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by emanuensis 2237 days ago
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.

2 comments

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”.
He cannot change the filter on an account he has no access to.
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

He cannot fix anything because he can't login to the account.