Feb 9, 2022

Gmail spam filter gone crazy

My gmail spam filter is now filtering 90%+ of my legitimate emails. I have gone through and marked "not spam" numerous times and it still filters them.  How can I reset my spam filter so this doesn't keep happening.  I know that I can setup a rule but I don't want to need a rule for every single email that I receive. 
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Feb 9, 2022
When you find these messages in spam, what is the reason given for WHY they are there?
 
Are these senders in your contacts?
 
Does making a filter for or or two senders work to keep them out of Spam?
Mar 23, 2022
As of Feb 2nd my messages a lot started going to spam. I have contacted google several times with no reply

Mar 23, 2022
Same issue going on for me as well.   Started approx 45 days ago and appears to have stumped google tech support completely.  All of my emails are going straight into my GMAIL clients spam folders (even existing customers who have exchanged emails with me before with no issues). All of my clients emails are going into my spam folder because I use gmail to send / recieve my domain mail.  I hope that someone smarter than me fixes this issue ASAP.  (clients not using google for email are working fine) 
Mar 27, 2022
I think I've found a solution - 
a colleague suggested that we turn off any 'tracking pixels' or 'invisible pixels' as they seem to trigger Gmail's spam filters. this started happening last week.

We're using a third party to send our emails. As soon as I turned off "email tracking" (using invisible pixels), they stopped going into the spam folder!

the downside is we can't tell anymore if the recipient opened the email, but it's 100x better than ending in the Spam folder.

I hope it stays this way :) 
Last edited Mar 27, 2022
Mar 27, 2022
We're using a third party to send our emails. As soon as I turned off "email tracking" (using invisible pixels), they stopped going into the spam folder!
 
That's a very interesting bit of information.  Thanks for sharing it.
May 3, 2022
Same issue with the new rules of filtering. In my business, we've missed a lot of critical mails droped in the spams....
May 3, 2022
...we've missed a lot of critical mails droped in the spams....
 
You should probably be checking spam daily, or even hourly for any false positives.  There is zero reason to miss any messages miss-filtered to spam.
May 4, 2022
We have multiple people in our office having the same issue.  Also when my office people email from their gmail accounts it goes to spam.  I get this

""Be careful with this message
Gmail could not verify that it actually came from densification.com. Avoid clicking links, downloading attachments, or replying with personal information.
Report spamReport phishing""

I am getting now dozens of emails from verified senders sent to spam.  I use gmail to fetch my email from our work email and it sends 70 to 80% to spam and I need to check it daily for emails I am missing.  When will this be fixed and what is gmail doing about this problem.  It is making us consider using outlook or other products to stop this from happening....
May 4, 2022
Also to help I have been setting up rules in my filters to combat this but it is now daily I need to add a new rules.  Also even with rules some is still being sent to spam.
May 10, 2022
You should probably be checking spam daily, or even hourly for any false positives.  There is zero reason to miss any messages miss-filtered to spam.

What, then, is the point of having a spam filter? 
May 10, 2022
What, then, is the point of having a spam filter? 
 
To keep it out of your Inbox so you're not being bombarded with spam all day long.  You can check it for false positives when convenient, and not have to deal with it every time one arrives.
May 10, 2022
I'm having the same problem from multiple accounts. I've almost missed out on paying contracts on my freelancer account.  I'm also a market coordinator for a local pop-up market and my acceptance emails are being sent to spam.  This is happening with vendors I've previously had no issues with and have sent multiple emails back and forth with. Vendors that don't have a Gmail based address are receiving them just fine. This is SO frustrating and not only costing me me jobs in my freelance career, but also making my coordinating duties 10x harder because I have to send the vendor acceptance email out and then track everyone down on social media to tell them to check their spam folder. Google needs to turn the dial on the filter down. 
May 19, 2022
We're using a third party to send our emails. As soon as I turned off "email tracking" (using invisible pixels), they stopped going into the spam folder!

This as well as removing any links in the email including unsubscribe links as well as photos. Did some test emails with these elements removed and all emails went from spam into inbox. 

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