Leveraging Google Mail’s Spam Filter

I’ve noticed that my Google Mail account has been doing a great job of filtering spam mail, nabbing e-mail that SpamAssassin hasn’t been able to tag so I figured I might just use Google Mail as the filtering engine for all my mail. What I have done is forward all my e-mail addresses and aliases (of which I have roughly 20) to Google Mail. From there, I would just have Google Mail forward all the e-mail it receives into an e-mail box that I’ve set up specifically for this purpose.

So far, so good. I normally get roughly 80-100 pieces of spam mail per day. Today: zero. Google Mail filters all the spam before it actually gets forwarded to my destination box. Now I just use IMAP on the destination e-mail account to access my e-mail from Thunderbird and my phone.

Furthermore, I have a copy of my mail in Google Mail, so I can now easily search all of my e-mail from my phone using Mobile Google Mail. Simply beautiful.