anyone use email forwarding to organize and avoid spam?

[her34]

i have access to use email forwarding. i was thinking of setting it up so to help avoid spam. so for instance i would have:

friends@xyz.com
shop@xyz.com
school@xyz.com

and use them accordingly. if shop@xyz.com gets to much spam, i delete it and start using shop2@xyz.com

anyone else do something like this? any better ideas?

one problem is that they all would go to the same email account, so when i reply to any emails they would all have the same return email address.

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Could use something like mailwasher. That, or some filters and the mail to different folders. Maybe have a separate email address you use for signing up for things on line.

 

[her209]

Put all mail from people in your contacts into your Inbox. Discard everything else or put it into a Junk Mail folder.

 

[jadinolf]

My ISP tosses out the SPAM and is just about perfect in doing so.

 

[gopunk]

yes, i use spamex. it takes care of the problem you describe too.