You have to be quick because spam is deleted after 30 days and those may soon be over.

How to say No to Spam and Yes to Newsletters in Gmail

Questions for All of You using Gmail…

• Are you using Gmail? Don’t you think it’s great?
• Do you use it as the only email system for you?
• Something else… Are you subscribed to some or many Newsletters or other subscriptions?

If you do then you must have noticed that you have less spam and also fewer newsletters in your Inbox.
That sounds good But there is a big butttt

So where did my Newsletters go?

I have not done much research on this but based on my emperical experience I think, since the end of July 2009, Gmail considers all messages that you do not have have an email address entry for in your Contacts, to be spam and routes them to your spam box.

Oops, I will lose Newsletters and other valuable messages after 30 days in my Gmail spam

So I suddenly realized, with the spam only being kept for 30 days, according to Google, I had better check which Newsletters and what other valuable messages are now suddenly pushed to my spam box.

Until a month or so ago I never ever looked in my spam box and was never happy if I had to go there. It is just not the most positive or pleasant side of humanity that I can appreciate there.

Because I see that many other people will run into this isue, I made 3 videos.
>>> To view the videos properly, click through to Youtube and click on full screen) bottom right. <<<<

1.  Gmail less spam but also fewer newsletters. How to solve this. Update your contacts. 14aug09 part 1of3

2. Gmail less spam but also fewer newsletters. How to solve this. Update your contacts. 14aug09 part 2of3

Some Tips To save you valuable messages out of the spam box

Enter this in the Gmail search field: “in:spam keyword1 “word1 word2″  -keyword3″
this means, look in the folder called spam, then show keyword 1 and two words between quotes and do not show keyword3.

Important keywords to check when you are searching through your spam:

Just copy this next line into the search box, to show you all the messages with any of these words:
in:spam invoice OR bill OR “bank of america” OR paypal OR invoice OR bill OR Newsletter -”put here what you do not want to see”
Note that the OR makes your search more wide. When you have found one email address that you wish to revive, add that at the end of the search criteria. That way you make your search more narrow to all emails of that sender and you can Add the email address to your Contacts and then Move these all back to your Inbox.
These are the steps to Follow:

1. add the exact email address in between double quotes to the end of the search criteria
   for example: For Bank Of America I had 4 different email adresses that they send from.
   I’m sure they will have extra work in the future.
   “onlinestmt@ealerts.bankofamerica.com” for online statements from bank of america;
   “onlinebanking@ealerts.bankofamerica.com” for Banking Alerts;
   “billpay@billpay.bankofamerica.com“, I gues for Bill Pay;
   “survey.research-8246@satisfactionsurvey.bankofamerica.com” now this is where BoA is going to have a hard time, unles they put all survey under one name;
   “BankofAmerica@customerloyalty.bankofamerica.com” Well this one is one of those APR ones, so I did not add this to my Contacts. Let’s see what will happen here
   Note that I just took Bank of America as one example but any others may be important in your case.
2. Check that you have that same email address in your contacts.
3. Select all these and click on Move To Inbox so they are safely out of you spam.
4. Remove that email address from the end of your search criteria to see the previous wider selection gain.
5. Then repeat step 1 through 4 for the next email address

Gmail should warn you that when you receive a message and add the email address to your contacts, that there are more messages of same sender, also in your spam, but they don’t… yet!

3. Gmail how to not lose newsletters by updating your contacts or white list. 14aug09 part 3of3

Your Happy To Watch Google watcher.

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