Comments on: Using Gmail with an IMAP account http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/14/using-gmail-with-an-imap-account/ Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:37:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ted Pavlic http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/14/using-gmail-with-an-imap-account/#comment-2514 Ted Pavlic Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:36:19 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/14/using-gmail-with-an-imap-account/#comment-2514 That sounds fine with me. Glad I could help. :) That sounds fine with me. Glad I could help. :)

]]> By: Tim http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/14/using-gmail-with-an-imap-account/#comment-2513 Tim Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:33:03 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/14/using-gmail-with-an-imap-account/#comment-2513 @Ted, another great comment! I might blog that up as a post in its own right, if that's OK with you. @Ted, another great comment! I might blog that up as a post in its own right, if that’s OK with you.

]]> By: Ted Pavlic http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/14/using-gmail-with-an-imap-account/#comment-2510 Ted Pavlic Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:24:27 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/14/using-gmail-with-an-imap-account/#comment-2510 Personally, I think it would be smarter forwarding copies of mail from a PRIVATE account TO Google. Right now my unfiltered mail goes to my private IMAP provider and its spam filters then through my spam filters and then into my inbox. That unfiltered mail also gets copied and goes to Google. I login to Google periodically to "report spam" to train its spam filter. I also train my local spam filters. My private account gets two to three spam messages a month in the inbox and no false positives. My Google account (with the same mail) gets hundreds of spam messages in the mailbox PER WEEK and frequently finds false positives. Google does a terrible job filtering spam. It's true they have a great way to archive and search for mail. So if you're going to get your own IMAP account somewhere else, just make that your mail address. Forward COPIES of your FILTERED mail to Google as an archive. Set Google up as your SMTP server too so you can save copies of your outgoing mail as well. This config (notably different than the one suggested above), to me, is best of both worlds. Personally, I think it would be smarter forwarding copies of mail from a PRIVATE account TO Google.

Right now my unfiltered mail goes to my private IMAP provider and its spam filters then through my spam filters and then into my inbox. That unfiltered mail also gets copied and goes to Google. I login to Google periodically to “report spam” to train its spam filter. I also train my local spam filters. My private account gets two to three spam messages a month in the inbox and no false positives. My Google account (with the same mail) gets hundreds of spam messages in the mailbox PER WEEK and frequently finds false positives.

Google does a terrible job filtering spam. It’s true they have a great way to archive and search for mail.

So if you’re going to get your own IMAP account somewhere else, just make that your mail address. Forward COPIES of your FILTERED mail to Google as an archive. Set Google up as your SMTP server too so you can save copies of your outgoing mail as well. This config (notably different than the one suggested above), to me, is best of both worlds.

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