Yes, getting a lot of these lately
Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
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Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#282I'm getting the exact same spam messages in my Inbox. Gmail has been working wonderfully for years, but lately something changed. I've also noticed marking messages from the same sender (confirmed by checking headers) as Spam doesn't move them to Spam, I keep receiving them to Inbox. It's intermittent, not sure what's going on but I can't rely on their filtering system like I used to.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#283For a number of years now, my Spam folder has become my secondary Inbox. Legitimate & important email gets flagged as spam which forces me to check my spam folder constantly.
And like you, obvious spam sits in my Inbox without being flagged as spam. It seems on a long enough timeline, spammers just get better at making email look legit.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
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Nah they'd have to develop a whole system that can automatically detect a text's language. For example, to recognize what language to translate to/from without having to be manually selected. We're out of luck until then.
oh no, they have it. i know they do: i get a lot of spam in french because of my user name, and not much else on that account. i recently had legit email in english be flagged as spam and gmail had a "why is this message marked spam?" note on it that said it was not in my usual language.
I was being facetious ;) Google definitely has the tech. It's in Google Translate already. It will fill in the drop-down for what language to translate to/from when you start typing.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
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The only reliable low maintenance solution is to get your own domain with a catch all mail service. Then for every email interaction with a 3rd party you make a unique address like amazondotcom3823@yourdomain.com. You can then just add rules for each incoming mail domain to send them to a junk folder, especially if it was was a one time transaction and subsequent emails are just going to be marketing junk. It also le…
This would be illegal in Germany where you must take notice of every email accepted by your email server. The junk folder doesn’t help because you would need to read through it nonetheless.
lol either this is a dumb rule or a very dumb interpretation of a rule, please link a source if you can.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#286To filter email with .html or .htm attachement use :
filename:html filename:htm