[Gmail-Users] Re: missing emails

On 12/27/05, Dora Smith <villandra@gmail.com> wrote:

Not in my account.   I am using Mozilla; it has on the left side under
Local Folders, Inbox, and then all your various folders.   Unsent
Messages, Drafts, Sent, Trash, and 30 or so I created.   No Spam box.
I have an idea there isn't one becuase I haven't set up my account to do
something different with spam, but I had to check.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
villandra@austin.rr.com

Dora,

Are you using the GMail web interface with the Mozilla browser, or are you downloading your mail with the Mozilla MUA?  If you are using the Mozilla MUA, then go onto the browser, go to http://www.gmail.com , log in and on the left you will see the links "Inbox", "Starred", "Sent Mail", "Drafts", "All Mail" and "Spam".  Click on "Spam" and you get the messages that have been marked by GMail as Spam.

However, I think that (once again) Hex Star didn't actually read the original post through, and so thought that you were missing emails that had been sent to you instead of the reality (correct me if I'm wrong) that you are sending emails which aren't getting through.

As Gerard said, email sent by GMail is having trouble because GMail chooses not to put the user's IP address in the mail, but puts its own there instead.  Certain IP address based spam blockers and blacklisting services then assume that (based on some spam sent from GMail accounts) all email sent from that IP address (GMail's IP address) is spam, and therefore blocks it.

Slightly simplified, but it will do.  Anyway, because of this, some emails sent from GMail accounts are being blocked.  This is partly Google's fault, in that they are not putting the user's IP address as they should do.

HTH,
James
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