Can’t Gmail just POP my Inbox?
I access my gmail accounts through POP3 from my phone. The problem with doing this is that all messages get exposed through POP, even the ones that are filtered out of the inbox. This means that my phone which has much lower HCI bandwidth gets cluttered with all this list-mail that is less useful to me. I’ve configured gmail to filter this stuff out to be lower priority I’m using the web interfaces, but when I’m using a POP client, this filtering is lost. What I’d really like is the ability to configure the POP3 access with a checkbox saying I only want messages in the Inbox to be exposed out through POP3. I thought gmail used to have this option, but I can find no record of this and have to wonder if I was perhaps imagining this. The gmail mobile web interface is smart enough to do this — maybe that’s what I was thinking of.
Other alternatives include forwarding list-mail to another list-only account and deleting it, but that is frankly kinda lame. Or if there was a way to create a filter that runs only on messages left in the inbox after the other rules have run, then I could forward the inbox messages to another account that I read with my phone. But I don’t think that option is currently available either.