Gmail: Google's approach to email

Gmail is the first email service I have used that blocked out a lot of frightening spam. Since I'm a kid, that's important to me, and to my mom. : ) I also liked how when this one type of spam kept getting through, I hit one button and it never showed up again.



Lily
New York

Labels: blocking spam

I'm happy because I'm down to one email (they all forward to Gmail), and the spam they didn't catch, Gmail does! It's nice to know when my iGoogle says "Inbox (1)", I actually have a relevant message and I'm not wasting my time deleting yet another spam. Thank you for reclaiming my Inbox.



Chris Stepaniuk, Software Engineer
Calgary, Canada

Labels: blocking spam

I have been using Gmail for over 1 year now and the ease and comfort provided is par excellence. Also the way it handles spam is outstanding...almost 95% of my daily count of about 50-60 spam mails are filtered directly into the spam box...I just wonder where I would be if this was not the case.



Jitendra Adhikari, IT Specialist
Secunderabad, India

Labels: blocking spam

Spam filtering is second to none. If something gets through, it only gets through once. I tell Gmail that it's spam, and it's never seen or heard from again. On the flip side, if something is accidentally labeled as spam, a couple of clicks, and poof, it's all acceptable.



Frank. ATM Technician
Western USA

Labels: blocking spam

I used to get well over 12,000 spam messages (this is not an exaggeration) in my inbox a month before I switched to Gmail. Ifilter my other email accounts through Gmail just to get rid of all the spam!



Jacinda Phillips, Business Owner/Operator
Portland, Oregon

Labels: blocking spam

I have an 11 year old who wanted so much to keep in touch with family in another state with email. I set her up an account with another provider a couple of years ago but no matter how hard I tried, I could never prevent inappropriate email from getting through. I had to stop letting her use it. I started using Gmail many months ago and noticed that I never got ONE unsolicited email. Not one. I decided that it would be safe to set her up with an account and it's worked perfectly. I've really pushed it as an option for the kids in our family and they absolutely love it...



Rachel, Software Support
Texas

Labels: blocking spam

My mom's on old fashion dial up with her email provided on her desktop. For years I've been hearing her complain about the amount of inappropriate junk mail she gets all mixed in with her church mailers and quilter newsletters. I've never been able to do much by the way of filtering her mail... Then one day, as I'm checking over my news headlines, friend blogs, and recipes on my Google homepage, it hits me! Why not set my mom up with a Gmail account and a customized homepage!? An hour later I'd set up her internet provider email address to deliver its contents to her new Gmail account, given her a seashore themed customized homepage with recipes, daily bible verses and her own junk-mail-sorting Gmail account. I did it all from my computer at home without her knowledge and then stopped over at her place to upload her addresses and set Google as her homepage. It was a wonderful surprise!



Lea Stewart, Secretary
Waterloo, Iowa

Labels: blocking spam

Thanks to Gmail, I do not have to sort through the over 3500 spam emails I currently get per month! It used to be that I would receive over 5000 spam emails per month, all of which Gmail caught! I am glad that I use Gmail, because I do not need to worry about my email address being harvested like I did using other services!



Bryan Wyatt, Student
Dallas, Texas

Labels: blocking spam

I used to have an email account with another service, and spam was EVERYWHERE. So when Gmail first came out I made an account. Once I was able to merge my two accounts, nearly 3/4 of the email was automatically taken to the spam folder. The labels helped me stay organized with my new found, and long lost, emails.



Chris McClendon, Student
Georgia

Labels: blocking spam

Two years ago I was working for a local ISP. Our biggest problem was the huge volume of spam. No matter what our engineers came up with, we just couldn't find a decent way to handle it all. We created four servers to handle all the mail and still they would get so over loaded that at some times mail would take hours to deliver. Gmail has wowed and amazed me. Even during the holidays, when spam is the worst, I might get one piece a week. That is truly incredible. Had the ISP that I had been working for discovered whatever it is that Gmail engineers found to handle all the junk, my job would have been a lot less stressful. Oh, and yes, I do look every so often to see if I have ever lost a legitimate piece in the Spam section, and I have never found one.



Steven Wood, Retail Store Manager
Richland, WA

Labels: blocking spam

My husband is deployed (Army) in Afghanistan and when we can't talk on the phone we email, or I write up drafts for when he does call, so I remember what I wanted to talk to him about. (If I just wrote it down, my 1 1/2 year old daughter would get it somehow and I'd never find it again.) With our previous service, I had to go through hundreds and hundreds of spam mail everyday in order to find emails from my husband. And then my inbox quota would be full and I wouldn't even get my husband's emails. Needless to say my husband and I both have GMAIL now. And ZERO SPAM.



Rachael
USA

Labels: blocking spam

Gmail's spam detection is top notch. My email address is displayed across many websites including my own, which holds a 20+ thousand member registration, and still I don't receive nearly much spam in my inbox as I do with other accounts.



David Singh, Web Designer
New York

Labels: blocking spam

Gmail's spam detection is top notch. My email address is displayed across many websites including my own, which holds a 20+ thousand member registration, and still I don't receive nearly much spam in my inbox as I do with other accounts.



David Singh, Web Designer
New York

Labels: blocking spam

I switched to Gmail because I didn't appreciate all the ads on that would pop up with other services. Not only did I not want to see that all the time... it also got uncomfortable to check my personal email at work.



Summer, Insurance Customer Service
Green Bay, WI

Labels: blocking spam

Who doesn't love that Gmail has the best spam filter around?! No need to scan through the crap I want to avoid in the first place. Gmail always keeps me straight in this hectic world.



Alexis,
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Labels: blocking spam

We have been using Gmail for the past 2 years. We tried many different applications including our own hosting mail server and exchange, but nothing came even close to the functionality and stability of Gmail. One of our big problems was the ever increasing spam to our employees and customers. With Gmail's excellent success rate to trap spam, we are now confident again in using our email for our business life... we can now concentrate on growing our business and increasing sales instead of monitoring and maintaining our email servers. We encourage all our staff to actively use Google Email, Chat, Calendar and Document sharing as it brings our little community even closer.



Chris Mather, IT Productions
Melbourne, Australia

Labels: blocking spam

...Gmail helps me by overcoming unwanted emails, viruses or any malicious scripts, just by blocking them before they start executing...



Sikandar Ahmed, Helpdesk Analyst
Hyderabad

Labels: blocking spam

Never being a fan of web-based email I initially began using Gmail as a repository for junk email. Impressed with it's spam filter reliability I began using it all the time. We all know the headache of configuring spam filters in desktop email clients. People only want their email. Gmail is what you'd expect to get out of web-based email. The others simply cannot compete and behave like they're still designed for 1995.



Beau Hastings
USA

Labels: blocking spam