Everyone seems to love Google’s Gmail and it has been hailed as one of the best free web-mail services by many tech people. It can considered as one of the most secure email service that is free which allows you to enable 2-step verification to prevent from your Gmail account from being hacked. I personally love to use Gmail because it supports POP3 and IMAP for free and the email space available has grown up to a huge 10GB!

I’ve configured my email client The Bat to download Gmail inbox emails ever since I registered for a Gmail account. Many times I signed up in forums, social networking sites etc but never received any welcome emails to active my account. One day, just out of curiosity, I logged in to Gmail.com to check my emails and saw a huge amount of spams in the Spam folder.

I was quite surprised to find so many legitimate emails being identified as spam which were automatically moved straight into spam folder. The problem with using regular or portable email clients to download POP3 emails from Gmail is they don’t download emails from the spam folder. I logged in to Gmail again and tried to look for any spam settings but couldn’t find any. It looks like Gmail doesn’t allow us to configure the sensitivity of their spam filter.

After many months of testing, my Gmail spam filter is now perfect because it is possible to train Gmail spam filter.
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Email is the most common method used to communicate on the Internet and is still widely being used today. One of the most annoying problems that a user can face when using their email is the received email shows that it arrived with incorrect date or time.

Emails are normally sorted by the received date & time for you to easily view the latest new emails as they are shown at the top of the list. You would most likely miss an email that is dated earlier since it’s automatically moved down the list, while an email dated later would cause it to constantly appear at the top of the list.

Hence, making sure that the emails you receive have a correct time stamp is very important. Many years ago you’d need to identify if you’re experiencing this problem in webmail or email client software because both use a timestamp from different sources. Webmail would get it from your online account settings while the email client software would read it from your operating system clock. Things have certainly changed today with most (but not all) webmail services able to use the date and time setting from Windows.

If you are receiving emails that are few hours ahead or behind, here is how to fix it.
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