# Check also the spam folder for messages

**URL:** <https://forum.delta.chat/t/check-also-the-spam-folder-for-messages/669>\
**Category:** Feature Proposal\
**Created:** [November 2, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/check-also-the-spam-folder-for-messages/669 "2019-11-02T15:44:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![webratte](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/webratte/32/16_2.png) [@webratte](https://forum.delta.chat/u/webratte)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/check-also-the-spam-folder-for-messages/669/1 "2019-11-02T15:44:35Z")

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I’m not sure about this.

But:  
I have created a gmx account to play around and test newest DC releases.

I realized that some “lost messages” can be found in the spam folder.

If I use a mail account only for DC use, I never will log in to check the spam folder.

What do you think about this problem?

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**Author:** ![Hocuri](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/hocuri/32/25_2.png) [@Hocuri](https://forum.delta.chat/u/Hocuri)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 12:19pm UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/check-also-the-spam-folder-for-messages/669/2 "2019-11-07T12:19:00Z")

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As DC prevents spam by itself (by showing “unapproved” contact’s mails only as “contact requests”), I think that we should do this!

Maybe we could show a warning if the user wants to accept a contact request that landed in the spam folder (like, “this message was recognized as spam. Are you sure you still want to start a chat?”)

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**Author:** ![Simon](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/simon/32/287_2.png) [@Simon](https://forum.delta.chat/u/Simon)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/check-also-the-spam-folder-for-messages/669/3 "2019-11-07T14:56:51Z")

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> [@Hocuri](#):
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> Maybe we could show a warning

and we can visually use another color for such messages

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**Author:** ![webratte](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/webratte/32/16_2.png) [@webratte](https://forum.delta.chat/u/webratte)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/check-also-the-spam-folder-for-messages/669/4 "2019-11-07T15:29:07Z")

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In my case it was messages which a part of a current chat.  
So there was missing messages in this chat.

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**Author:** ![webratte](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/webratte/32/16_2.png) [@webratte](https://forum.delta.chat/u/webratte)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 6:54am UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/check-also-the-spam-folder-for-messages/669/6 "2019-11-13T06:54:29Z")

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This is more important then I thought.

Probably a system message is landed in spam.  
I removed a member from a group.

But one of the other group members never received this “remove member message”. I believe this message is landed in spam.

So in his “group member list” the removed member still exist.  
Every message he send will also reach the removed member.

IMHO it’s a privacy disaster.

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**Author:** ![r10s](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/r10s/32/1513_2.png) [@r10s](https://forum.delta.chat/u/r10s)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/check-also-the-spam-folder-for-messages/669/7 "2026-10-06T15:00:11Z")

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