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Originally Posted by TenFour
... Probably check it once a day.
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That's the main drawback to this scheme: the spam isn't forwarded, so one needs to go to the Gmail account to check for false positives. And spam filtering that delivers spam to spam folders rather than blocking it's delivery tend to be more aggressive since it is assumed that the user checks the spam for false positives and reports any mistake (marking as "spam" or "not spam"). That's another drawback of filtering and then forwarding: there is n feedback to the spam filtering algorithm. A better way is if the forwarding service marks spam and forwards everything, and then the final destination client can use this marking of spam for final spam filtering, and best if it has some method of reporting mistakes in the classification of spam (and "learns" from this feedback).
When email is used for work false positives can represent loss of business.