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What other e-mail providers do you use, if you don't mind? A primary reason I use Google Apps mail is for the spam filtering.
by kbd 14y ago
What other e-mail providers do you use, if you don't mind? A primary reason I use Google Apps mail is for the spam filtering.
- claudius 14y agoSpam filtering by now is pretty trivial if you don’t mind being an ass about standards - require valid HELOs, valid hostnames, valid PTR records and valid A/AAAA records for these PTR records and hostnames listing the connecting IP and you will hardly get any spam. Add to this ‘temporary addresses’[0] and train your spam filter on everything send to invalid such addresses and basically nothing gets through. [0] I use a scheme where my website and mailing list addresses are of the form claudius_YYMM@example.com. Mails to these addresses are marked as spam after the 15th of MM+1 and before the 15th of MM-1. Obviously only works for mailing lists if they’re open to non-subscribers as well.
- jrockway 14y agoI've found this to be untrue in my experience filtering spam. Being a hard ass drops a lot of legitimate email, and a lot of spammers follow the RFCs beautifully now.
- claudius 14y agoSurely YMMV, but so I only observed two problems: Daily wikipedia articles when delivered via IPv6 (IPv4 worked) and StackExchange while on the west coast due to one of these nice hurricanes.