

SEND EMAIL TO TRASH WITHOUT BLOCKING FULL
The last 3 are handy, as my users can use throwaway addresses and later blacklist them.ġ38 messages made it past the blacklist or address validation, meaning the server accepted the full content.

SEND EMAIL TO TRASH WITHOUT BLOCKING MANUAL
The remaining were 8 that contained incorrect addresses or attempts to use my server as a relay, and 3 were manual e-mail address blocks added by my users.

There are also spikes in activity, tied to the rise and fall of botnets out there and hacks against databases to extract addresses.įor example, since 4am this morning (so about a 10 hour window of activity):ġ12 attempts to deliver a message were stopped before accepting the message, with 101 of these being due to blacklists. Any of those messages are silently rejected and users have no idea they were targeted. By pure numbers, about half of the messages that hit my server are blocked before they hit the actual spam filter that looks at content. Nothing that you do in your own personal filters is going to have a better false-positive/false-negative record than what Google already provides.Īndy is pretty much right on, as I have to still ensure my own private mail server does similar. Which is the main problem at the heart of any spam filtering engine. As you've already seen, you're getting bitten by the false positives. There's no way a simple word-matching filter will be satisfactory for you. It beats every other method for spam filtering that I've ever seen. Google has spent much more time and development money on their spam-filtering engine, and it's the best. The problem with you using filters to search for spam is, you personally can't possibly ever put in enough rules to correctly deal with spam. Google's spam filter probably did catch it, but your filter put it into the trash anyway. Just because one of your filters kicked something into the trash, that doesn't mean Google's spam filter didn't catch it. The reason you see all those messages kicking into the trash folder is that it's processing your filters both on inbox messages and on spam messages. You should just remove all of your trash filters, let Gmail deal with your spam, and ignore the contents of your spam folder from now on. Now they will end up in Spam where I'll have to deal with them. What should I do to ensure that these emails get to my Inbox? Is it possible that the Spam filter is searching for those words inside the attachments? If so, that would explain a lot. I am filtering -> Trash the following words: sexually, penis, sex, pills, viagra, vigara, medications, blonde, drugs, pharmacy, casino, promotion, T-Mobile, Samsung, and raffle. I do have about a dozen Spam filters that send certain incoming emails directly to Trash, but none of those filters should have any effect on these emails that I want to keep. The instructions to Whitelist an email address seem only to be designed to prevent the message going to Spam. One went to the Inbox, the other into Trash. Last week I received two of these emails within minutes of each other. Most of the time but not always, GMail puts these emails directly into trash, bypassing the Inbox. I very much want these emails, I have paid money for the attachments. I semi-regularly receive emails with attachments from a certain sender.
