Gmail Spam Issue!

MoodyMand45

I recently made a mistake and entered a Magic Freebies competition using my main email address which has left me being bombed by spam mail.

The spam is automatically filtered into the spam box by gmail which is good but although i know blocking these emails never works i am concerned by the amount of spam stopping my other emails coming through, I have heard gmail allows no more than 2000 emails coming into the account each day but would this apply just to the spam box or across the board.is what i'm wondering.

I know MSE always recommends a separate email account for comping which i should of done in the first place.

CoastingHatbox

Gmail receiving limits, from a source I cannot corroborate:

86400 messages per day
3600 messages per hour
60 messages per minute

Official Google documentation only talks about receive limits in respect of their Google Workspace accounts.

If you are not receiving spam email at these rates, then you probably don't need to worry.

The only other concern, is the amount of storage you have free and whether the deluge of spam is going to mean you are likely to run out. Google allocates 15GB of storage for free accounts, which is shared across Gmail and other Google services. I think you should be able to check this via: https://drive.google.com/settings/storage.

mjm3346

Nothing to stop you switching your "real" e-mails to go to a new address and eventually ditching this one or just using it for possible "Spam" sites