


This should mean it doesn’t download to your system, if you use IMAP.

We’d like it to “skip inbox” and to “delete”, tick both, then click “create filter” (note you may also wish to select this to apply to conversations already matching this, as in my example, below):ĭONE! This will filter out all of your spam and automatically put it into the bin as it is received. Step 6) Next, you need to tell Gmail what to do with these spam emails. You are happy to continue, so click “OK”. Step 5) Doing this will trigger a warning message. Step 4) Click on “Create a new Filter”, and under the part where it says “Has the words” enter the following text “ is:spam” and then click “create filter with this search”: Step 3) Click on the “Filters” tab (pictured below) Get Google’s Google Workspace for your Business Here – fully managed or 20% off. Step 2) Click “Settings” in the top right (Click the Cog symbol at the top right, then “Settings” from the dropdown – picture below) Step 1) Login to your Gmail in Webmail – at How to Automatically Delete Spam Email from Gmail It’s not necessarily a good idea to do this, unless you are confident that you’ll only receive spam in your spam folder. Remember that this may include email you actually wanted to receive. WARNING using these rules will automatically delete everything in your Gmail spam folder before you look at it. The steps below describe how to do just that. In particular, if you use an email client, via IMAP, and you like to use your own junk filter on email on your system, it can sometimes make sense to clear spam from your Gmail automatically. If you use Gmail – or Google Workspace (formerly Google Apps) – based email, you might find, over time, you start to collect a lot of spam in your “Spam” (junk) folder.
