How to Prevent Gmail from Notifying About Virus or Suspicious Attachments

gmailpop3spam-prevention

I have a Gmail account which is set to pull in emails from an old POP3 account. For various reasons, I need to keep doing this.

At least several times a day I will get the following email from "Gmail Team":

The message "something spammy" from Fake Company (fake@company.com)
contained a virus or suspicious attachment. It was therefore not
fetched from your account me@pop3account.com and has been left on
the server.

Message ID:

If you wish to write to Fake Company, just click reply and send Fake
Company a message.

Thanks,

The Gmail Team

It's great that they aren't fetching this email and I have absolutely no desire to go and find out what "Fake Company" are sending me, but it would be really nice if Gmail didn't keep telling me this.

Is there any way I can turn this message off?

Best Answer

You can't "turn this off" as far as I know, however, you can set up a filter that automatically archives, or even deletes these informative messages.

Personally, I archive all these messages and apply a label, so I can easily find them again if I really need to.

Gmail used to prefix the subject line with "Message left on server:" which made it easy to filter these messages based purely on the subject.

However, Gmail no longer does this (the subject is the same as the original spam email - which makes it harder to determine until you actually open the email! Why Google?). You can still filter on the From and Message Body fields:

  • From: mail-noreply@google.com
  • Includes the words: and has been left on the server or contained a virus or a suspicious attachment. It was therefore not fetched from your account (as mentioned in comments)
  • Skip the Inbox (Archive it) or Delete it
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