I’ve had the same problem for about 9 months now and it’s driving me crazy. after many years of absolutely fantastic spam filters, where emails were simply marked as potential spam but left in my inbox for me to decide (but always correct), a few updates ago a mail folder appeared spam by itself (no I don’t want or request it, but I can’t delete it), and now you get 10-20 emails a day, almost all of which aren’t spam; as others have said, many are even mine!
And it doesn’t matter a whit what mail filtering rules I set up: I’ve tried it with every option I can see, including trusting known senders, no filtering, and everything else. no difference. any. nothing ninte the computer is still hell-bent on putting half of my emails in the spam folder, even if I ask it not to filter the spam at all.
I’ve missed a lot of work because of this, because client emails keep getting filtered there, and the ones in the spam folder don’t show up on mobile, so if I’m away from home and I’m using my phone or ipad I don’t see them until I get back, by which time someone else has invariably gotten the contract (I’m a freelance translator). this is incredibly annoying – i’m starting to feel like billing apple for missed work. I work very often for a large translation agency and receive between 10 and 20 emails a day. pretty much all (but interestingly not all, about 10% escape) emails from them go to the spam folder, even though they’re in my address book, are a vip sender, etc. I really can’t imagine how a filtering system could be more useless than this: It’s not even consistent, because only 90% of your emails get filtered, so god knows what criteria the system is using, so it lets slip to some of the network. it’s unimaginably bad, and it’s been that way for months and months.
Until recently I thought I was the only one suffering, but luckily it seems I’m not, so maybe, just maybe, something will be done about it.
what seems to have happened is that something wasn’t broken, but someone had to come and try to fix it anyway; that seems to be the scourge of silicon valley, because facebook loves to do it too. and many others too. why the hell can’t you leave something alone if it’s working really well?
It used to be so good and now it’s so unbelievably bad: it’s gone from being the best email system I’ve ever used to the worst, in one fell swoop. why do we have to have a trash folder? I don’t want one but I can’t delete it. marking messages as potentially junk and then letting me decide was a great system. East *****. it’s absolutely fucked up.
let me say it again: the worst aspect of this is that
Emails from the spam filter don’t transfer to mobile devices, so I can’t see them when I’m not home.
why is this? it’s completely idiotic, because it assumes the system is 100% correct, when in fact it’s 90% wrong at the moment: virtually none of the email that goes to the spam folder is actually junk.
help…