Gmail Filtering

Hi everybody,
I am fairly new to blackberry (curve 8330) and i have a question about e-mail, gmail to be more specific.
I have my email set up that it receives every message that I get, including ads and spam, some of which i actually want, but i do not want all of it forwarding to my phone, only thing i found i could do is mark as read/archive it, but then it still shows up in my blackberry log (not bold, but still clutters things up), is there a way to set my blackberry to only receive certain messages? only the ones in "inbox" or any other label?
thanks,
Mike

Indeed you can. It's called filters. See this KB:
KB04558 Add a filter to a BlackBerry Internet Service account
While not truly a spam filtration solution, it does give you some ability to set rules for what to deliver or what to not deliver -- it works both ways.
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