I won’t say I don’t receive pitches for the occasional mortgage discount or Vegas vacation, the latest performance-enhancing elixir or anatomical wonder pills. Somehow those untidy and still slightly ...

If you feel like Gmail spam has been worse lately, you're not alone. If you feel like Gmail spam has been worse lately, you're not alone. As someone who typically likes a “clean” inbox with few to no ...

If your emails are landing in spam, it’s rarely due to a single mistake. Spam placement is usually the result of small technical gaps adding up, misaligned authentication, weak sending discipline, or ...

The disruption began Saturday (5am Pacific time, Jan .24) affecting approximately 1.8 billion Gmail users worldwide with widespread email misclassification.

Gmail’s reputation for quietly catching junk in the background has taken a hit. Over the past few days, users have watched trusted filters fail, spam pour into primary inboxes, and legitimate messages ...

I've been using Mail's junk filter for a while, but just recently it seems to have gone haywire. It was working quite well, but recently it's become quite poor at guess spam (even if I recieved the ...

Gmail’s spam filter is broken, leading to inboxes flooded with promotional emails and warnings to “be careful.” ...

Anecdotal evidence from Gmail users—including the author of this story—suggests that something changed with Gmail’s spam filter settings in recent weeks, resulting in the email provider letting ...

There's been a recent surge in a method to evade spam filters: disguising text by using the venerable ASCII art method. But so far, spammers are bungling the attempt. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

A group of e-mail marketers on Tuesday set up an Internet forum for people to air grievances about spam filters--which can swallow legitimate messages along with the targeted commercial come-ons. The ...

I got a copy of Office 12 prerelease from a friend (MSDN), just so that I could see what it was. I played around for an hour or so then uninstalled it. When I ran my Outlook 2003 install again, my ...