The mail you want, not the spam you don't

Posted by Sri Harsha Somanchi, Product Manager (Cross-posted on the Google Gmail Blog .) The Gmail team is always working hard to make sure that every message you care about arrives in your inbox, and all the spam you don't want remains out of sight. In fact, less than 0.1% of email in the average Gmail inbox is spam, and the amount of wanted mail landing in the spam folder is even lower, at under 0.05%. Even still, Gmail spam detection isn't perfect....