two email accounts for one email address; to recieve tagged spam

[tooltime]

hi,

not sure if this question belongs here, and I am pretty much a noob.

our email is hosted by avanet and spamassasin and spam box are enabled at the domain level. The problem is NONE of the spam can be received into our pop 3 Outlook email client unless the email account’s User Name has “/spam� added to the end of it (under Logon Information in email accounts settings). in that case ONLY spam is received from their server and not regular email.

So my question is will this work: I have two email accounts for my one email address; the second account has /spam added to the User Name. so my default email gets all the non spam and the second account gets the spam.

this seems to be working and a rule in outlook moves tagged spam to a junk folder.

i guess what really confuses me is why avanet could not suggest this in our week long trading of emails to resolve how and why I could get both spam and non spam received into my pop 3 account.