Comments on: False Positives for Gmail’s Spam Filters http://lylejohnson.name/blog/2008/03/15/false-positives-for-gmails-spam-filters/ Covering Software Development with Ruby and FXRuby Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:18:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Andrew Oakley http://lylejohnson.name/blog/2008/03/15/false-positives-for-gmails-spam-filters/comment-page-1/#comment-8616 Andrew Oakley Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:45:54 +0000 http://lylejohnson.name/blog/2008/03/15/false-positives-for-gmails-spam-filters/#comment-8616 Totally agree - I'm getting five or more false positives on Gmail every week, notably on legitimate mailing lists such as the local Linux user group (uses Mailman) and a group of university alumni (uses Yahoo Groups). The FAQ states to add the From address to the Contacts list, but with a mailing list, the From address can be anyone - only the Sender or Reply-To address stays the same. I've tried adding the Sender address to my Contacts, and we'll see how that pans out over the next couple of weeks. It is particularly annoying that automatic forwarding cannot be set to forward spam, too. I forward all my mail to my home SMTP account, but sometimes my home machine is off or not reachable for long periods, so I prefer mail to go via Gmail first. Totally agree – I’m getting five or more false positives on Gmail every week, notably on legitimate mailing lists such as the local Linux user group (uses Mailman) and a group of university alumni (uses Yahoo Groups).

The FAQ states to add the From address to the Contacts list, but with a mailing list, the From address can be anyone – only the Sender or Reply-To address stays the same. I’ve tried adding the Sender address to my Contacts, and we’ll see how that pans out over the next couple of weeks.

It is particularly annoying that automatic forwarding cannot be set to forward spam, too. I forward all my mail to my home SMTP account, but sometimes my home machine is off or not reachable for long periods, so I prefer mail to go via Gmail first.

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