Any clue why messages that have never been marked as either good or spam are all of a sudden being sent to spam en masse? They’re on my own domain, hosted by Gmail. I have no rules set up in the Apple Mail client and I have no filters set up on the Gmail server end. If something hasn’t been designated as good or spam, I thought the default behavior was to allow into the inbox until specifically trained. Am I mistaken?
This page explains how you can tell whether this is happening because of SpamSieve. Based on your description, my guess is that the Gmail spam filter is doing this.
Yes, you are mistaken. SpamSieve wouldn’t be very useful if it could only filter senders/messages that it had already seen before.
Thanks. So what you are saying is that, if SS has not seen the email or the source before it is, by default, coded as spam?
No, I’m saying that if you haven’t specifically allowed or blocked the sender (or some other aspect of the message), SpamSieve will look at the entire message contents (compared against all the previous messages it’s been trained with) to determine whether it’s spam.
Ok. Thanks. It’s a new installation on a new computer and I didn’t have this issue with the last laptop. So I guess I just need to watch my spam folder very closely for a while.
I still say that you should first see whether the messages were moved to Junk by SpamSieve vs. something else. If it’s a new installation, it’s good to do an initial training or copy the training from your old Mac.