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Practical problem #3 is spam email. Google and the like are pretty good at filtering it. So good that the volume of spam has fallen. But about 10 years ago per
by PhantomGremlin 7y ago
Practical problem #3 is spam email.
Google and the like are pretty good at filtering it. So good that the volume of spam has fallen. But about 10 years ago perhaps 90% of all email was spam. I wonder what the volume is now?
What are the current spam filtering options available to those who want to run a home server? Are they nearly as good as what Google uses?
- krageon 7y agoYou use spamassasin (and maybe spamd as well). In a very practical sense it is miles better than what office365 has. It's not better than google (because what is?), but it comes close.
- stevenicr 7y agoI no longer consider google to be 'good at filtering' - it's over zealous - so it could be true that the huge spam problem has been reduced by a large percent, but that comes at a great cost. To some the cost is less - to those who use email for business, I'd say there are significant loss possibilities. I have recently discovered this in several situations. I think of it more like an a middle man in the ATM or a change making machine that is looking for counterfeit bills - sure it may be great to have it shred 90% of the counterfeits, and some people may never get several hundreds passed through - but if you did and the machine shredded the hundreds being sent to you often - I would not consider that good.