If I add a POP account to gmail will it go through Google spam filter?

grumpycrab

I repeat, if I add a POP account to gmail will it (the POP mail) go through Google (mail's) spam filter?

bod1467

Can you clarify what you mean by "add a POP account to gmail"?

Cycrow

i assume they mean POP3 access to their inbox.

the filters will have happened before the mail hits the inbox, so anything downloaded via pop3 will be the same as you would view online.

however, if you view the mail from multiple devices, using IMAP would be better

grumpycrab

Sorry, I'll clarify. Under Gmail options you can "Check email from other accounts (using POP3):" I know somebody who gets alot of spam and so I was thinking of one way to cut it out is to
a. create a gmail account (probably to be unused)
b. add their current email account (usingPOP) to Gmail

And I am asking if the email accessed this way will go through Gmails excellent spam filter (well I find it excellent).

BT's filter (which, as you say, will already have been applied, is useless).

Main restriction:- don't change the user's email address. And I don't want to tell the user how to use a newly created Gmail email account as if its their BT email. (if you know what I mean). Things are complicated enough as it is...

Cycrow

ah you mean pulling in mail via another pop account, rather than accessing gmail via pop.

this would depend on where the spam filters actually are. Most servers will do it as mail is being sent to the server. In that case, it wouldn't effect the mail from the pop account.

however, you could forward the mail from the account to gmail, this would go via the spam filters.
Most mail accounts have the option to forward all mail to another address