I use Gmail and I don’t empty my Spam folder. I had a habit of emptying it on a regular basis, but I found that there was really no reason to do that. I’ve not had any false positives (that I know of) so I don’t look at anything in there anymore. I also wanted to see how much spam I get in a month so I just let it pile up in the spam folder, Gmail deletes spam messages after (about) thirty days. Late last year it was hovering around 1200 with a spike when the Internet was hit with a massive botnet. As of today it has dropped below 500. I’m not don’t know of any major work over the last month or so to take down botnets, but I’m sure we will continue to see a decline since the ‘Spam King’ was recently indicted and arrested. I’m happy either way since that will mean the Internet in general will be just a bit faster since the majority of email traffic.
Enjoy your cleaner mail client!
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