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Or forward your gmail to another proper email domain.
by flakeoil 1y ago
Or forward your gmail to another proper email domain.
- mustaphah 1y agoI just can't live without the Gmail spamfilter. It's just the best. Industry-leading; no question.
- nulbyte 1y agoGmail regularly lets through spam, including backscatter spam from mail sent to the google.com domain spoofing Gmail users. Industry-leading is not the term I would use to describe their spam heuristics. Grey listing has been far more effective at stopping spam than some half-baked AI garbage from Google.
- mustaphah 1y agoNot ideal - can't disagree. Still, it's the industry leader. I'm not aware of a better spamfilter. Grey listing doesn't scale; not for me.
- akkartik 1y agoI forward everything including spam to Fastmail. Their spam filter is absolutely fine. This way I don't need to check for false positives in 2 places. You're probably losing one genuine message a year if you don't check your Gmail spam folder.
- nottorp 1y agoHmm. Not really. I run greylisting on my personal domain which is extremely low traffic and lately I'm getting like 4-5 spams per day that obey it correctly. Which is more than the non spam emails that come on it :)
- xandrius 1y agoHave you tried other things? And not saying just Microsoft.
- mustaphah 1y agoProton Mail is good (just not as good), but you can't integrate external SMTP for outbound emails; you have to pay to send from @yourdomain.com. With Gmail, you can configure an external SMTP server using "Send mail as" setting. Super convenient. Tons of mail services offer a generous free tier for personal use (e.g., Mailgun 100 emails/day). It's not really worth paying just to send a few personal emails from @yourdomain.com each month.
- jp191919 1y agoI control spam by using email aliases. And it makes it easy to track exactly who leaked/sold my email address. But I don't use gmail, as I value my privacy.
- mustaphah 1y agoI do aliases as well. Never enough. A battle-tested spammer would run s/+[^@]*// on the address before sending.
- lentil_soup 1y agoI have my own domain and just do <website-name>@mydomain.com and redirect everything to the same inbox sorted in folders. Works pretty well, if any of those addresses gets into some spam list I just block it (hasn't happened yet, though)
- mustaphah 1y agoCatch-all (*) setup is the best, until a spammer hits a gibberish localpart (on purpose) and your domain cheerfully accepts it. Don't get me wrong, I use catch-all too (don't tell spammers).
- layer8 1y agoI whitelist using regular expressions (specific prefixes mostly). Gibberish and random localparts are unlikely to match those, it effectively never happens.
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- zamadatix 1y agoSubaddressing != aliasing.
- mustaphah 1y ago
- andrewshadura 1y agoThat's what I thought too until I moved to Fastmail. It certainly isn't worse.
- mustaphah 1y agoFastmail is great. It's just that I'm not willing to pay 5$ each month to send 5 emails from @mydomain.com. 1$ per email is too much, right?
- andrewshadura 1y agoI have all of my mail (and all of my domains) there, that makes it a fair deal. It also fetches from gmail and other places.
- alextingle 1y agoGmail is absolutely terrible for false positives. I'm sure they do it deliberately to discourage people from using other e-mail services.
- mustaphah 1y agoWhat's your setup? If you're forwarding, an SPF-only aligned email will fail DMARC, and it's the sender's fault: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45441243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45441243 Next time a legit email ends up in your spam folder, use this tool to figure out why: https://mxtoolbox.com/EmailHeaders.aspx https://mxtoolbox.com/EmailHeaders.aspx I've had a few cases myself, and it's always been the sender's fault.
- tarboreus 1y agoYes, they do. But you'll get 5 responses saying you're doing something wrong.
- tarboreus 1y agoThis comment is from 1020.
- LightBug1 1y agoLOL. Thanks.
- f4uCL9dNSnQm 1y agoIt is at least 5 months since spammers use fake "delivery error" to skip the filter: http://old.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1jzf6o2/fake_delivery_status_notification_failure_emails/ http://old.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1jzf6o2/fake_... . I would expect more from industry-leading company. Just joking, I expect nothing from GMail team after I noticed that "block sender" option just puts emails in spam folder instead of deleting them on arrival.
- reaperducer 1y agoI just can't live without the Gmail spamfilter. It's just the best. Industry-leading; no question. I have accounts on Gmail and other services, and can say from close to a decade of use that Fastmail's spam filter is usually far better than Gmail's. Occasionally it'll fall behind for a few weeks, but always seems to catch up or surpass Google's. Over the last couple of months, for example, 100% of the spam I've received has come from Gmail. 0% from Fastmail.