Alternative to the spam folder for blocking spam gmails?

kitpzyxmsir said:

I understand, but since I mentioned "gmail", I figured it would be understood it's the website. not an email app, since there are no "more" options elsewhere?

You figured wrong, we're not here to guess what you want or what you do it with.

mngerhold said:

What do you mean by 'maintaining'? What is there to maintain? If you mean the folder the spam emails go in to, just delete them. If you mean a list of spammer email addresses, it shouldn't require active action beyond adding new spammers occasionally.

In my OP I asked

"Instead of maintaining an ever growing spam folder, is there another way to deal with it?"

Keyword being another, ,i. e., permanently blocking spam by not involving the spam folder. All I was looking for was a simple yes or no, and hopefully, if the answer was yes, instructions to accomplish that. Why? Because I have to be vigilant about my Google storage too easily and often getting maxed out. The spam folder is contributing to that, thus I was hoping for alternative to avoid that.

In order to keep things simple and straightforward, I concluded that it wasn't necessary/mandatory to include that info in order to get a response to my inquiry.

My original notion was when something is removed from the spam folder, it's no longer considered spam. I thought that was possibly a reasonable conclusion from an inexperienced dummy like me. Does that make sense? According to your response, maybe I am mistaken. Can you confirm that one way for another?

dalchina said:

Had you considered trying a search for such instructions?

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and you may prefer:

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Hi dalchina,

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the two methods in the first image move messages to the spam folder? If so, that's what I'm trying to avoid. If not, and it is in fact another way to block spam without the spam folder involvement, then that would be the sort of answer I'm looking for.

I was hoping there was some kind of immediate, uncomplicated way to add unwanted senders to some type of "list", thus avoiding the spam folder. It looks like your third option possibly fits in that category.

That said, resurrecting the client discussion that was raised earlier, I have Thunderbird, but I just haven't had the time to set it up. Does it have an option to address this?

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mngerhold said:

When you delete spam it goes into the bin. That does not mark it as 'not spam'. Emptying the bin removes it completely (after a while). Nothing here is mandatory, but every aspect you omit to mention, on the grounds it might be obvious, is a recipe for confusion, which then has to be sorted out.

My friends here would probably confirm that I tend to be verbose (understatement - see this thread for evidence) so I'm trying to edit myself and still make my points clear. Unfortunately, I was apparently unsuccessful in this exercise.

That said, you gave me the answer that I was seeking. Thanks.

FYI:

Use filters.

How to Automatically Delete Spam Emails In Gmail – TechCult

For any persistent spam create a filter to automatically delete it using key words if those same key words appear in multiple spam messages.

See:

Gmail spam filter - How to set it up and customise it - IONOS

Also if a particular domain (the part of an email address after the ampersand (@) is a problem then block the domain and not the entire email address.

In the filter box, the “From” text field will have the sender’s address. To filter the domain, you can just inspect the email address. If, for example, the message is from someone@laserstrike.com, deleting "Someone" would leave the @laserstrike.com part. So emails from that domain will be filtered.

mngerhold said:

This has to be one of the most difficult statements to parse that I have come across. Do you mean that no email apps have a 'more' option, only gmail's web interface?

That's why I ended it with a "?". Apparently, another misguided decision trying to brief.

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Callender said:

FYI:

Use filters.

How to Automatically Delete Spam Emails In Gmail – TechCult

For any persistent spam create a filter to automatically delete it using key words if those same key words appear in multiple spam messages.

See:

Gmail spam filter - How to set it up and customise it - IONOS

Also if a particular domain (the part of an email address after the ampersand (@) is a problem then block the domain and not the entire email address.

In the filter box, the “From” text field will have the sender’s address. To filter the domain, you can just inspect the email address. If, for example, the message is from someone@laserstrike.com, deleting "Someone" would leave the @laserstrike.com part. So emails from that domain will be filtered.

Xlnt. Thank you

I use Outlook as my desktop email client, with my ISP Comcast/Xfinity. (they do a so-so job of filtering spam.)

For a long time, I tried to block spam senders. Then one day I looked at the list of blocked senders. Ridiculous. The spammers constantly change domain names, sometimes the secondary name only. e.g. joeshithead@A.garbage.com and then joeshithead@B.garbage.com. Or else some ridiculously long name, but then use the same name with many different domains.

For a while I tried editing the list, but it was a fool's errand. Spammers have gotten very sophisticated.

Then someone told me about Mail Washer for Outlook. It works but requires attention to each specific email, a real time-waster. Easier to just delete spam that Comcast doesn't filter out.

Sad, but true.