[CS-FSLUG] Gmail spam handling

[Bradly McConnell]

I have only received one spam email to my gmail account in the last
few months.  The one I did receive was caught by the spam filter, so
I've been happy with the results so far.


On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 18:55:34 -0800, David Aikema <daikema at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know that a number of people from the list have been using Gmail (I
> even got my invite from Tim... thanks!), so I'm wondering if anyone
> had any comments on how well it is at spam detection.
> 
> Am I the only one who find them to be rather pitiful?  Of the 60 spam
> that arrived at my Gmail account since yesterday, only 10 of these
> were actually filtered into my spam folder (no false positives
> though).
> 
> Of the ones remaining in my inbox, probably at least half had been
> marked as spam by spam-assasin (my gmail account is acting as
> catch-all forwarding for a domain name I own, so all mail first goes
> through spam-assasin there).  Might the fact that these emails are
> routed first through this legitimate site be confusing gmail?
> 
> David
> 
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