I’ve been having issues with Gmail lately; I find legit emails in my spam folder. When I try to move them to my inbox, they go away. And if I don’t check spam often enough, the system deletes them. So I don’t know how many legit emails I may have missed. Since my business is mainly done via email, this isn’t good. I’ve had issues in the past, which led to my switch to gmail. Will try to get this resolved, but if I can’t, I’ll be looking for another solution. Eeek.
Meanwhile, the 5 messages I just tried to “unspam” from spam have vanished into an electronic void. If you haven’t heard back from me, please email again.
Editing to add: if you have Gmail and have had the same issue, here’s what the husband told me. When a message is moved out of spam, it loses its label, so it ends up in “all mail”. I did go searching through “all mail” and eventually found the messages I’d tried to liberate from Spam yesterday, but you really have to wade.
*running to check MY spam folder*
Yeah, kind of freaked me out. I just assumed that anything that was sent via my web contact form wouldn’t get marked as spam. And I did start checking over the last two months after a contract to my direct email addy somehow went astray, so as long as I check often enough the spam folder doesn’t auto-empty before I see a message. I just know now that moving a message from spam doesn’t guarantee I’ll get it, so I’ll reply directly from there if I have to.
That’s not good at all.
Picture me doing that famous painting, “The Scream” and that about covers it! I really don’t want to do another email change.
I back up all of my gmail accounts in thunderbird. It’s free from Mozilla and it’s a great way to keep your emails on your computer rather than just online.
That way you don’t have to change email providers again. You should try it
I have Thunderbird, and I do this, but for some reason those mis-marked Spam messages never got delivered to Thunderbird. Trust me, I don’t wanna change email providers. It’s a special inner circle of hell.