Maximum Numbers Of Filters

sirlaguna · 10-15-2005, 05:21 AM

Some a**holes keep sending me spam from various addresses I keep blocking the addresses useing filters on Gmail is there a filter limit or will they never run out eg. some free e-mail sites only give you 10 filters is Gmail like this?
Thanks for the help!

Aírmanareiks Þiudareiks · 10-15-2005, 06:05 AM

No limit, actually.

sirlaguna · 10-15-2005, 06:06 AM

Thanks Eiríkr Rauði

Lupine1647 · 10-15-2005, 10:01 AM

It's really pointless to block by e-mail address anyways since spammers don't use the real e-mail address.

mondine · 10-15-2005, 10:20 AM

Yes, don't waste your time with fake, or disposable addresses. Better to look for things like keywords to base the filter on.

davekeogh · 10-15-2005, 04:18 PM

Maybe we need something like spamassassin for gmail. But i feel the best thing to do is to keep reporting the junk to google. I used to get junk to my inbox, and i kept clicking 'Report As Spam' and after a while it starting going to my junk mail. It must use some sort of context checking. Gmail is my first account that hasn't been flooded with spam. Before this i had a very short email address with iol and i'd get about 100 to 150 junk emails a day, with no way of surpressing it. Plus i'd a hotmail address... with 2Mb of storage that just wasn't enough. When gmail came along i was delight! and still am! just report it. Google uses Exim i believe, with is running on linux so they probably have some sort of spamassassin running...

korimeister · 10-15-2005, 05:06 PM

hey ı m new in google community.so ı can t use gmail or etc well.
can someone tell me how ı can use the filters?
and what is it use for?
thnx........

mondine · 10-15-2005, 05:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by korimeister

hey ı m new in google community.so ı can t use gmail or etc well.
can someone tell me how ı can use the filters?
and what is it use for?
thnx........

When you're in your Gmail account, click on "Create a New Filter". It doesn't matter if you're not ready to, you can always cancel, or delete it.

Any filter will basically give you two sets of things to do: specify what to look for, and then, what to do with it. You have a few options to look over in each category.

Say you've got one guy that's being a pain. You enter his address, and then make the filter send him straight to the trash.

If you get lots of spam from different addresses, try to look for some common words that only those will contain, like "Viagra", or "sale", or whatever. Use the test button to see what mail will be affected by what filter.

You can also use filters to organize your mail, like making a "business" label to apply to business contacts as soon as they come in, etc.

Prathab · 10-16-2005, 08:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mondine

You can also use filters to organize your mail, like making a "business" label to apply to business contacts as soon as they come in, etc.

cool feature by gmail

10-15-2005, 05:21 AM	#1 (permalink)
sirlaguna Master Googler Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: ALONE IN THE DARK Posts: 788 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Maximum Numbers Of Filters Some a**holes keep sending me spam from various addresses I keep blocking the addresses useing filters on Gmail is there a filter limit or will they never run out eg. some free e-mail sites only give you 10 filters is Gmail like this? Thanks for the help!

10-15-2005, 10:20 AM	#5 (permalink)
mondine Google Guru Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Vancouver, BC. Posts: 4,002 Thanks: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 3 Posts	Yes, don't waste your time with fake, or disposable addresses. Better to look for things like keywords to base the filter on. __________________

10-15-2005, 04:18 PM	#6 (permalink)
davekeogh Junior Googler Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Dublin Posts: 44 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	spamassassin for gmail Maybe we need something like spamassassin for gmail. But i feel the best thing to do is to keep reporting the junk to google. I used to get junk to my inbox, and i kept clicking 'Report As Spam' and after a while it starting going to my junk mail. It must use some sort of context checking. Gmail is my first account that hasn't been flooded with spam. Before this i had a very short email address with iol and i'd get about 100 to 150 junk emails a day, with no way of surpressing it. Plus i'd a hotmail address... with 2Mb of storage that just wasn't enough. When gmail came along i was delight! and still am! just report it. Google uses Exim i believe, with is running on linux so they probably have some sort of spamassassin running...

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Aírmanareiks Þiudareiks Elite Googler Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Posts: 1,279 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	No limit, actually.

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Lupine1647 Elite Googler Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Kansas City, Missouri Posts: 1,065 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	It's really pointless to block by e-mail address anyways since spammers don't use the real e-mail address.

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korimeister Noogle Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: fiji Posts: 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	hey ı m new in google community.so ı can t use gmail or etc well. can someone tell me how ı can use the filters? and what is it use for? thnx........

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