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You just barely trained your spam filter and are surprised that you got another spam? Why are you giving up so early? The spam filter only gets better over time

You just barely trained your spam filter and are surprised that you got another spam? Why are you giving up so early? The spam filter only gets better over time, and you're quitting without giving it a chance. Also note that you can tweak your spam preferences. For example, I have mine set to mark things at spam at a score of 4.0 instead of the default score of 5.0.

thatswrong0 9y ago
Gmail user here: I like the fact that Gmail's spam filter just works. The false positive rate is incredibly low for me.. things rarely end up in my spam folder that don't belong there. And I didnt have to configure anything. Why should I want to struggle for so long to get the same level of functionality?
- eridius 9y ago
  Back before I switched to FastMail, I did actually have to keep an eye on my Gmail spam folder, because stuff I wanted would end up there every now and then. And the very subject of this article is emails that people want to receive getting filed into spam by Gmail (but not by other mail hosts).
corobo 9y ago
It was the #1 reason. Other issues were I had about 480 emails in my inbox. I'm not sure where the difference is but I've always managed an "Inbox Zero" with Googles' Inbox There are other things I missed from Inbox too such as reminders "hit t - set reminder", snoozing emails till another time and I have a few people that contact me via Hangouts so I ended up loading Inbox occasionally anyway to see those messages. No fault on Fastmail really, if I'd never discovered Inbox I'd still be using it. In regards to spam I just can't be dealing with training a spam filter, I was reminded it was one of the reasons I switched from self hosted to Gmail in the first place. Edit: For what it's worth the SEO and website spam emails weren't getting a spam rating at all, most were <2.0 Edit 2: Also while looking at the spambox for that last message I now realise a lot of my server backup status messages were going into the spam box with a 7.1 spam rating. Edit 3: I'm going to stop editing after this one. Edit 2 was on me, the backup messages were sending direct rather than via mailgun.
- eridius 9y ago
  FWIW there are other mail clients that add snoozing behavior to arbitrary mail providers. For example, the Spark app will snooze emails on my FastMail account. I don't personally use that functionality, but I know it exists.
  - corobo 9y ago
    I switch between mobile and multiple desktops frequently unfortunately, appreciate the suggestion but I don't think that would work for me
    - eridius 9y ago
      Spark has both an iOS and a Mac app, though if you're using other platforms that doesn't really help.
      - corobo 9y ago
        Fraid not, I'm a Linux sorta guy. Very jealous of some of the tools Mac gets but not quite enough to budget for a Mac :)

thatswrong0 9y ago

Gmail user here: I like the fact that Gmail's spam filter just works. The false positive rate is incredibly low for me.. things rarely end up in my spam folder that don't belong there. And I didnt have to configure anything. Why should I want to struggle for so long to get the same level of functionality?

eridius 9y ago
Back before I switched to FastMail, I did actually have to keep an eye on my Gmail spam folder, because stuff I wanted would end up there every now and then. And the very subject of this article is emails that people want to receive getting filed into spam by Gmail (but not by other mail hosts).

corobo 9y ago

It was the #1 reason. Other issues were I had about 480 emails in my inbox. I'm not sure where the difference is but I've always managed an "Inbox Zero" with Googles' Inbox There are other things I missed from Inbox too such as reminders "hit t - set reminder", snoozing emails till another time and I have a few people that contact me via Hangouts so I ended up loading Inbox occasionally anyway to see those messages. No fault on Fastmail really, if I'd never discovered Inbox I'd still be using it. In regards to spam I just can't be dealing with training a spam filter, I was reminded it was one of the reasons I switched from self hosted to Gmail in the first place. Edit: For what it's worth the SEO and website spam emails weren't getting a spam rating at all, most were <2.0 Edit 2: Also while looking at the spambox for that last message I now realise a lot of my server backup status messages were going into the spam box with a 7.1 spam rating. Edit 3: I'm going to stop editing after this one. Edit 2 was on me, the backup messages were sending direct rather than via mailgun.

eridius 9y ago
FWIW there are other mail clients that add snoozing behavior to arbitrary mail providers. For example, the Spark app will snooze emails on my FastMail account. I don't personally use that functionality, but I know it exists.
- corobo 9y ago
  I switch between mobile and multiple desktops frequently unfortunately, appreciate the suggestion but I don't think that would work for me
  - eridius 9y ago
    Spark has both an iOS and a Mac app, though if you're using other platforms that doesn't really help.
    - corobo 9y ago
      Fraid not, I'm a Linux sorta guy. Very jealous of some of the tools Mac gets but not quite enough to budget for a Mac :)