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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.

 

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

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 "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