How does gmail spam filtering work?

[zoombini]

When I get spam in gmail, and it's in my inbox.
If I then hit the "report spam" button on it, it moves into the spam folder.

Does this also report it as spam to google & make it part of the filter for everyone else or just me?

I suppose the same goes for the "not spam" button?

Any ideas?

[Richard M]

"Report Spam" would send a notification to Google while they're in the beta testing phase so they can improve the filtering.
I think you have to create a new filter to move the spam automatically, although I'm not positive on this because I don't get spam.

[poolking]

Originally Posted by Richard M

"Report Spam" would send a notification to Google while they're in the beta testing phase so they can improve the filtering.
I think you have to create a new filter to move the spam automatically, although I'm not positive on this because I don't get spam.

As soon as I report it disappears from my inbox.

[zoombini]

Ditto.

I posed the same question to gmail & thier reply was an auto one pointing to the spam help (which I could not find in thier help centre).

Thank you for your message. We regret that the volume of incoming
inquiries we have received has prompted this general auto-reply. We hope
that this message will provide the information you need. Although we
cannot respond to every inquiry, we read each individual message, and
thank you for taking the time to send us your comments and suggestions.
Your feedback is important to us, and all feature requests and suggestions
for improvement are forwarded to the appropriate teams.

You are receiving this message because you classified your request as
'Spam' on the Gmail Help Form. If your request was misclassified, we ask
that you resubmit your question or report using the topic that most
closely relates to your inquiry.

Please find answers and links to the most common issues for these
categories at the end of this message.

If the information we have provided does not address your problem, we will
respond to your message and provide further assistance. Thank you for your
patience and understanding during our limited test of Gmail.

Sincerely,

The Gmail Team

------------------------------------

HOW DO I REPORT SPAM?

http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/...py?answer=6602

HOW DO I REPORT A MESSAGE THAT WAS MISTAKENLY MARKED 'SPAM'?

http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/...py?answer=9008

HOW DO I BLOCK MESSAGES FROM CERTAIN SENDERS?

http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/...py?answer=8151

HOW DO I DELETE SPAM?

http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/...py?answer=7996

I WANT GMAIL TO SHOW HOW MANY MESSAGES ARE IN SPAM

While Gmail does not currently support this functionality, we are testing
many new features to improve the Gmail service.

HOW DO I PREVENT MAIL FROM BEING MARKED AS SPAM (CREATE A WHITELIST)?

http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/...py?answer=9009

I RECEIVED MAIL THAT ASKS FOR SENSITIVE INFORMATION. WHAT SHOULD I DO?

http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/...py?answer=8253

[zoombini]

BTW, there was something about it identifying how many spam messages you have in your spam folder.

I have a label called "spam" which automatically identifies them & tells me.
I cannot remember if I did that or if it was part of the system.

[zoombini]

Does anyone know how or if its possible to view more than 50 messages per screen?

When you get several hundred spam mails a day, when you come to empty your spam folder i can take quite a lot of clicking to get rid of them all, clicking "all" and dlete forever on every page.

We should have a simple "delete all within folder" button.
What you think?

[zovat]

Originally Posted by zoombini

Does anyone know how or if its possible to view more than 50 messages per screen?

When you get several hundred spam mails a day, when you come to empty your spam folder i can take quite a lot of clicking to get rid of them all, clicking "all" and dlete forever on every page.

We should have a simple "delete all within folder" button.
What you think?

gmail supports up to 100 messages - click on settings, then under the general tab you have "Maximum page size" - this has a dropdown menu of 25, 50 or 100.

should help a little..

[zoombini]

Thanks for that.

Still leaves a lot of work. They should include an "empty spam folder"

[zoombini]

Can someone else try making the spam label to see if it tells them how many they have?