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Craig Hale

Gmail issues saw it go a little haywire and start accusing user inboxes of being spam - here's what we know

A laptop screen on an orange background showing the Gmail logo and an inbox.
  • Gmail spam filtering experienced a glitch on January 24, flooding inboxes with emails and spam warnings
  • Users were experiencing misclassified emails, additional spam warnings and delays
  • The issue has been fixed, but we still don't know what caused it

Google engineers had a busy weekend as they sought to fix an issue with how Gmail messages were being filtered and classified after inboxes went haywire on Saturday January 24.

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