Alexey Solofnenko blog

My primary GMail account gets very little SPAM and 99% of it is caught. I guess the spammers know that it does not make sense to spam it. So I decided to make an experiment and forwarded all my home emails to an another GMail account. At first GMail decided that most of newsletters I get is a spam (I guess many people are marking them as such instead of unsubscribing), but after writing few filters with disabled SPAM checks the things worked well. Google keeps spam messages for 30 days and now, after a month, I have the number - total 40K spam messages.

We were already running SpamAssassin on our server, so effectively I use GMail to weed extra 100 messages per day that SpamAssassin does not catch. In addition Thunderbird rules were automatically moving expected emails into subfolders, so I just had to delete [almost] all messages from inbox. I was not in a bad shape before, but now it is much better. However I wonder, how "normal" people live with it...