Gmail Spam Filter

I've been using Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and Gmail for few years now. Out of these, Gmail certainly has the most effective spam filter and keeps junk out of your Inbox.

The sad part is that at times it even marks some of the important mails as spam and thus you have to keep checking the spam filter regularly.

Few points to keep in mind if you use gmail:

* One way to reduce the chances of important mails being marked as spam is to add to your contact list the addresses from where you expect to receive mails.

* When you send out a mail to some address, then Gmail automatically adds that id to your contact list and thus Gmail should never mark any mail from that id as spam.

* If you download mails using POP, the Spam mails will never get downloaded (which is great in a way). Thus, you will always have to login using the web interface to check mails marked as Spam.