More To Gmail And The Fight Against Spam

I posted recently here and here about Gmail and its Mail Fetcher as it is officially called and the excellent built-in Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus protection of Gmail itself.

I wrote about checking your other external email accounts through Gmail and therefore gaining the use of the two "Anti's" mentioned above.

I must be stupid. I realized today that if you don't have access to the "Gmail Beta" "Mail Fetcher Beta" then most of you have the ability to forward your other email to a Gmail account.

For example, my wife has a Yahoo account that, through no fault of her own, attracts between 2-10 Spams per day. Yahoo do a pretty poor job of Spam filtering. Her 2 Gmail accounts do not have the Mail Fetcher possibility yet. So what to do? Forward all Yahoo mail to Gmail. So simple, why didn't I think of it before?

All mail still appears in your inbox exactly how it was sent and you still have, in Thunderbird anyway, the ability to reply to that email through your original outgoing (SMTP) server.

Gmail is functioning as a very successful pass-through filter.

Done!!!

Update:

It has been one month or 31 days since I have been picking this problem account up through Gmail Fetcher. Gmail has filtered out 775 messages as Spam at a 100% success rate of true spam, not one false positive, although it did let 26 slip through. That's less than 1 per day.

I can live with that.

My Favorite Movie

What a brilliant movie.

Yet again I have just watched it for the 7th or 8th time. It was originally released in 1994 and I first saw it in 1996.

The leading actors are Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman (no more needs to be said),

directed by Frank Darabont (The Green Mile)

and written by Stephen King (I think he's written a few books).

The film ranks 2nd to The Godfather in the top 250 movies of IMDb but with 20% more votes.

If you haven't seen it then watch it and if you have then watch it again.

The Shawshank Redemption!!!!

Gmail And Spam

Here's a bit more to add to my post, A True Spam Solution.

It's been 20 days since I have been picking up the email of my problem account through Gmail that was attracting 20-30 spam per day.

The Gmail filter and has let an average of 1 spam per day through so it is not perfect but as good as it gets; I can certainly live with that.

So now I have opened a new Gmail account for the soul purpose of handling this problem account.

I also use the extension Gmail Manager to monitor from Firefox what is going on with my various accounts, i.e. how many spam mails are arriving to each account. So far Gmail has not marked 1 email as spam incorrectly.

Here's a screen shot of the pop-up from the status bar (but not my status bar).