name>.com? If the latter, it's not free. Gmail (Google) does offer business mail services at very competitive pricing.


Yeah. It's not free. I know it's not free, but it still sucks and it's still cheaper than Exchange. I know this because it's one of the first conversations I had with IT when I came on board. They were NOT happy with the switch when it was made several years before I arrived. They still aren't, but have no say in the matter.

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Posts: 16263 | Location: Maryland, AA Co. | Registered: March 16, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Found out my GMAIL account was being hacked. I went into the mail GMAIL site for that bit of info.

Made a few adjustments to junk/delete pull downs and changed my password to something stronger.

Then, I deleted over 2,000 emails.......again.

Thanks for all advice from those interested.


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Glad you worked it out. Remember that EVERYTHING you send via Gmail is monitored. Don't believe you are having a private conversation. Ever. Also, if you use Google Docs and Google Drive, that is monitored as well. The good comes with the bad. The good, pedophiles get scooped up sooner by stupidly saving images to google drive. Google reports them and they get arrested.

The bad, you have no privacy.

General Petraus had a good scheme going with his mistress. They would do naughty messages as a Gmail draft to each other, and the other person would delete it before then doing a draft in turn. They though by not sending it there would not be a record.

Of course, turned out there was a trail. Same with google docs. Your state changes the firearms law and you go in to delete one on your serial number list that you had bought face to face. They still have it.
 
Posts: 1918 | Location: Pacific Northwet | Registered: August 01, 2012Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Don't like it never have. Only reason I have it is because you have to have it to set up an account withface book or you tube or any android device you own.


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One of the counties I deal with started bouncing my regular email, saying it was an untrusted sender or somesuch nonsense. (They eventually collected some of their shit together and corrected this.)

So I set up a Gmail account just so I could get work done for a week or so. I probably sent fewer than a dozen emails with it, all to one county, and it's been basically dormant ever since. But it sure attracts the spam. You'd think with so little exposure, the spambots would miss it.


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