Have you ever been waiting for an important email only to find out it went into your spam folder? This can be frustrating if you're waiting on correspondence from someone, but it can also be ...

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A: While it sounds a bit counter-intuitive, seeing a large number of messages arrive in your spam folder each day does not necessarily indicate a problem. The junk folder itself (a.k.a. spam folder) ...

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QUESTION: Why can’t I get an important email message containing a link that I need but other messages from the same company come through just fine? ANSWER: Few things in the tech world are as ...

The search giant is now using savvier machine learning to better tell which messages are legit and which ones are junk. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

Losing an important email can be frustrating, especially if it ended up in Gmail’s Spam folder and got deleted before you realized it. Whether you deleted it yourself or it disappeared after Gmail’s ...

Spam is annoying and can sometimes be dangerous if it's part of a widespread phishing attack. When you see spam, you delete it, at least that's what conventional wisdom suggests. However, it now seems ...