a lack of promotional emails may sound good, but a lack of important emails can cost you a fortune. If you are a gmail user experiencing the same in your mailbox, you have come to the right place. In this read, we have listed the best solutions to prevent emails from automatically reaching the gmail spam folder. Meanwhile, you can also preview your email in gmail.
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what are the reasons why emails are sent as spam?
gmail uses certain predefined spam filters to scan all incoming emails in your mailbox to differentiate between spam and genuine emails. once an email is identified as spam, it automatically lands inside a separate spam folder present within gmail. however, a genuine/regular email can sometimes be classified as spam due to the following reasons:
- the sender’s ip address has been marked as spam by gmail.
- presence of typo errors within the content of the email .
- problems with subject line/header.
- presence of inappropriate attachments.
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ways to prevent emails from becoming spam
create a custom gmail filter
One of the most effective ways to prevent emails from reaching your spam folder is to create a custom gmail filter to identify all those emails and prevent them from happening. follow these simple steps to create a gmail filter for him:
- open your gmail account in your web browser.
- identify and copy the sender email address of the email that you think you have has been incorrectly marked as spam.
- Copy the sender’s email address into the search bar and click the show advanced options icon next to the x button.
- In the from section, copy the sender’s email, eg [email protected], or type just the domain name, eg. @gadgetstouse.com to apply the settings to all related emails in the domain.
- click the create filter button.
- Turn on never spam and also apply filters to matching conversations and click the create filter button.
- that’s it. all previous and upcoming emails received will arrive directly to your main inbox.
mark and report received emails as not spam
If you think an important email has accidentally landed in your spam folder within gmail, you can tell gmail to prevent it from doing so. gmail provides a specific report no spam button to achieve this. follow these simple steps to do the same.
- open your gmail account in the web browser.
- in the left sidebar, scroll down to locate spam and click it to open all spam emails.
- click the report not spam button to tell gmail to avoid labeling all messages as spam in your mailbox.
- that’s it. all those emails will now go directly to your main inbox instead of becoming spam.
add a sender to your contacts to avoid the spam tag
another effective method to prevent emails from going straight to your spam folder is to add the sender’s email address as one of your google contacts. By default, Gmail never marks an email received from your contacts as spam unless you do so manually. follow these simple steps to add a sender’s address to your contacts.
- Open gmail in your web browser and locate the email address of the sender whose conversations are being marked as spam.
- pass mouse over hover over the sender’s name and click the add to contacts button to add the sender to your contacts.
The sender’s email address will be instantly added to your google contacts and more email threads will always arrive in your main inbox.
bonus tip: avoid clicking links in spam emails
Now that you’ve learned how to fix emails that have been incorrectly marked as spam, it’s time for you to learn how to avoid and block links received through such emails. follow this detailed guide on how to avoid clicking links in spam emails.
summarizing: mailbox control
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