{"id":2402,"date":"2013-05-31T12:16:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T16:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2013-05-31T12:16:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T16:16:12","slug":"gmail-tip-dont-forget-to-check-your-spam-filter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2013\/05\/31\/gmail-tip-dont-forget-to-check-your-spam-filter\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail tip: Don&#039;t forget to check your spam filter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2040415\/gmail-tip-dont-forget-to-check-your-spam-filter.html\"><img src='http:\/\/nccomputertech.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/gmail_logo-100035877-large.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nBefore I incur the wrath of non-Gmail users, let me just note that this tip also applies to Hotmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo, and so on. But because I&#8217;m a Gmail user myself, and that&#8217;s where my story begins, that&#8217;s where I&#8217;m putting my focus.<br \/>\nWhen was the last time you checked your spam filter? I ask because until recently, I hadn&#8217;t looked at mine for months. That&#8217;s because I use Gmail, and the service is so good at keeping junk out of my inbox, I pretty much forgot spam existed.<br \/>\nBut a few days ago, I went searching for an email that never arrived, and wondered if perhaps it had gotten caught in Google&#8217;s filter.<br \/>\nIt hadn&#8217;t. However, I was surprised to discover a handful of other messages in the spam inbox that definitely weren&#8217;t spam. Nothing crucial, but items I was a little bummed to have missed.<br \/>\nFor example, amidst the &#8220;enlargement&#8221; come-ons and obvious phishing attempts, I found some marketing emails I actually wanted, from companies I&#8217;d agreed to let contact me. And a couple messages from readers of another blog I write.<br \/>\nWhat was particularly strange is that Gmail had filtered some messages from a particular source, but not others. For example, I get regular deal notices from Newegg, but a few wound up in the filter.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure why Gmail suddenly decided those messages were spam, though I know the technology behind filtering can be imprecise at best. And it&#8217;s easy enough to undo what&#8217;s been done: Just click the box next to each message that&#8217;s not spam, then click Not Spam.<br \/>\nThe moral of the story, of course, is to check your spam filter on a regular basis\u2014once a week at minimum, I&#8217;d say. Even if it routinely catches nothing but bona-fide junk, you never know when something important might get intercepted before it reaches your inbox. It&#8217;s definitely worth a few minutes of your time to make sure that doesn&#8217;t happen.<br \/>\nGo ahead and check your Gmail spam filter, then let me know: Did you find any false positives? If so, how many?<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2040415\/gmail-tip-dont-forget-to-check-your-spam-filter.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gmail tip: Don&#8217;t forget to check your spam filter | PCWorld<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Before I incur the wrath of non-Gmail users, let me just note that this tip also applies to Hotmail, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[323,420],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-technology","tag-email","tag-gmail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/papNkV-CK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5559,"url":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2014\/05\/15\/google-is-testing-out-a-complete-gmail-ui-overhaul\/","url_meta":{"origin":2402,"position":0},"title":"Google is testing out a complete Gmail UI overhaul","author":"NCCT","date":"May 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"It looks as though Google is testing out a brand new design for its popular web based Gmail service, based on information from Geek.com. 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