Can I leave Junk mail on the server

[Kristin]

I use gmail as my mail host. Google has a splendid junk filter, which does
an awesome job of classifying SPAM. Unfortunately, even though it is
classified correctly, I still receive lots of it. I have Outlook 2003
configured for POP access. Is there anyway to "pick and choose" which emails
I download from the server? In other words, I want to download the mail in
my gmail Inbox, but leave the SPAM in my Junk folder on the server.

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

If you only download headers you can then pick & choose which items you want
to download and/or delete.

 

[Kristin]

Thanks for the tip, but I would still have to sort through the headers and
delete them, correct? I may as well just download the message because it
doesn't save me any steps.

I can create a flag on my server to identify spam. Is there a way to avoid
downloading messages with specific flags?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

POP3 accounts will download from the Inbox folder on the server. If you
configure your web based mail client to put Spam messages into a different
folder Outlook will not download the messages.

 

[Kristin]

Oh, wow, you're right! Thanks!

POP3 accounts will download from the Inbox folder on the server. If you
configure your web based mail client to put Spam messages into a different
folder Outlook will not download the messages.