The thing I love about Gmail is that it’s always improving. Today I logged into my Gmail account and saw that there was a “New Features!” link posted at the top right corner. Apparently, Google has gotten so good at combating spam that they’ve begun the process of eliminating the spam folder altogether. And sure enough, when I checked my folder list on the left side in Gmail, my spam folder was gone!
Like all Gmail improvements, Google says that this “feature” (or lack thereof) will slowly make its way into all accounts over time, so if you don’t see it in your Gmail yet, just wait a few days and it’ll probably be there.
Anyway, just a side thought: Gmail is only 4 years old (it launched on April 1, 2004) and in those 4 short years, they’ve managed to set the bar for just about all web-based email. They were the first to increase web-based storage of email [for free] to 1GB (on April 1, 2005, just one year after they launched, they decided to incrementally give space away for free) and amazingly, now they are essentially getting rid of spam! What next?
April Fools….
I logged into mine this morning- RI time and it has a different new feature!
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html
RE: Molly
the custom time thing is an April Fools joke by google. the removal of the spam folder is not.
sending email from the future!
Is this post a joke? The spam folder is still there if you go to settings–labels and click show instead of hide spam folder. They’ve simply set the default to hide the spam and trash folders.
bless you my son Bob. i so need that spam folder shown (so i can find stuff gmail thinks is spam, but ain’t) and all my other labels google decided to ‘hide’ w/o asking me. air five good buddy.
That is a HORRIBLE feature!
Not all mail detected as spam, is spam.
It’s retarded that they are hiding it, because most people will never find it.
Sometimes you sign up for something online, and those kind of activation mails are often detected as spam, and now you won’t get the mail, when using gmail.
I am getting tired of google. It seems like the only thing they could do right was GOOGLE!