WEM'S? Are they obvious??

Annaeliz

Fab post! I have just set up a filter to notify me of any possible winners emails...never even realised you could do that lol!:T

GeorgeBee

Quite often they'll Congratulations or Winner in the title. Sometimes they'll have the title of the competition in the title i.e 'Spring Wardrobe Competition' or just have the prize in the title i.e 'Magix'.

Quite often though they are from a person i.e. Emma Smith as opposed to just saying from 'Next' or from 'BHS'.

MsBooty

Thank you all for this thread, I too had noticed that a few of my emails had been filtered by gmail before being downloaded to outlook so I had stuff in a spam folder that I never knew about, thankfully no WEMs.

Does anyone use gmail and if so, can you tell me if you put your filter words ie winner, won, congratulations etc in the "Has the words" or "Subject".

I have also chose to star it and never send to spam - have I missed anything?

Livewire

MsBooty wrote: »

Thank you all for this thread, I too had noticed that a few of my emails had been filtered by gmail before being downloaded to outlook so I had stuff in a spam folder that I never knew about, thankfully no WEMs.

Does anyone use gmail and if so, can you tell me if you put your filter words ie winner, won, congratulations etc in the "Has the words" or "Subject".

I have also chose to star it and never send to spam - have I missed anything?

Hey MsBooty,

I use Gmail - but don't have outlook so use gmail only. I have set my filters to 'has the words' and set them so that more is less. I have one filter that has 'won' another has 'winner' another has 'congratulations' and so on.. i personally keep everything to go to my inbox but have set those filters to be 'starred' so I notice those emails more.. and if i check my emails and have like 60 emails in my inbox i can just go straight to my 'starred inbox' which is located just below the main inbox i think, on the left hand list (inbox/sent/bin etc) and can sort through those emails first..

Hope that makes sense!

MsBooty

Livewire wrote: »

Hey MsBooty,

I use Gmail - but don't have outlook so use gmail only. I have set my filters to 'has the words' and set them so that more is less. I have one filter that has 'won' another has 'winner' another has 'congratulations' and so on.. i personally keep everything to go to my inbox but have set those filters to be 'starred' so I notice those emails more.. and if i check my emails and have like 60 emails in my inbox i can just go straight to my 'starred inbox' which is located just below the main inbox i think, on the left hand list (inbox/sent/bin etc) and can sort through those emails first..

Hope that makes sense!

thanks livewire. It sounds like your settings are virtually the same as mine apart from you have 3 separate filters as opposed to my one. I think I may change mine as thinking about it, it may only filter them if it has all 3 of the words I have suggested. Off to change now, thanks

Livewire

MsBooty wrote: »

thanks livewire. It sounds like your settings are virtually the same as mine apart from you have 3 separate filters as opposed to my one. I think I may change mine as thinking about it, it may only filter them if it has all 3 of the words I have suggested. Off to change now, thanks

No Probs!! Hope it helps.. It's not 100% foolproof but it generally helps.. I picked up the tip off another MSE'r on here a couple of months ago and found it pretty useful..thanks to them whoever they are!

MsBooty

Livewire wrote: »

No Probs!! Hope it helps.. It's not 100% foolproof but it generally helps.. I picked up the tip off another MSE'r on here a couple of months ago and found it pretty useful..thanks to them whoever they are!

anything has to be better than what I have at the mo, I come home to hundreds of emails daily, spend hours going through them checking that I am only deleting newsletters but there is always the fear that I may be deleting a win. Fingers x'd now. Thank you and thank all that have posted info on this subject:)