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Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by emanuensis on Sunday May 03, 2020 @10:29AM (#23059196)
NB forwarding does NOT include "spam" email... i have all my Gmail accounts funnel into one and i check the spam buckets of all, every 4 weeks (otherwise Google turfs em). i usually find a few (rather important) false positives in that monthly sweep.

Further note that gMail filters at every step, eg this includes a downstream "archive" account. So there are false positives coming from a "known" [single source] good account and of already vetted emails...

i do wish there was a way to forward everything ... where everything meant everything ... filtering optional.

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Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by lukebyear on Sunday May 03, 2020 @10:43AM (#23059282)
You can do this by setting up a filter that matches all messages that don’t contain something like “thisrandomstringwillneveroccurinthewild”. You can have the filter forward the message AND day “never send to spam”.
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Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by koheripbal on Monday May 04, 2020 @09:43AM (#23067931)
He cannot change the filter on an account he has no access to.
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Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by pR0Ps on Sunday May 03, 2020 @12:48PM (#23060145)
You can fix this by adding a filter called "is:spam" that has the "never send to spam" option checked.

See https://cmetcalfe.ca/blog/forwarding-spam-with-gmail.html

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Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by koheripbal on Monday May 04, 2020 @09:07AM (#23067534)
He cannot fix anything because he can't login to the account.
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