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I switched away from Gmail a couple of years ago – I have gotten the impression that spam is only still a thing for Gmail users. Gmail's spam filters would bre

I switched away from Gmail a couple of years ago – I have gotten the impression that spam is only still a thing for Gmail users. Gmail's spam filters would break horribly for me every few years, either flooding my inbox with spam, or filing obviously-not-spam emails in the spam folder. With Fastmail, my experience is that all spam goes to the spam folder, and only a few questionable newsletters get put in the spam folder by "mistake".

city41 5y ago
My personal email address has been gmail since it launched. I find occasionally a spam email gets into my inbox. It's very rare, maybe 4 or 5 per year. I don't remember the last time a legitimate email got marked as spam, I'm not sure it has ever happened to me.
marcosdumay 5y ago
Gmail does suck on both get spam out of your inbox and get real email into your inbox but it's not the worst one around. And well, that could answer the OP's question, people didn't give up because there are a few providers that will receive their email and show it to users. Take any Exchange service as an example, if your email is technically formed enough to be received (many real senders will be rejected here), it will be received, and it's up to the user to forbid that one instance of spam, like if it's the 90's.
darknavi 5y ago
I've been using gmail (Google Apps for Business or what ever they call it now days) for like 10 years and the spam functionality has always worked pretty well for me.
- bdcravens 5y ago
  I agree, though over the past 2 years more and more keeps sneaking through their spam filters.
anderspitman 5y ago
I get a lot more spam with Gmail than Fastmail, but it all goes directly to the spam folder so the experience is largely the same for me. Hard to say how much of it is that my Gmail account has been around a lot longer and part of multiple email leaks.
Broken_Hippo 5y ago
I don't have that issue. In general, spam goes into the spam folder, which I can conveniently ignore. This wasn't the case some years ago. I might occasionally mark something as spam. I occasionally check the spam folder. I tell myself this is to make sure I didn't miss anything but realistically, it is so I can laugh at the ridiculousness. Only rarely does something I want get put in the spam folder.

city41 5y ago

My personal email address has been gmail since it launched. I find occasionally a spam email gets into my inbox. It's very rare, maybe 4 or 5 per year. I don't remember the last time a legitimate email got marked as spam, I'm not sure it has ever happened to me.

marcosdumay 5y ago

Gmail does suck on both get spam out of your inbox and get real email into your inbox but it's not the worst one around. And well, that could answer the OP's question, people didn't give up because there are a few providers that will receive their email and show it to users. Take any Exchange service as an example, if your email is technically formed enough to be received (many real senders will be rejected here), it will be received, and it's up to the user to forbid that one instance of spam, like if it's the 90's.

darknavi 5y ago

I've been using gmail (Google Apps for Business or what ever they call it now days) for like 10 years and the spam functionality has always worked pretty well for me.

bdcravens 5y ago
I agree, though over the past 2 years more and more keeps sneaking through their spam filters.

anderspitman 5y ago

I get a lot more spam with Gmail than Fastmail, but it all goes directly to the spam folder so the experience is largely the same for me. Hard to say how much of it is that my Gmail account has been around a lot longer and part of multiple email leaks.

Broken_Hippo 5y ago

I don't have that issue. In general, spam goes into the spam folder, which I can conveniently ignore. This wasn't the case some years ago. I might occasionally mark something as spam. I occasionally check the spam folder. I tell myself this is to make sure I didn't miss anything but realistically, it is so I can laugh at the ridiculousness. Only rarely does something I want get put in the spam folder.