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| What follows are some **outdated** instructions on how to tell Google to also forward spam - many people requested this, to avoid having to check the gmail spam folder, but changes made to the UMN mail service during January 2016 causes issues with this approach - namely that any forwarded spam which is then rejected by the physics system causes the umn system to send //you// a delivery failure message. We regard this as a poor configuration choice by umn, but are unable to change the behavior. | What follows are some **outdated** instructions on how to tell Google to also forward spam - many people requested this, to avoid having to check the gmail spam folder, but changes made to the UMN mail service during January 2016 causes issues with this approach - namely that any forwarded spam which is then rejected by the physics system causes the umn system to send //you// a delivery failure message. We regard this as a poor configuration choice by umn, but are unable to change the behavior. | ||
| - | We now recommend **not to forward spam** from gmail, and instead periodically check your gmail spam folder to make sure nothing is incorrectly categorized. | + | We now recommend **not to forward spam** from gmail, and instead periodically check your gmail spam folder to make sure nothing is incorrectly categorized. |
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| Next, you can optionally set up so that gmail does not put anything into the Spam Folder, and instead forwards on " | Next, you can optionally set up so that gmail does not put anything into the Spam Folder, and instead forwards on " | ||
| - | This is only useful if you don't want to trust gmail' | + | This is only useful if you don't want to trust gmail' |
| - First, go into your gmail settings. | - First, go into your gmail settings. | ||