Lately Gmail has been become increasingly frustrating to use. When I check mail in the morning I have about 5 spam mails in my inbox. Even some from Viagra. Even worse, the number of false positives (ham classified as spam) has also been increasing so that I now at least once a day have to resort to looking for legitimate mail in my spam folder. For a spam filter this is the worst case scenario. Actually it seems like Gmail has trouble categorizing spam as seen below. I hope it’s only a UI bug, but something deeper down is definately rotten.
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I completely agree with you; Google and their service gmail need to fix their spam filters. I often receive 7, 8, 15 to 50 or more spams each time I log in. Gmail’s spam filters are atrocious at best. gmail filters simply no longer work. I’m certain you will hear similar replies of gmail-spam filter complaints.
I’ve written to gmail (suggestions and feed back) but no reply. I guess customer or user input is not important to them.
The spams I receive are often online pharmacy spams, including Phiser, Viagra and other similar spams as mentioned in the first post.
They should filter by the IP where the spammer is sending from (often those are spoofed) and also they should filter known spammer IPs, bots and harvesters. never the less filtering by IP is better then filtering by per “word” basis (my own opinion).
If Google does come across this “fix your Spam filters NOW”.
to the editor, thanks for starting this blog :). Good luck.
Graeme, you might like this follow up article I wrote:
http://people.iola.dk/arj/2009/12/16/fighting-spam-in-gmail/