Is There A Way To Keep Very Noisy Mailing Lists Out Of Your Gmail Inbox And Still Participate In Them?

I am trying to keep a noisy mailing list out of my Gmail inbox (and I don't want to switch to https://Inbox.google.com just yet). It's not a noisy list per-se; there's a lot of signal (good information) but I'd prefer to keep it out of my inbox, except for the few posts that I participate in. I don't see a way to do this, which has convinced me to use Google's Inbox app.

Google Inbox combines many similar emails into bundles, either from a mailing list but also by the type of message, for example, groupon deals) into a single item in your inbox. It's basically a way of creating email filter rules but at the same time, alert you when there's a new message (new mailing list post, new groupon) without crowding your Inbox with each new message.

By the way, does anyone else have a huge Gmail inbox? Mine has 300,000 unread messages, going all the way back to 2005 when I first created it. Thank you to the poster from alt.games.mame who sent me that precious invited, back when Gmail was invitation only! It just got out of control and unmanageable. I do skim over all of the subject lines and read emails directly but I don't open reach one.

How To Forward All Mail In Gmail Without A Filter

Here's how you do it: You download it with POP3 to the other gmail account.

In the account that needs all of it's mail forwarded, select this option under POP3/IMAP:

1. Status: POP is enabled for all mail that has arrived since xx/x/xx
(x) Enable POP for all mail (even mail that's already been downloaded)

In the account where you want the mail forwarded to, just download all your emails! Use you Google Account username for the username (without the @gmail.com domain), enter your password, and choose port 995, smtp server smtp.gmail.com amd Use SSL. Don't select "Leave a copy of retrieved message on the server" as gmail doesn't support it, and will give you an error.

There are other similar articles around the net but none have this solution.

I'm still waiting to be 100% sure it works as my account still says "checking mail" but it doesn't show anything yet in my new account.

Update as of May 20, 2009: It downloaded all the email from the old Google-Mail account but sent them all to spam. But hey, it worked! Now the last thing is export my contacts and import them into the new one.