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Hows the spam filter? I fell in love with the idea of switching to other services before on their marketing copy but I'm back in Gmail. It all rests on how good
by corobo 9y ago
Hows the spam filter? I fell in love with the idea of switching to other services before on their marketing copy but I'm back in Gmail. It all rests on how good the spam filtering is by default not after I've received x good and y bad emails.
Unfortunately in this case it sounds like there might be a tradeoff between securing my internet postcards[1] and training spam filters.
[1] and that's all they are really, postcards. We've known that for decades, you can't patch envelopes over emails at this point.
- acidburnNSA 9y ago> by default not after I've received x good and y bad emails That's fair for you to demand. I run my own personal email server with SpamAssassin and I definitely got a lot of spam in the first week. Then I told SA to learn what spam and ham looks like based on what I received and it's been excellent ever since. I have retrained it about once every 2 years but it's really not that bad. Personally, I'm happy to manually filter a handful of spams and then have top-notch filtering plus added privacy.
- corobo 9y agoYup essentially my requirements are simply "I don't want to spend time on my spam filter" In a previous life/job I set up, administered, and maintained mail servers. I don't have an exact count but high tens to low hundreds over multiple clients. I think that's one skill I'm completely burned out on for personal use. Capable, but not willing.
- pmlnr 9y agoBetter than gmail for certain. The false positive rate in gmail is outrageous.