[It's Magic]

I occasionally check the spam folder, as there have been instances when I found some useful emails there.

In our office, the email automation system tracks the emails I ignore and adds them to the spam list. Additionally, whenever a new sender is added to the spam list, I receive a notification to check and confirm if it’s really spam. I find this feature useful, and I believe Google could implement something similar for Gmail.

[thanixravindran]

I daily check the spam folder and empty it. I may have OCD as I am obsessed in keeping my mail box clean - both Outlook and Gmail. No unread mails when I close the day. I empty the bin also often.

It is more to do with the satisfaction of seeing the empty spam and bin folders rather than finding genuine mails there.

On the topic of genuine mails in spam folder, I see mostly promotional mails from Skoda India landing up there

[binand]

Originally Posted by GTO

Gmail has fantastic spam filtering and it does weed out 99% of the email spam from hitting my inbox. Unfortunately, once in a blue moon, a genuine email or two also ends up in there. [...] How do you handle it?

Gmail retains spam for 30 days, so I have a recurring reminder to check the folder every 3 weeks. I set this up after I suffered a financial loss due to a genuine email being marked as spam.

I am very aggressive in marking promotional emails that end up in my Inbox as "this is spam". If it is from an agency I have not had any interaction with, then I do this immediately. If this is from someone I have interacted with - I do the "Unsubscribe" loop the first time and start marking it as spam second time onwards.

[JunkyardHunter]

The only reason I check my emails at all is for those "please confirm your email" prompts. Otherwise, I have a "if there's anything, lt it be there" mindset towards Gmail.

Regarding spam, Gmail does a terrible job of putting spam in the spam folder. Since I'm too lazy to put it to the recycle bin, the actual messages get lost in a sea of target marketing in my inbox.

[Zippy_wheels]

As soon as I opened this thread, I realized I had not checked the spam folder recently, so went ahead and did that before reading the rest of the article.

I average about once a month, when it comes to checking the spam folder, because gmail deletes it in 30 days. Occasionally, I do find some email, that should not have been a spam, but it is very rare. In fact, most of it is borderline spam anyways. There is such an infux of spam these days - even with this spam filter, that the inbox would have been useless without this.

Google, for all the negativity it gets, is one company that does its work efficiently and is minimalistic in its presentation. I still feel google search is the best website out there - so clean, simple and elegant.

[stantheman]

I have to check my spam folder regularly. I am heading partnerships and lots of emails from new people at partner companies get filtered as spam. And yes unfortunately we use Gmail for business. And this was not so much of a problem earlier when we were on Zoho. It was much better at not sending genuine emails to speak then Google.

[NirmalK]

I check my Spam folder once a week to make sure I am not missing out on any important email.

[Rahkehs]

Appointment letter from my current organisation (a govt. company) went into gmail’s spam folder and I came to know about my selection when a person from HR called to confirm whether I wanted to join or not!

[drive2eternity]

I have made it a habit to never check the Spam folder for my Gmail.

It has been months for sure. If I am expecting an email and it doesn't show up, I do check in spam but that's about it. Else I never visit the spam folder.

[vb-saan]

My primary email is outlook (Office 365) and not Gmail, and Outlook is pretty good with weeding out unwanted emails. But I do check my spam/junk folder every now and then, and empty it off.

[Cresterk]

Only when I'm procrastinating doing actual work.

[GhostGrid]

I do often check my Gmail's spam folder and instantly remove all the junk right away. I hardly find any genuine emails in the spam folder; as mentioned by GTO, Gmail filtering is pretty much on point, and the same with AOL. However, with Yahoo, the situation is completely different, most of the genuine emails I can locate are in the spam folder, which is weird.

Originally Posted by thanixravindran

I daily check the spam folder and empty it. I may have OCD as I am obsessed in keeping my mail box clean

I also suffer from the same OCD.

[bravo82in]

I seldom check my spam folder unless I'm expecting a missing email. After going through this thread, I did glance at my spam folder, but still found nothing significant.

[drive.helios]

This is one of my biggest OCDs. I check my gmail everyday to the extend I check my spam, clear it and before I do if I see emails of same pattern from the same aggregation, I go and use the unsubscribe button. The amount of spams I get has considerably reduced I feel. I also don't like a lot of unwanted emails in my inbox, I have filtering rules and then I go and delete everything else. The last time an email landed in my spam was when I had to get my UAE Visa from an agent last year.

[sukhbirST]

I always check my spam folder but to reduce clutter, occasionally, I try to block frequent useless mails or unsubscribe many repeaters. The spam folder then looks small if seen daily.