GMail Spam Filter - the 3 best tips
GMail's spam filter doesn't always do what it should. We will therefore show you the three best tips for correctly configuring the filter.
General information about the GMail spam filter
- Basically you cannot set your own filter levels with GMail. Spam protection at GMail learns over time which mails are unnecessary mass advertisements and which are not. At first, your messages may be incorrectly assigned.
- After you have marked a few such mails correctly or moved them back to the inbox folder, Gmail should manage everything correctly.
1. Bring emails from the spam folder to the inbox
- If GMail has marked a message from your friends as spam, you must declare this mail as "no spam". To do this, switch to the spam folder, open the message and remove the spam label at the top.
- The message then automatically moves to the inbox. Once you have classified two or three such emails as safe, private messages will hardly get stuck in the spam filter.
2. Mark messages as spam
If an advertisement does land in your inbox, just press the "Report spam" button. The mail then immediately goes to the spam folder and GMail remembers the sender and automatically sorts out future mails.
3. Set the manual spam filter
For better security you should also define your own filter. To do this, proceed as follows:
- Click on the gear icon in the upper right corner of GMail and select the "Settings".
- Under the "Filters" tab you will find the "Create new filter" option.
- Here you can specify in which case an email should be moved to the spam folder. Use either the sender emails or certain keywords (see picture).
- Then click on "Create filter with these search criteria" in the lower right corner to go to the next page.
- Here you can decide what should happen to the mail and whether it should be marked as spam or not.
- Then use the "Create filter" button to apply the new rule.
Not only the spam filter can be annoying. In the next practical tip, we will show you the 5 most annoying functions of GMail.