Keeping My Messages out of the Gmail Spamtrap

This is intemnded primarily for readers who have gmail addresses, or who have friends with such addresses

Sometime last year there was a change to gmail's rules for spam, and since then many of the messages I have sent to gmail accounts have been classed as spam. Some alert corresponents have still detected them, but others have not. Once messages have lain in the spam folder for a month gmail deletes them.

I have investigated and have found how to prevent this happening

Open gmail. There are four buttons in the top right corner of the screen. The button that looks like a cogwheel leads to the settings menu.

Press it, then press the button to show all settings.

At the top of the settings menu are a string of options. select "Filters and blocked addresses"

click on 'create a new filter'

Enter the email address you wish to protect

Tick the box to exclude messages from the spam folder, click 'create filter'

All should be well thereafter.

Putting an email address in your contacts list may also work, though I haven't tried that. For extra security you could do that as well.