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Unfortunately this article neglects one of Gmail's strongest features: superb turnkey spam filtering. Anyone with an email address older than 5 years is going
by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
Unfortunately this article neglects one of Gmail's strongest features: superb turnkey spam filtering.
Anyone with an email address older than 5 years is going to be buried in spam thus will need spam filtering with a super low false positive rate.
- sbierwagen 11y agoGoing through the hassle of setting up SPF and DKIM for my domain reduced the amount of spam I get quite a bit.
- ikawe 11y agoHow do those affect the amount of spam you receive? I thought they were just to make it less likely your outgoing mail would be marked as spam by someone else.
- cowsandmilk 11y ago> I thought they were just to make it less likely your outgoing mail would be marked as spam by someone else. Setting it up can mean that you check these things on the receiving end. Big difference between self-hosting and accepting all e-mails and self-hosting and checking the sender's SPF and DKIM.
- trumpd 11y agoYou can check incoming SPF/DKIM/DMARC regardless of whether you implement it for your own mail. That said, it will reduce bounce-back from spam that forges your domain.
- bryanlarsen 11y agoGoogle's spam filtering is currently useless, IMO. It's too aggressive, so you have to regularly check your spam box for messages. If I have to check the spam box regularly, why bother having one?
- gopowerranger 11y agoThis is true of any spam filter. You either have it set as too aggressive or you don't. You either put up with spam that gets through or you check your spam box more often. Google's is better than most.
- bryanlarsen 11y agoHow do I set the google spam filter to be less aggressive?
- gopowerranger 11y agoI don't think you can but that wasn't my point.
- amelius 11y agoWhen it comes to spam, Gmail has an advantage of scale. For example, if the same message is sent to thousands of email accounts, Gmail can detect this and mark the message as spam (or increase a penalty). I'm not sure how one could parallel this kind of behavior in a self-hosted mail solution.
- dingaling 11y ago> Anyone with an email address older than 5 years is going to be buried in spam I've had my current domain for 10 years, don't run any spam filtering ( just fail2ban ) and I've had fewer pieces of spam than I have fingers. So whatever you're doing... Stop doing it.