Email Forwarding and Spam Protection

[Kenneth]

I forward all of my emails from one gmail account (firstname.lastname
at gmail) to another gmail account (userid at gmail) so that the
former is in effect an alias for the latter and I can access all of my
emails by only logging into the latter account.

But occasionally some of the emails I need get mistaken as spam so I
have to look into the spam label to see if they are there. This is
fine except that I've discovered that email forwarding doesn't really
forward ALL emails received to another address. There is spam
protection going on in both email accounts and spam identified in the
account that I don't want to have to log-in to is not getting
forwarded to the account I do want to use.

Is there anything I can do about this? Any way to get email
forwarding to forward ALL emails and not just emails it thinks aren't
spam? Maybe some way to disable spam protection in an account or use
a filter to forward them?

Kenneth

[patkan]

Hi Kenneth,
have you tried to set up a filter with has words: label:spam and the option "never mark as spam"?
In combination with your forwarding rule it should work. (At least I once used a similar filter and back then it worked)
patkan

[Kenneth]

Thanks, I will try that. 

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[Kenneth]

It isn't working but maybe I did something wrong.  In the filter's From field, I put "label:spam" and then selected the "Never send it to Spam" action.  Should that be working?  Incoming email, even if it is spam, won't have been labeled spam already.

[Andy]

>   In the filter's From
> field, I put "label:spam" and then selected the "Never send it to Spam"
> action.  Should that be working?  Incoming email, even if it is spam, won't
> have been labeled spam already.

I was going to reply to that, because I was pretty sure that wouldn't
work. (Then again, I haven't tried it.)

If you create a filter that finds every email message, and click
"Never send it to spam" as the action to perform, then it should keep
all email out of that account's spam box.

One way to have a filter find every possible email message, is to use
the "Doesn't have:" field and put something there that should never
appear in an email message, something like
"Thisisanonsensicalwordthatshouldalmostneveroccurinarealemailmessage".

Gmail doesn't use wildcards, so trying a filter that finds "*" would not work.

Andy

[Andy]

> It isn't working but maybe I did something wrong.  In the filter's From
> field, I put "label:spam" and then selected the "Never send it to Spam"
> action.  Should that be working?  Incoming email, even if it is spam, won't
> have been labeled spam already.

Note that when you put something like "label:spam" into a Filter,
Gmail gives you a pop-up warning claiming that it doesn't work; but it
actually might work. That warning is cautionary and not necessarily
correct (this has been reported here before).

For kicks I tried using "label:spam" in a Filter (but had my Filter do
something other than "Never send it to spam"), and it DID work. I
think this shows that incoming mail is labeled Spam already when the
Filter checks it ... even though that pop-up box warns that it is not.

(I recall reading that Gmail says your Filters are effectively checked
simultaneously, not sequentially.)

However, I didn't try having my Filter keep the email out of Spam; and
I could see how that might not work. How can a message be in Spam and
not in Spam at the same time?

Andy

[Zack (Doc)]

Agreed... You MIGHT be able to have that filter do the forwarding.  I've had mine do that in the past (forwarding messages that were already marked as spam).

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