Rules for processing incoming emails... a good thing?

[toremor]

I have one folder to which I automatically send some of my emails. The folder is called "Mostly unimportant". I automatically send emails from a couple of mailing lists, and some auto-generated emails that very seldom is interesting to this box. Sometimes I scan through the folder, but most of the time I just delete them all.

The others emails end up in my inbox for normal GTD processing. I think the answer to your question is no. It is not a good thing to auto process incoming emails. The ones I filter out are those which I know for sure isn't important in any way.