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Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

vvvinzant — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:21:55 -0000

I have been getting thousands of spam every week since I opened my gmail account. Part of the trouble is that they go into my inbox, not to my spam folder. I've had to put a filter to direct this mess to my trash folder, so I can report spam. I was told by google that this was due to my internet practices - but I have no such problem with any other email account I have (3). I think it is due to gmail's spam filter not working. And if it is spam, why do I need to see it at all?

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

Nicole — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:55:41 -0000

I got one or two that the spam filter didn't catch, but that's happened on occasion before. Mostly it works very well.

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

Konstantin Boyandin — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:35:30 -0000

I should admit that my Gmail accounts started to miss 1-2 spam messages a day, for 2-3 weeks already.

Since this is is an endless war, I am not really disturbed,. Most of spam is delivered to where it belongs.

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

Sam Carrington — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:55:55 -0000

Noticed a massive increase this weekend but it's been increasing all of last week.

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

gary — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:46:48 -0000

I've noticed exactly the same - hence I found your blog when I did a search to see if anyone else had the same problem.

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

gary — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:46:47 -0000

I've noticed exactly the same - hence I found your blog when I did a search to see if anyone else had the same problem.

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

tastyrerun — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:50:00 -0000

I have had the exact same experience. Formerly, almost no spam, now a LOT of it. I wonder what gives?

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

Ken — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:52:54 -0000

Count me in. I have never had Spam in Gmail--and I've been with them since their inception. Then suddenly a couple weeks ago, I started to notice 2 or 3 a week. Now, it's 1 or 2 a day and getting worse. I made the mistake of having my email address on a company website for bots to grab, but have since taken it off. Even so, Gmail should have caught it. What's happening, G?

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

PradaGirl47 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:49:26 -0000

I'm getting all this nigeria stuff. about 5 a day. it's really annoying. then there's some other spam coming from gmail accounts. this is all new in the last few months. what can we do?

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

oldarney — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:10:03 -0000

same thing is happening to me. i never got spam in the last month or two ive been recieving spam. including Hi5 bs. i marked an email spam, two days later that same email arrived again on my mail box and it dint get filtered. this is beggining to piss me off. the mail reason i use gmail is because of its anti spam.

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

Frederick Szczepanski — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:57:28 -0000

I thought that it would still filter the message even if it was forwarded...

But I have been getting random spammy e-mails. Before the past two or three weeks, I received maybe two in the past two years that I've had a gmail account... It was disturbing. Hopefully it doesn't explode to dozens like other people...

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

Claire — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:40:30 -0000

I can second a lot of what people are saying! SPAM is such a time waster! So fed up with it!

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

Graham Toal — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:43:28 -0000

I found your page when looking for info on why gmail's spamfilter started leaking spams a few weeks ago - I get about 3 a day, they always arrive around the same time as each other, and they're all the same 'enlargement' spam. I've looked at the mails and I don't see any clever text encoding tricks that would bypass a conventional bayesian filter.

I'll be interested to find out how they're doing this.

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

shaun — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:33:00 -0000

I am today losing loads of legit email into gmail spam folder - whats going on?

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

Ed — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:01:33 -0000

Spam mania. I'm getting 25 a day into my Google domain inbox whereas I was getting 8-10 only a month or so ago. Only one has escaped the spamtrap in the past week, though. Hope it doesn't fall apart like some have reported.

I'm confident that the smart boys and girls at Google can figure this out.

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

James — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:01:00 -0000

I wonder if this has anything to do with Gmail's new support for the IMAP protocol. Less users using the webmail interface = less users clicking the "Report Spam" button.

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

TroyJMorris — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:57:11 -0000

I over heard someone last night at Ignite! Seattle talking about their gmail spam. Took 3 hours to get through all because he found one from the London Times and was worried there were more.

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

imma — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:29:29 -0000

mine seems fine - low spam level (~3 per month), practically no leaking (90-95% correctly sorted)

ps : volume of spam is more likely related to who has your email address

- imma

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

yessuz — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:06:05 -0000

I am spam free dude atm.
BUT:
In one of my blog posts I have noticed one interesting spam types.
Providing links using google ads:

http://www.flickr.com/photo...

Quite interesting ;)

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

Phil — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:54:03 -0000

Yes - it started about two weeks ago. Google has always caught my spam in the past, never a leak, but not now. What gives?

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

Sharon — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:10:01 -0000

I am still 100% spam free... I love my gmail account.

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

Shawn K — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:56:35 -0000

Just in this last week, I've gone from maybe 6-8 spams a week in the gMail filter, to about 6 a day. So far, I've only had one make it into my inbox, ever, in 3 years of gMail use, so it's still working better than anyone else I use, but is mildly disturbing.

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

Sam G — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:48:36 -0000

Yes, I have been getting more spam. Fortunately, none of it has entered my inbox. The spam in my spam folder though, has increased in the last week.

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

Joe Engineer — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:18:37 -0000

It has been an issue for a number of months now. I used to receive zero spam and now I get AT LEAST 30-50 per day.

Re: Are Gmail’s Antispam Filters Leaking?

SM — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:13:45 -0000

Time for everyone to move back to yahoo! mail...