How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers

#1

Post by onecreativenerd » Sat, Oct 06, 2012, 8:18 PM UTC

i.e. beware creating an email black hole.

How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers
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Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers

#2

Post by keiferski » Sat, Oct 06, 2012, 8:41 PM UTC

The title is a bit hyperbolic, and would more accurately be "Check your spam box for important emails".

Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers

#3

Post by recoiledsnake » Sat, Oct 06, 2012, 8:42 PM UTC

Google's spam filter seems to be having more issues these days. I used to ignore the spam filter, but got a reminder email which forced me to check the spam folder, and lo behold there was the email. I always open emails from that person and Gmail marks it as important, I wonder how it could possibly classify it as spam(assuming the email servers remained the same). The funny part was that just a few days prior I read a comment on HN warning about the spam filter and I had been meaning to check the spam folder but didn't.

Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers

#4

Post by aed » Sat, Oct 06, 2012, 8:44 PM UTC

Gmail's handling of multiple accounts is just about the poorest I've seen in any email client. Even Microsoft Outlook handles multiple accounts better!

Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers

#5

Post by niggler » Sat, Oct 06, 2012, 8:47 PM UTC

keiferski wrote: post #2

The title is a bit hyperbolic, and would more accurately be "Check your spam box for important emails".

That's not good enough in this case. The problem here, as I understood it, was that spam in the work email wasn't coming into the personal email in the first place, rendering the personal email incomplete. You would have to check all of the spam boxes.

Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers

#6

Post by mmastrac » Sat, Oct 06, 2012, 8:52 PM UTC

If you want to do this reliably, don't use the GMail auto-forward stuff. Instead, create yourself a _filter_ with the following definition:

Matches: -{"X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*"} Do this: Skip Inbox, Forward to XXX, Delete it

Your other GMail account will take care of the spam that gets forwarded.

I've been doing this for more than a year, with nothing ending up in the account's Spam folder.

Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers

#7

Post by 7a1c9427 » Sat, Oct 06, 2012, 8:54 PM UTC

I suffered from this and now have set up a filter on the forwarding account that goes something like: 'Matches: from:(*) Do this: Never send it to Spam' so it forwards absolutely all email. My personal account then dumps then filters stuff in to spam folder that I do check.

Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers

#8

Post by rabidsnail » Sat, Oct 06, 2012, 8:56 PM UTC

recoiledsnake wrote: post #3

Google's spam filter seems to be having more issues these days. I used to ignore the spam filter, but got a reminder email which forced me to check the spam folder, and lo behold there was the email. I always open emails from that person and Gmail marks it as important, I wonder how it could possibly classify it as spam(assuming the email servers remained the same). The funny part was that just a few days prior I rea…

I've been getting increasingly fed up with gmail, but not quite to the point of making me set up exim. Does anybody know of a mail server I can throw on ec2 and forget about?

Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers

#9

Post by keiferski » Sat, Oct 06, 2012, 8:57 PM UTC

niggler wrote: post #5

keiferski wrote: post #2

The title is a bit hyperbolic, and would more accurately be "Check your spam box for important emails".

That's not good enough in this case. The problem here, as I understood it, was that spam in the work email wasn't coming into the personal email in the first place, rendering the personal email incomplete. You would have to check all of the spam boxes.

Fair enough. The article is just titled to obnoxiously grab attention "Gmail is ruining your company!" instead of "Gmail forwarding doesn't always work" or something similar.

But hey, it's at the top of HN, so it must have worked.

Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers

#10

Post by dylanvee » Sat, Oct 06, 2012, 9:02 PM UTC

mmastrac wrote: post #6

If you want to do this reliably, don't use the GMail auto-forward stuff. Instead, create yourself a _filter_ with the following definition: Matches: -{"X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*"} Do this: Skip Inbox, Forward to XXX, Delete it Your other GMail account will take care of the spam that gets forwarded. I've been doing this for more than a year, with nothing ending up in the acco…

What kind of magic expression is that?