

You’re not technically turning “off” spam checking in Gmail, because there is no real way to turn it off. To finish off, I have to say this entire thing is a bit of a cheat. A quick log in once a month or so will take care of that. I’ll still have to check into the older accounts once in awhile, so they don’t get deactivated due to disuse, but that isn’t a problem. That way I can have my primary Gmail account handle all spam filtering, and I only have one place to look instead of three. With the Spam filter in place as shown above, this has the end result of forwarding EVERYTHING from the two older accounts to the newer one. Then in my two older Gmail accounts, I have both of them set up to forward incoming mail to my primary Gmail account, and then delete it off the older Gmail accounts. When you’re done, you should have a filter that looks like this:

Plus it was just annoying to look through their spam. This happened from time to time when I went to recover an older password somewhere that used one of these two older Gmail accounts. So I’d occasionally have to check in there to check the spam filters to make sure nothing was lost there. However, the two older accounts were still doing spam checking.
I had the filters set up to forward all my mail to my primary Gmail account. I use mostly my current Gmail account, but the two older ones I don’t want to surrender the account names. I have several email accounts, two of them are older, but they’re account names I don’t want to give up. Here’s how I did it: Background – Why am I doing this?Ī little background first. I knew a way out, and it’s a trick I discovered a few months back on Gmail, and that’s to turn off the Spam check. When I told them about this, they well, I’m not sure they knew what to say about it. They didn’t know that, and I didn’t discover it until my time working with them on this particular project. Recently in some work I did for a web client, I discovered that essential emails that were needed for work were getting sent to spam.
