Re:My account is sending spam emails
by obituary_latte on Sunday April 22, 2018 @08:23AM
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Gmail's sent folder isn't a sent folder in the traditional sense. It's a label that just filters mails based on the "from" address.
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Are you sure about that? I have gotten many spoofed spam emails before but I've never seen them appear in my sent folder before. Furthermore when I search "from:[my email]", I see a different listing than when I look in the sent folder.
Re:My account is sending spam emails
by liquidgecka on Sunday April 22, 2018 @12:01PM
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I have a very short gmail address so I get _loads_ of spam daily. The above is actually correct. Emails from my address, even though they are spoofed will show up in my Sent folder until I mark them as Junk. I just checked with the 3-4 spams I received last night all all where in Sent.
That's a bug.
Does anyone disagree?
It's non-standard, for sure, but it's "by design" and I suppose they can do whatever they want on their own platform. I'll stick with my IMAP4-compliant mail server, though.
I disagree because your sent mail also appears in your inbox and vice versa as part of threads.
It was always like this and I never considered it as bug.