I have recently started using GMAIL as my pop-mail spam filter and its working great so far.

I used to check my pop-mails through web based system. I decided to centralise all of this and just use GMAIL. I feel GMAIL has a better SPAM filtering logic, and secondly I wanted to centralise all my emails.

The way I went about is, for my pop-mail, I went to the "C-Panel" and added a filter to sent all mails to '[email protected]' (an existing email adderss) to '[email protected]' (a non existing email address)

Then I created a "FORWARDER" to send all email coming to '[email protected]' to '[email protected]'

Now, in my GMAIL account, I created a "LABEL" to identify these emails and added a "FILTER" such that all email where "TO: contains [email protected]" should be 'applied the newly created label' and should 'skip inbox'.

This works like a charm for me.

1. I check all my emails at one place.
2. Storage capacity is not a problem as emails stay only in GMAIL box. Even if you own a 5MB webspace, no need to worry
3. Even if your domain expires (for those lazy people like me), you still retain all your old emails.
4. Take advantage of Googles Spam Filter.
5. Probably many more advantages I havent figured out yet...