You slept with GMail Team's wife? - Matthew DeVries

Everyday I get numerous messages from Google's "Gmail Team" about messages left on server. I don't want them. These are spam to me. It is a pain to have to delete them all every single day. How can I stop them from showing up in my email box? I can't seem to find a setting in gmail to deal with these unwanted intrusions into my life. Why can't I opt out of this barrage of harassment like I can unsubscribe to other legitimate junk emails I get? I can't even reply back to this spam because the email goes to noreply at google. - Thomas Hawk

Stop using gmail, would be my first suggestion. It isn't reliable; convenient to have and use under certainty circumstances for sure, but not really reliable. I certainly wouldn't count on it for important business use (but I'm sure you're not doing that anyway). - Kittyburgers

o.O Show me a single company's email service with a better up time than gmail. I know my corporate email system has been down more in the last month than gmail has in the last decade. - Matthew DeVries

I'm sure there are numerous services around the world that are more reliable. My ISP's mail servers, for example, are more reliable. There are lots of systems in place around the globe. - Kittyburgers from IM

Furthermore how can we "BLOCK" them from sending us any more spammy messages? I hope to see them work on this annoying problem. Its getting way out of hand alright. At least if we're able to block them it won't show up in my direct messages but get kept somewhere else where it's out of my view. - Jeunelle Foster

to g or not to g - VAL D. Zone

actually I really love gmail and I really appreciate all of the spam that they do filter out of my life. I just wish that they would allow me to opt out of these damn left on server messages. Does anyone know if there is a way I can get Apple's email system to somehow automatically dump anything from the "gmail team" to the garbage bin or somehow to convince Apple's own spam system that this is spam. I've tried to train apple's email reader that this is spam by marking it spam but they still keep coming. - Thomas Hawk

I would think that of all people, the gmail team would be sympathetic to this problem. - Thomas Hawk

Thomas, why don't you just build a filter? - Matthew DeVries

Is it really from the Gmail team or spoofed emails? - imabonehead

How do you know it's the Gmail Team? It could just be spam spoofing as coming from the Gmail team. - Itachi

Maxamad, I'd be surprised if this is the case. In general gmail does an *amazing* job at killing all of my spam. I might get 2 or 3 spam messages a week out of thousands probably that I would get otherwise. If this many spam messages are now getting through with spoofed sending all from the gmail team than that's just as big a problem for the gmail team to be aware of. I think that these are in fact actually from google though. - Thomas Hawk

Perhaps you're actually part of the Gmail team and you forgot about it? :P - imabonehead

Good point, but if I'm part of the gmail team now I've somehow missed the paychecks. ;) - Thomas Hawk

Why would the gmail team send you anything related to your facebook password. Did Google buy facebook when we weren't looking and integrate it into gmail?? - April Russo (app103)

Just mark it all as spam and setup filters to send it to spam automatically. - Itachi

April, I think they are sending me a notification that someone else's facebook spam contained a dangerous link so they didn't forward it on to me. It's these notifications that I'd like to somehow stop. Maxamad, I've marked them as spam in Apple's mail program dozens of time. They don't go to spam. I'm not sure how to set up a filter with my apple mail client to automatically route this to the garbage. - Thomas Hawk

Oh, I meant filters in Gmail...I'm not sure how they work with Apple's mail since I don't use IMAP - Itachi

Create filters in the gmail web interface. The tags you create in gmail will be seen as folders in Mail.app. Just make the filters in the web interface, and Mail.app will behave the way you want automatically. - Jason Wehmhoener

Ahhh, in the gmail interface, I hadn't thought about that. Thanks Maxamad and Jason. I just created a filter to apply to anything from "Gmail Team". These are now all deleted. We'll see if this fixes my problem in my Apple mail inbox. Appreciate the advice. - Thomas Hawk

You can create filters in Mail.app too; they might be called "rules" but anyway you can access them through file>preferences IIRC. (I get gmail through Mail.app and have never had this problem at all but maybe that's only because I download everything to start with.) - Deborah Fitchett

I think all the emails that GMail flags like this have something resembling a virus attached. Since a virus can often be attached to email from someone you care about they don't just want to move them to spam since you might want to actually get that email, without the virus, or tell someone you know they have a virus. If they aren't from people you know then a filter is one solution though it may delete email from someone you care about too. - Ed Millard

Kittyburgers, Its a matter of opinion and YMMV but GMail has certainly been more reliable and better at combating spam than any other email provider I've had, including corp. Paul B. did an awesome job in his previous life. GMail POP support alone is a winner. You might not want to use it for business purposes because of "free email" stigma, though Google has a free service to use your domain name. You can claim privacy but unless you are encrypting your email any ISP on either end might be reading it. - Ed Millard

Kittyburgers, we use gmail for our corporate email and I can definitely say we will *never* go back to internal email! As for privacy, there is no system that is totally private, ISPs or internal mail. - Travis Koger from iPhone