Using Gmail to fight SPAM

The Problem


Spam is nothing but unsolicited mails being send to your inbox daily claiming to clear your depts or promising more hair on your scalp or blah blah blah..........


The Remedy

Although a lot of tools are available in the market for finghting this modern age plague of the mailing system like SpamAssassin and MailWasher but my personal favourite is Gmail and following are the reason's for it.


1. Gmail has a powerful spam filter that does a great job filtering out junk( for me it works to the extent of 99..99%)

2 It's FREE


The Trick

Google's free web based Gmail is both an e-mail client and e-mail host .Use gmail e-mail client feature to fetch mail from your another e-mail account so it will have to pass through Gmail's spam filter and hence your life will be much better with less spam.


Lock n Load

Here's a quick insight into the process.

Say i have an e-mail account as bogus@mydomain.com that get's bombard with spam now i will configure my gmail as a pop client for this account fetching mail from it and appling it's powerful spam filter on it hence getting rid of spam to a great extent.


1 . Create a Gmail account ( no problem if you already have one.....lolz)

2 Click on Gmail's settings and open Accounts Tab

3 Select Add another Gmail Account and after verification of your mail account (bogus@mydomain.com in my case) Gmail will start fetching messges from the account ) At this point Gmail Automatically Scan's for spam when it retrieves mail from the alternate account.

4 Now if you do not want the browser-based Gmail as your primary address co configure outlook or thunderbird to receive mail's from your Gmail account.



Now the only change you will notice is that now your mail is less spammy besides this there will be no other visible involvement of google.
Also if accidently some of your important mail have been marked as Spam then they can always be reterieved from the Spam folder.