Gmail – Spam issue with Gmail

Reporting as spam emails with "good" keywords (the kind that looks like it is actually written by a human being) is difficult because of the concern you are obviously voicing. However, most spam intelligence will not only look at the message itself, but other components like who sent it, where it came from, and who it was sent to.

• By reporting as spam you are providing the community a service in that you are reinforcing the identification of those other components as spam-ly behavior
• You can attempt to remove your name from wherever it came from, but in all likelihood that is like feeding trolls.

Okay, this question is still getting a lot of views so I figure it's a good idea to post up the solution for my case at least.

What was happening, is regardless of my Gmail settings, Windows Live Mail was taking over and moving emails back into my spam, even if I used the "Never send to spam" filter as recommended by AI E.

To this this, I took the following steps:

1. In Windows Live Mail click the Tools menu, and then click Junk e‑mail Options.

2. Select the protection level you want. In my case I did No automatic filtering which just lets Gmail manage the spam folder entirely on it's own.

More info here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-vista/block-spam-and-other-unwanted-e-mail

Hopefully other people find this useful too.

It sounds stupid but I just never thought for a second that Windows Live Mail would so aggressively manage my spam folder, particularly not to constantly move any mail back to the spam after I've flagged it as safe.