Gmail forwarding spam to my cell phone (cross-posted)

[pdx]

This is a followup to a post I sent October 26, about spam being
forwarded via SMS to my cell phone.

I've set Gmail to forward my email to nnnnn...@txt.att.net.

In mid-October last year, Gmail suddenly began forwarding a large
volume of spam to my cell phone. I posted about it in another Gmail
group on October 26. Early in November, Gmail's filters learned not to
forward the spam, and all has been well until a couple of days ago.
Now, once again, I'm getting spam via SMS. I should note that these
spam messages do NOT show up in my Gmail inbox; when I open Gmail,
they are in the trash or in the spam folder. But Gmail continues to
forward them to my cell.

Help.

[Andrew Ingraham]

> I should note that these
> spam messages do NOT show up in my Gmail inbox; when I open Gmail,
> they are in the trash or in the spam folder. But Gmail continues to
> forward them to my cell.

They probably WERE in your Inbox before being forwarded.

Under Settings, what do you have it do with the message after forwarding it?
Do you "delete Gmail's copy?" They get into the Trash only if you (or a
Filter or Forwarding) put them there.

The ones that automatically go into the Spam folder would not be forwarded.

Gmail's spam filters do sometimes require human (your) intervention. They
don't train themselves to new spam patterns; you need to (re)train them, by
clicking on the Report Spam button. If you never login to your Gmail
account, you lose that opportunity to improve and update the spam filters.

Andy

[tristan]

I am having the same problem. It started late last night. My filters
have not changed.
Yet I am getting forwarded messages that are in the spam folder.
my filter is as follows:

Matches: -{unrep...@voip.primus.ca}
Do this: Forward to ##########@pcs.rogers.com

Tristan

On Jan 13, 11:47 pm, Andrew Ingraham <andrew.ingra...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[ianized]

Experiencing same problem here in Ireland.
Haven't touched my gmail filters and the problem started some time
around Wed.Jan.14.2009.

So in the filter criteria "Doesn't have", I put "SPAM". We'll see if
it works. Hopefully gmail will resolve the problem on their end.

I

On Jan 15, 5:36 pm, tristan <tristanca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am having the same problem. It started late last night. My filters
> have not changed.
> Yet I am getting forwarded messages that are in the spam folder.
> my filter is as follows:
>

> Matches: -{unreplia...@voip.primus.ca}
> Do this: Forward to #######...@pcs.rogers.com

[Ryan Morehart]

I don't know if the first person in this thread is using filters to
forward, but Gmail does still filter messages that are placed in spam.
It wouldn't completely surprise me if that means they still get
forwarded. If the behavior has changed in the recent past, then I
would suspect it was about the same time that the "Never send to spam"
option for filters was added.

If you use the forwarder in the options (which forwards everything),
that does only send non-spam stuff on.

Ryan

[ianized]

using the forward option will forward ALL emails that arrive into the
gmail account (except SPAM).

however, i think those of us using filters to forward only want to
forward certain emails to our cell phones, hence the filter.

i just noticed that new option: "Never send to spam", which means they
are starting to filter the SPAM. that sucks. there must've been a
large volume of users complaining their legitimate emails were being
labelled SPAM. now hopefully the wizards at google can figure out how
to satisfy those customers at the same time as addressing our problem.

I

[ianized]

Could gmail add an option: "Do not filter SPAM"?

I

[ianized]

Here's a quick and simple solution:

Create a 2nd gmail account.

Use your existing filter in your 1stGmail account to fwd to 2ndGmail
(instead of fwding to your phone).

Use the FORWARDING SETTING in the 2ndGmail account to fwd to your
phone.

The 2ndGmail account will get rid of the spam for you.

Cheers,
I