Using Gmail as a Spam Filter

Friday, Apr. 8 2005 | Author: Scrivs

If you have a Gmail account (and if you don’t, please don’t ask for invites in the comments) then you understand how powerful Gmail’s spam filtering technology is and would probably like to see that technology put to use on your other email accounts. Dylan over at MBoffin.com has figured out a way to setup your gmail account so that it works as a spam filter for your regular domain accounts by forwarding all mail through Gmail before it hits your inbox. Simple to implement.

Another great benefit of the technique that he shows you is that Gmail also acts as a backup account in case you decide to lose all your email on your hard drive. Something that has happened to me before (yes, IMAP is good for this kind of stuff as well).

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8 Responses for "Using Gmail as a Spam Filter"

Chad

April 8th, 2005 at 10:44 am
1

Insane. Not 15 minutes ago I was just sitting at work looking at spam in my copprate exchange account and next to none in the inbox of my gmail account. I was thinking that doing just this sort of thing would work great.

/day late, dollar short I guess…
Scrivs

April 8th, 2005 at 10:48 am
2

Heh, well instead of wasting time trying to figure out how to accomplish that you can just go read the entry and be done with it. I am sure your boss would appreciate it.
Matt H.

April 8th, 2005 at 10:49 am
3

Gmail works
minghong

April 8th, 2005 at 11:42 am
4

Just switch to Thunderbird, which has a very Bayesian nice spam filter.
Chad

April 8th, 2005 at 11:50 am
5

I haven’t tried t-bird yet. I guess I’m part of the problem but I doubt it’ll work with exchange accounts, will it?
Smackfu

April 8th, 2005 at 12:55 pm
6

In my experience, GMail is much better than Thunderbird at stopping Spam.
John

April 8th, 2005 at 1:53 pm
7

Realy? Interesting, I am very

For me Thunderbird is as good at filtering spam as I am at telling it what is and is not spam, in other words it gets better as it goes.

gmail on the other hand used (I think) data from the whole system to build it’s filters, so as long as the vast majority of people agree with you on what is and is not spam, it would in theory work better.

I guess it is about how much you want to “teach” your mail app, that really makes the difference.
John

April 8th, 2005 at 1:55 pm
8

Erg…

That should be “I am very happy with Thunderbird.” sorry…