How often do you check your Spam Folder?

[Orchid]

MalwareTips Community.

Recently, some of my friends contacted me saying they never received my e-mail when I had sent the e-mail a week prior or longer. Some responses I would give are:

• Do you want me to send the e-mail again?
• Did you check the Spam Folder?

The reply would always be: my e-mail landed in the Spam Folder. I finally came to realize not many people check their Spam Folder nowadays. When I see my family get e-mails in their Spam Folder, they don't even look at them, disregarding if any important e-mail is stored there. On the other hand, I look at my Spam Folder and see what e-mail I received before I delete the message. So now I ask you. How often do you check your Spam Folder?

 

[Ink]

Voted Sometimes - only if I'm expecting an email from a new address.

 

[Zero Knowledge]

Always, sometimes you miss a legit email if it's from a rare email address. But it's marketing 99% of the time though that gets tagged as a spam. No biggie!

 

[bellgamin]

I check my Trash folder everyday. I have set-up Spam Assassin with a whitelist so that ALL email not whitelisted goes to Trash. Because I have several teaching websites, I receive 200 or more emails daily. Thus, I often get emails that are not on my whitelist. Scanning the Trash box for valid emails is easy to do because my email app is PopPeeper.

BTW -- here in Hawaii, canned Spam (Spiced Ham) is a very popular food. My family loves spam musubi for snacks. We also enjoy spam and eggs for breakfast. Spam with hotcakes is to die for!

 

[Orchid]

I check my Trash folder everyday. I have set-up Spam Assassin with a whitelist so that ALL email not whitelisted goes to Trash. Because I have several teaching websites, I receive 200 or more emails daily. Thus, I often get emails that are not on my whitelist. Scanning the Trash box for valid emails is easy to do because my email app is PopPeeper.

I think you mean the Spam Folder.

 

[bellgamin]

I think you mean the Spam Folder.

I named it Trash Account on my server.

I configured Spam Assassin with a whitelist filter instead of the usual blacklist filter. VoodooShield, anti-exe apps, & firewalls use whitelisting to block malware. So I use whitelisting to block trash mail.

To wit, Assassin filters mail from whitelisted senders so that it goes to my primary email accounts. It dumps the left-overs into the Trash. Works great for me

 

[roger_m]

I check it whenever it isn't empty, as sometimes non spam emails go to there, rather than the Inbox. If any legitimate emails reach my spam folder, even if they're emails I don't want, I report them as not being spam, so that in time such emails will go straight to my Inbox. Whenever spam email reaches my Inbox, I report it as spam rather than deleting it from my Inbox.

 

[Bumblebee Uncle]

Check it once a week since a lot of legit emails do end up there.

 

[Trident]

Check it once a week since a lot of legit emails do end up there.

Specially on iOS/MacOS mail apps…
I have to check mine every 2-3 days unfortunately… too many legit emails go there.

 

[Digmor Crusher]

About once a week, some of the emails I get in there are comedy gold, especially the ones from my friends in Africa.

 

[Ink]

Specially on iOS/MacOS mail apps…
I have to check mine every 2-3 days unfortunately… too many legit emails go there.

Does the Apple Mail app offer many options for filtering / customisation?

 

[Trident]

Does the Apple Mail app offer many options for filtering / customisation?

On iOS it doesn’t offer any.
It applies filtering automatically and is a bit too aggressive sometimes.

On Mac OS it offers the following:

Spoiler: Settings

Report and reduce spam in iCloud Mail – Apple Support (UK)

Find out how iCloud Mail filters out unwanted bulk email messages, also known as junk mail or spam, and how to delete and minimise junk mail.

support.apple.com

Over time as you mark as junk/not junk it learns quickly.

 

[blackice]

Only if I’m waiting for an email and it doesn’t show up.

 

[Alexhousek]

Pretty much anytime I see emails in the spam/junk folder.

 

[TairikuOkami]

Sometimes. I use only outlook for important emails and it can mark senders as trusted to avoid spam.
But I forward other less relevant services via other email providers, so I check them out here and then.

 

[simmerskool]

my email client shows a count of new email in spam, and when I see notification, I check spam folder, typical delete junk email and move good email into inbox box or saved email.