From the beginning Gmail has had a very good spam filter. Now Google added a nice new feature explaining why a mail lands in the Spam filter.

So starting today, we’ll be showing a brief explanation at the top of each of your spam messages. Simply look at any message in your spam folder and now you can find out why it was put there and learn about any potentially harmful content within the message.

But does anyone except me still look into the Spam filter to check the messages that the mail client thinks are spam but aren't?

Via Tidbits I found a story where James Fallows from The Atlantic

describes how his wife's Email Account was hacked

what they went through to recover years of stored messages. It’s a compelling tale that will hopefully bring home the need for secure passwords and offline backups of cloud-based data.