Tag: spam
Disable Gmail / Google Apps spam filtering
by Andrew Dekker on Jan.09, 2009, under How To's
Disable Gmail Spam Filtering
If you are a regular user of both Gmail and a desktop email client, then no doubt you have run (even if you have not realised) into the issue of Gmail catching legitimate email as spam. While this isn’t such a big deal if you are using the web interface, it is a nightmare for users of email clients such as Mail or Outlook – where your junk folder is not normally visible. With the release of Google Apps for businesses, this can become a very very bad thing, when suddenly you start missing critical emails. Whats worse, is that Google doesn’t provide an option to disable spam filtering, even for Google Apps. However, there is a work-around, and while quite silly, its easy as to implement.
- Log into the web interface on Gmail / Google Apps Email
- Click settings in the top right hand corner
- Click the Filters tab in the settings
- Create a new filter
- In the “Has the words” field, enter “is:spam” (without quotations) and click next step
- Ignore the ridiculous and untrue popup message
- Check “Never send to spam”
- You should now see that in your filters if a message is tagged with “is:spam”, then it is never sent to the junk folder
And its done – completely silly, but it works. Now you will never miss an email again (even those hundreds of Viagra ads, so be warned). The only big pain with this is if you are hosting a lot of Google Apps users, you need each user to manually do this, rather than having it system wide.
