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How to send messages to spam in Gmail filter?
Sorry I'm late to the party, I found this old question when searching the same issue. Since you can't do it from filters, I wound up creating a Google App Script which does allow marking an email as ...
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Gmail treats mails from my domain as spam. Why? How to avoid it?
Shorter answer.
In my experience not having a PTR (reverse DNS) record set for the IP address of a server is the number one way email gets flagged as SPAM on services like Gmail and even AOL.
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Prevent Gmail telling me about an email that contains a virus or suspicious attachment?
You can't "turn this off" as far as I know, however, you can set up a filter that automatically archives, or even deletes these informative messages.
Personally, I archive all these messages and ...
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how can I mark an email message as "not spam" in Google Inbox?
In Inbox, if you pin an email that is in the spam folder, it goes to your inbox instead. If you then unpin it, it will leave the inbox but not return to spam, and will show up in search results.
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How can I report spam based only on a Gmail return address?
This may not be specifically for email abuse, but if they have a Google+ profile associated with that email address you can report them.
On any user's Google+ profile page, just under their ...
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Will emptying my spam folder in Google Mail contribute to their spam filters?
Only a Google engineer can answer for certain, but...
Based on what I've seen over the years, it's the manual marking as spam or "not spam" that provide the signals to the spam algorithm. This Gmail ...
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Is it possible to forward all Gmail messages to another account *including* spam?
I found this solution: https://maxrohde.com/2015/06/18/forward-all-email-from-gmail-even-spam/
I don't know if this would work, but it looks like it would:
Go to settings:
Go to Filters and ‘...
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Is there any way to block spam in Google Drive?
As far as I can tell, you can't disable the section, but you can report the spam.
Unfortunately you have to open the file first (much of the Google Drive spam I get I would never want to open). ...
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How can I report spam based only on a Gmail return address?
Short answer
Carefully consider to file a report with the Internet Crime Complaint Center (www.ic3.gov), a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National White Collar Crime ...
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How can I report spam based only on a Gmail return address?
You can't.
Email addresses are easily, and regularly, spoofed. Heck, I've received spam that seemed to come from myself.
Google uses heuristics on the content and the headers to determine if ...
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How to recover a message mistakenly identified as spam by Inbox?
Remove from Spam
Open the email you found in Spam.
Select Pin .
Your message will move back to your inbox. You can quickly find it again by clicking the switch at the top of the inbox .
Source.
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Gmail treats mails from my domain as spam. Why? How to avoid it?
A small update for anyone finding this in 2018. This could be considered as an addition to @JakeGould's excellent answer (which leaves out DMARC).
Google applied some heavier spam and phishing filter ...
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how can I mark an email message as "not spam" in Google Inbox?
To prevent the newsletter from going to Spam in the future I recommend adding it to a Bundle.
You can automatically add emails to a bundle based on criteria like who the email is from or keywords in ...
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Someone registered me on Facebook and I am spammed with friends requests
While the problem is solved, this answer might help to understand how the problem might arise.
Go to facebook.com .
identify the form "Create an account".
Fill the form and as an email address try ...
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Keep getting spam which have the same “mailed-by” field. Marking spam doesn't work. Can’t create filter based on this. How to mark these as spam?
Unfortunately not. According to the Gmail Help page Search operators you can use with Gmail, there is no filter for mailed-by. If you can find a common link between the emails being sent, you can ...
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How to send messages to spam in Gmail filter?
It's possible to block a specific address, but not a whole domain. Here's how it can be done:
Choose "Block ..." from the menu:
Confirm to block:
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Yahoo approving spam SPF to be sent from another email server
Yahoo doesn't use SPF to prevent spoofing
Yahoo's SPF record is v=spf1 ptr:yahoo.com ptr:yahoo.net ?all. The last part is the only relevant one: ?all means that there is no SPF policy.
In short, ...
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Is there a way to automatically ban an address in Gmail?
With Gmail as-is, no, there is no option to filter messages so that they're permanently deleted automatically.
Frankly, I think this is a good thing, as Gmail filters can be very powerful. Could you ...
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how can I mark an email message as "not spam" in Google Inbox?
Desktop: Click "Pin" to "Pin to Inbox" (can remove pin after -> regular inbox email)
Mobile (iPhone): Select email (by clicking on circle image on left), click three dots, "Remove from Spam"
Create a ...
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How to block *@domain.com email in Gmail account?
There are many links how to use FILTERS, as Ruben comments.
The steps are
In Settings > Filters CREATE a filter
just write your actual @domain.com in FROM field of the filter criteria
choose ...
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How to block "via" senders in Gmail
You can filter "via" emails with this configuration:
Has the words replyto:@domain-to-filter.com
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How to search and sort emails in the spam folder of Yahoo Mail
Try using the folder number 1 for inbox and 6 for spam to search the result the url will be
https://mail.yahoo.com/d/search/keyword%3D%2520{put the search term }%26folders%3D6
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Blocking stupid videos on YouTube
Add this Chrome / Firefox extension to your browser:
Find stupid video
Right-click on the video title
Select Block videos from this channel
Right after you can see that video disappeared from the ...
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Does Gmail auto delete junk/spam?
If you want to keep Gmail from ever marking messages as spam, you can accomplish that with a filter.
For the value of To:, enter * (asterisk). Then, choose the "Never send to spam" option.
This ...
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Wikipedia Spam Filter Notice
This makes no sense at all, but somehow the Chrome LastPass extension is triggering the spam filter. I tested this by opening an incognito window and performing the identical edit, which succeeded.
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What to do if someone keeps adding me to a Trello board without my knowledge?
When you add someone to a board they have to accept before seeing your cards. They will receive a notification that you have invited them, and you will receive a notification when they have accepted. ...
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How do I deal with Google Group spam pretending to be from Google group?
There is a suggestion to change the settings below... taken from another site.
Right, this is a new spam technique - At least a dozen of my google groups have been spammed this way already. If you ...
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Filter Gmail spam based on content not address
Gmail spam filters use complex algorithms that consider sender address, content but also by other parameters like volume of messages sent to Google.
You could help the algorithm to work better by ...
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