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Auto-delete Your Spam In Gmail - finally, get rid of all that spam!

 
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 Last Update: June 16, 2011, 4:12 pm ( View Rated (2) )
 
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i have been using gmail for quite a while, and have always hated hotmail. i hate it now more than ever now that it is 'windows live mail'.

however, there has always been something about gmail that bugs me: how on earth do i get rid of all that spam? i mean, doesn't it ever bug you when you have 3 new messages in your inbox, and then 56 bits of spam? and then you have to manually head to the spam folder, and delete them all? i know gmail offer you a lot of space and i know the spam messages get deleted after 30 days, but for me it is a phsychological thing: i simply do not want that spam there!

well, the other day i learned how to auto-delete your spam: in other words, automatically send it to your trash bin. i thought i might share it with my fellow gmail users...

1. firstly, sign in to your gmail account

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2. head to your 'settings' tab

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3. go to the 'filters' tab

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4. click on 'create a new filter'

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5. leaving the other fields empty, in the 'has the words' box, type the following without the quotes: 'is:spam'
then, click on 'next step'

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6. then, a box will come up asking you if you would like to continue, say 'ok'

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7. finally, there will be a screen asking you what you want to with this mail. tick only the 'delete it' box then click 'create filter'.

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8. DONE!!!


NOTE: i dont do this, and it is not necessary since all of the stuff in the spam folder is actually spam for me, however if you like you may check your trash bin from time to time to see if something has been deleted which is not spam.

enjoy a spam-free spam folder!

   Sat Feb 2, 2008    Reply         

Yeah this is a great feature of gmail. On Hotmail you dont get as much control over the filters as Gmail offer. For example in Hotmail it only allows you to block email addresses and there is no other filter facility. I got spam everyday on hotmail so I stoped using it awhile. I got worse spam on my yahoo account as it was one of my first emails. I dont even use it now. I'm not sure what yahoo offers in terms of spam control.

   Sat Feb 2, 2008    Reply         

Lol, I didnt know this thing in GMail, Thanks for this tutorial I knew it. Some spammers are already spamming in my spam folder. At least I have the solution now!

   Sat Feb 2, 2008    Reply         


although it`s nice solution i am afraid to do this.. sometimes, gmail puts activation mails in spam folder so if i create this filter, i would have problems with registration on some sites.. still, it`s a good tut..

   Sun Feb 3, 2008    Reply         

nice. its a good thing ive found this thread. it would help a lot. thnx!

   Thu Feb 7, 2008    Reply         

thats pretty cool, the only problem I could see is that if you get something sent to you it will automatically be deleted, and may never know; so you would have to check your trash alot when your expecting something and hasn't recieved

   Fri Feb 8, 2008    Reply         


Well I do not know how this is good since google has really good spam filter and it is always checking for spam in the new comming messages especially if they are not from trusted address. And how good google engine is you may read here its more of the bernoulli analysis but it sounds good.

And furthermore I qwould like to note that any messages in the spam folder are deleted automatically after certain time interval expires and one more important thing is that sometimes you might actually recieve message from some source like reistration mail and so on that will be sent into the trash bean if you enable this or in fact in the spam folder.

I leave it as it should SPAM mail should be sent in the spam folder I neveer read it and I never delete it there are some 400 messages and they are deleted automatically. So you see what is the point. Imagine that I would have to delete all those messages by myself.

   Fri Feb 8, 2008    Reply         

That's clever! I didn't know filters could be this useful. Thanks for sharing.

   Fri Feb 8, 2008    Reply         

that is true, I've very rarely had to read anything in Spam and mark as "not spam" it does make life alot easier, and I think that is pretty darn cool!

   Fri Feb 8, 2008    Reply         

Nice tutorial, although I'm not going to use it. My spam folder is not 100% spam.

But I don't see why you hate Windows Live Mail. Okay, I agree that Gmail's better than Live, but Live looks much better and I have an account in each of the two.

Da Chicken

   Sat Feb 9, 2008    Reply         

Thanks for the tut. I too am afraid that activation emails may be marked as spam by gmail, but I think I'm willing to give this a try and see how effective it really is.

   Sat Feb 9, 2008    Reply         

I've used filters for similar purposes.

Of course, the person who said that some activation emails might be deleted is right: if you're waiting for an application email and it doesn't show up in your inbox (Strangely, though, I've never had that problem), it might have been deleted.

I don't advise people use this, otherwise people might not receive activation emails the way they might want to.

   Sat Feb 9, 2008    Reply         

Thanks for this tutorial :o

Before it I had to a)delete spam myself or b)wait 30 days :D

   Sat Feb 9, 2008    Reply         

Hey, the only problem with the spam folder is that it shows the new spam in bold. Yeah right! I have really NEW spam today! Hurray! Why did they have to do that?
Anyway, Bthaxor's suggestion is superb! Btw, if you don't want to send spam to the trash, just select the 'mark as read' option instead of the send to trash.

   Mon Apr 21, 2008    Reply         

Auto-Delete Appears Not to Work
Auto-delete Your Spam In Gmail

Replying to bthaxor

Hi bthaxor,

I tried your instructions. Created the filter. Then forwarded eight spams from my web host account to my gmail account (the messages all had very identifiable SPAM attributes, like male anatomy parts, designer brands, and prescription drug sales). Then I collected my mail from my gmail account using Eudora. All eight spams were passed along to Eudora, rather than being immediately deleted upon recipt by GMail. No one else has expressed a problem with your instructions, yet I followed them exactly (I think!).

Your thoughts on this?

-reply by Marc

   Thu Jul 3, 2008    Reply         

That's cool, I would use it but sometimes my registrations for stuff gets put in there and once in awhile a word of the day gets put in there.

   Sat Jul 12, 2008    Reply         

If you're waiting for an activation email, or know you're registering for something, either turn the filter off until you get the email, or check your trash folder for it when it comes through. Thanks for this tutorial.

-reply by amyvomit

   Fri Aug 1, 2008    Reply         

thank you, spam is now a thing of the pastAuto-delete Your Spam In Gmail

excellent solution! yeehaa, no more looking at the darn spam folder and reading the offensive titles, what a relief!

   Tue Jan 13, 2009    Reply         

Replying to bthaxorSweet. This worked awesome! Thanks very much for that. (I'm sure google's gmail servers also appreciate the lightened load) 460 pieces of crap spam... Poof... Gone.Thanks again.

Dave

   Fri Jan 30, 2009    Reply         

Excellent workAuto-delete Your Spam In GmailThanks for the tutorial I was very irritated about the spams since it fills up nearly 500 messages a day in spam folder and I found this very useful.

Thanks yar. 

-reply by Elango

   Wed Feb 25, 2009    Reply         

GMAIL SPAM FROM MY OWN MAIL ID?Auto-delete Your Spam In GmailWhen I check the Gmail SPAM message, I find 'me' or my own mail ID as sender. How is it possible. Does any one have access to my pw.

 

   Sun Mar 1, 2009    Reply         

RE: GMAIL SPAM FROM MY OWN MAIL ID?Auto-delete Your Spam In Gmail

Quote:

 "When I check the Gmail SPAM message, I find 'me' or my own mail ID asSender. How is it possible. Does any one have access to my pw."

 

No, basically when an email is sent its sent as a massive text file and it has a load of headers at the top, one header is the sender field, you can change the sender to whatever you like.  Most commercial and free mail providers online don't allow users to specify the sender, google mail will let you specify a different sender for accounts you authorise in the settings section under the heading 'send mail as', but basically just because it says its from x @ y.Com doesn't mean its actually from there, the reply to field will usually be the person it's really from.

 This tutorial is kinda pointless, as the spam folder IS the bin, just a different view of it, if the spam count bugs you that much there's a gmail labs feature that hides the unread counts, I'd use it instead

 

   Sat Nov 21, 2009    Reply         

Sweeeeeeeeeeeet!!!! Thank you so much!!! :lol:

   Fri Aug 20, 2010    Reply         

THANKS SO MUCH...I HAVE WONDERED HOW TO DO THIS FOR AWHILE AND NOW ITS DONE... YOU ARE GREAT...

   Sat Mar 5, 2011    Reply         

I don't think this is a good idea. Yes, I too do not like having all the spam I get in my spam box. However the "report spam" button actually does report it. If you have a filter that just deletes it then you are reporting the fact that you are getting that spam.

   Thu Jun 16, 2011    Reply         

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