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I like the concept - but it's missing a discussion of how they handle what I consider to be (by a pretty large factor) one of the most important feature in emai
by ghshephard 13y ago
I like the concept - but it's missing a discussion of how they handle what I consider to be (by a pretty large factor) one of the most important feature in email - Anti-Spam.
Gmail (which I'm not suggesting is an ideal, just what I happen to use) doesn't even bother to show me my spam folder - and, in the last week, it's redirected 1178 messages there.
- HerraBRE 13y agoAbsolutely. I'm the lead developer - I spent almost 6 years working on anti-virus and anti-spam, so rest assured we know this is a big deal. :-) There is alot of quality stuff in the open source world already which we will be able to build on. Update: To clarify why we left it out of the pitch - we just took it for granted that you can't have a functional e-mail client without dealing with spam.
- eps 13y agoYou should clarify it for sure. This is really important and it's hard to do properly.
- anentropic 13y agoNothing I tried ever handled spam as well as Gmail, I was drowning in it, it's the number one reason I use Gmail. I see so little spam now I think if everyone used Gmail the spammers would have to give up. There are plenty of nice-enough webmail UIs around, and people complain about the speed of Gmail but I find it perfectly fine. Spam's the thing.
- Semaphor 13y agoI recently switched to fastmail.fm and I really can't complain about their spam filtering even though they are way smaller than gmail.