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Why do important messages end up in my spam?

How to get Gmail to stop flagging a message as spam?

  • How can I get Gmail to stop flagging a daily email as spam? I use sitelutions for dynamic DNS for my home computers and webserver. I created my own update scipts, where at the end of the update I receive an email with the new IP information. About two months ago gmail started flagging these messages as spam. I changed the format of the message, but they still end up in my spam folder, not my inbox. I've been using their "not spam" button to move the message out, but every day the new message is flagged and tagged as spam. What can I do?

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    Yeah I was thinking about the label thing too - http://ask.metafilter.com/62546/How-to-get-Gmail-to-stop-flagging-a-message-as-spam#941653 will only work if it always always comes from the same email address. Here's the http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=63600&query=spam&topic=&type=f&ctx=search about it: "If you find that some senders' messages are consistently being mislabeled as spam, you can prevent this by adding their email addresses to your Contacts list. Gmail will always deliver messages from members of your Contacts list to your inbox." (if that link doesn't work, I just searched "spam" under gmail help, its the 5th result.)

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Add the email address that the mail comes from to your contacts.

AlisonM

Or, on the chance the Gmail really hates your email, create a http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6579 to move it to the inbox or apply a label. (I can't get to gmail right now, so I'm not sure if you can move things to the inbox, but the label thing should work)

niles

niles, I imagine if you label it something, it'll just dump it in your Inbox automagically. I can't fathom a mail client putting labelled mail in your Junk folder.

booticon

Gmail does put labeled mail in the junk folder. I've had an ongoing problem with a web form that Gmail insists is spam, no matter what I do. Since it's a web form the To: address is not consistent, so adding it to contacts is not an option. Ultimately, I set up a gmail filter to forward that form mail to a non gmail account in order to be confident I'd actually receive it.

COD

my first guess would be that its something to do with the home IP address that is actually sending the mail, see if you can set up your script to go through an authenticated or more trustworthy mail server and see if that helps.

yeahyeahyeahwhoo

COD, are wildcards for the e-mail (*@mailserver.com) an option?

booticon

Email sent to [email protected] will go through normally to [email protected]. Then, you can create a 'to' filter that identifies messages sent to that particular address. This is useful for mailing lists, as well.

sindark

For more information, just Google 'plus addressing.'

sindark

As an aside, labeled email absolutely can (and should) go to your spam folder. I use my gmail account to aggregate 3 different POP accounts. Messages from those other three accounts get a "domain.com" label specific to their account of origin. One of the points of using Gmail is so that I can let it's excellent spam filters deal with the spam from those other accounts, even though all that spam will have a label.

chrisamiller

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