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Is there any software out there that handles spam as well as Gmail's spam filter? The rest of the features that Gmail offers seem like they'd be hard to replic

by icey 16y ago

Is there any software out there that handles spam as well as Gmail's spam filter? The rest of the features that Gmail offers seem like they'd be hard to replicate as well - I'm talking about the cool stuff like being able to put arbitrary periods in your email address, or adding +whatever to the end of it. I really like Gmail today, but if there were a way to replicate all the nice things it does on a server I controlled that would be pretty sweet.

mattmcknight 16y ago
Too many of the nice things it does can't be done on "a server" you control.
- blueben 16y ago
  Aside from the UI, what can't be replicated?
Terretta 16y ago
Out of curiosity, why? Does your cost calculation include opportunity cost of time? If Google does it well, why would you want to spend your time on duplicating that instead of spending your time on your own original skill?
- icey 16y ago
  Mostly because I want to see how it works. That and I can't shake the fear that one day my Google account will be locked for some mysterious reason and I'll be stuck without any of my email until I can figure out how to get it turned back on. I don't have the advantage of being a blogger, and that seems to be the only reliable way to get customer service from Google.
  - Terretta 16y ago
    I recommend using Gmail (ideally, Google Apps for Your Domain) as your primary, and using an IMAP sync tool to back it up to something not owned by Google. With some a hundred employee accounts in Gmail for the past several years, I'd say it's been more reliable than the local electric company. We've never needed customer service from Google for Gmail. We're all engineers, but we have better things to do than run email servers. Email is a problem we can happily consider "solved".
lallysingh 16y ago
The spam filter isn't my favorite. Every time I go into my junk mail folder, I see too many mailing list entries in there, for obviously valid messages. These are all programming mailing lists, and the messages are just regular programming talk.

by icey 16y ago

mattmcknight 16y ago

Too many of the nice things it does can't be done on "a server" you control.

blueben 16y ago
Aside from the UI, what can't be replicated?

Terretta 16y ago

Out of curiosity, why? Does your cost calculation include opportunity cost of time? If Google does it well, why would you want to spend your time on duplicating that instead of spending your time on your own original skill?

icey 16y ago
Mostly because I want to see how it works. That and I can't shake the fear that one day my Google account will be locked for some mysterious reason and I'll be stuck without any of my email until I can figure out how to get it turned back on. I don't have the advantage of being a blogger, and that seems to be the only reliable way to get customer service from Google.
- Terretta 16y ago
  I recommend using Gmail (ideally, Google Apps for Your Domain) as your primary, and using an IMAP sync tool to back it up to something not owned by Google. With some a hundred employee accounts in Gmail for the past several years, I'd say it's been more reliable than the local electric company. We've never needed customer service from Google for Gmail. We're all engineers, but we have better things to do than run email servers. Email is a problem we can happily consider "solved".

lallysingh 16y ago

The spam filter isn't my favorite. Every time I go into my junk mail folder, I see too many mailing list entries in there, for obviously valid messages. These are all programming mailing lists, and the messages are just regular programming talk.