I’ve been using Gmail for quite a while now, and I’ve grown rather attached to it - having searchable access to my email anywhere I have internet access is great.

Apart from universal access, The other great thing is the spam detection stuff. For the most part, it does a great job. In the last 30 days or so, it successfully picked up nearly 10,000 spam emails. 

GMail’s spam detection is also my greatest annoyance. 

Gmail Needs a “Whitelist” function

I’m subscribed to a fairly high-traffic mailing list.  I’ve got GMail set up to automatically tag the mailing list traffic, and push it into the archive so it doesn’t clog up my inbox.  

However, for some reason every day several of the emails will get marked as spam, for no apparent reason. There doesn’t appear to be a way to ‘white list’ the mailing list address either.  So, every day, I’ll miss out on certain posts in a thread, which will make it difficult to read. Sure enough, if I go look in the spam folder - there they are. 

Gmail also needs a “Blacklist” function

Because of certain choices I made a while back, I need a ‘catch-all’ enabled on my domain (ideally it’d be a partial catch-all, but my host doesn’t permit that). For some reason my host also enables mail on the mailserver domain with the same rules as the primary domain.  This leads to really large quantities of spam being received.

Google catches the majority of it - however there are certain things that I can filter that I can guarantee are spam.  Google however doesn’t let me add a rule to let me push things into the Spam box, so it can learn from these - instead, I have to push them into the Trash.  Which works much the same as the Spam box, but instead of GMail learning from these, it just deletes them.