Date: 10/1/25 6:52 am From: Jennifer Pederson <jenniferpederson631...> Subject: Re: continuing problems with messages going to spam
Terrell's steps below worked perfectly on my gmail account. I also like the
blue and white labels. No more mobirds spam!
Thank you Terrell!
Jennifer Pederson
Kearney, MO
On Fri, Sep 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM William Terrell Stamps <stampst...>
wrote:
> This is a work-around that has worked for me if using Gmail:
>
> (1) Click on any email message from MOBIRDS to open it (Doesn't have to be
> one of the "spam" emails)
> (2) from the list of icons above the email, click on the 3 vertical dots
> (3) Select "Filter messages like these"
> (4) Delete whatever email is in the "From" section and leave it blank <--
> THIS STEP IS IMPORTANT!
> (5) In the "Has the words" section, add <MOBIRDS-L...>
> (6) Click on the "create filter" button
> (7) on the next page, select "Never send it to spam"
> (8) also select the last box- "Apply filter to "x" matching conversations.
> The number "x" will vary depending on how many messages you have from
> MOBIRDS
> (9) I also suggest selecting "Apply a label" and creating a "MOBIRDS"
> label so that all future MOBIRDS emails will be automatically labeled as
> such
> (10) When back in your inbox, look at your list of labels on the left-hand
> side of the screen, click the 3 dots by the MOBIRDS label and select a
> bright color (I use white text on a blue background). This makes it easy to
> spot all the MOBIRDS emails.
>
> Make sure you do #4 above when setting this up
>
> It is an inelegant solution, but seems to work, and you will still get
> annoying grey box messages because Gmail really, really wants to send these
> emails to spam. The message states: "This message was not sent to spam
> because of a filter you created" and gives you the opportunity to click on
> a "Report not spam" button (which, unfortunately, you will have to do for
> every individual person's email that Gmail considers spam). But the emails
> will remain in your inbox, not the spam folder.
>
> The reason this works is that while the email messages are technically
> coming from a person's individual email address, they are actually routed
> through the listserve, so creating filters that have the person's email in
> the "From" section only applies to that particular person. The
> <MOBIRDS-L...> is always somewhere in the emails, so the
> filter catches everything. This filter will also catch any email that has
> the listserve address in it even if it doesn't come from MOBIRDS, but I
> think that would be rare.
>
> Terrell
>
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