Learn to manage your spam folder, rescue important emails that don't belong there and filter incoming junk out of your primary email inbox.

Check the Spam, Junk and Trash folders to determine if your spam filter is moving email designated as spam to the correct areas.

Spam is here to stay and legit messages will continue getting snagged in the traps, so set a weekly reminder to check that spam filter to rescue those lost messages! Got a tech question?

Go ahead and check your Gmail spam filter, then let me know: Did you find any false positives? If so, how many? Contributing Editor Rick Broida writes about business and consumer technology.

It also gives you tips on how to de-spam-ize your email to get a lower spam score and hence give your email a greater likelihood of going through.

Google's Gmail filtered 85 legitimate emails from my Inbox to my Spam filter in the last 30 days. It turns out I'm not alone.

5 Rules: How to Avoid a Spam Filter Does your role involve emailing people you don’t know? Make sure you’re not landing in the junkmail box.