There’s nothing more annoying than important emails ending up in your spam folder. Spam filters can be unpredictable meaning that this can happen all too frequently.
One way to stop particular emails from landing in your spam folder is to ensure the email address from the particular sendee is added to your CONTACTS. But sometimes that\’s not enough, especially with email delivery of alerts coming from a website service.
With Gmail, you can prevent this from happening by adding EMAIL FILTERS. This will help you to explicitly make a sender, or even with the use of keywords, to put filtered emails to your INBOX.
How to set Gmail Spam Filter:
- Log in to your Gmail account.
- Click the GEAR icon at the top right and then click SETTINGS.
- Go to FILTERS AND BLOCKED ADDRESSES and click CREATE A NEW FILTER.
- In the FROM section, type the email address of the sender that you want to keep out of your Spam Folder.
- Click CREATE FILTER.
- Check NEVER SEND IT TO SPAM and ALSO APPLY FILTER TO MATCHING MESSAGES boxes.
- Click CREATE FILTER again.
Start by logging in to your GMAIL account > click the GEAR icon at the top right > then SETTINGS.
On the SETTINGS page, go to the FILTERS AND BLOCKED ADDRESSES tab then click CREATE A NEW FILTER.
Now, let\’s force GMAIL to not mark emails coming from stuart@creativesprout.co.uk as SPAM.
Let’s create a filter by setting stuart@creativesprout.co.uk in the FROM field then proceed by clicking the CREATE FILTER link.
Setup your filter upon your discretion but make sure to tick both the NEVER SEND IT TO SPAM and ALSO APPLY FILTER TO MATCHING MESSAGES checkboxes. Click the CREATE FILTER button once you\’re done.
Result:
Related article from Gmail: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6579
Now that you have created a filter, what should you do to apply this to a specific label that you defined in Gmail, so that you can view all the filtered emails together? Please refer to our blog post to learn how to label emails in Gmail.
This should filter ALL emails coming from stuart@creativesprout to your INBOX and never to your SPAM folder.
