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Spam filtering in Gmail is a killer feature, now as much as when it first appeared. These rants always skip that detail, the primary reason I stick with gmail.
by r0s 13y ago
Spam filtering in Gmail is a killer feature, now as much as when it first appeared.
These rants always skip that detail, the primary reason I stick with gmail.
- sitharus 13y agoFunnily the spam filter is what finally got me off Gmail. It developed a serious false positive problem with a couple of mailing lists I'm subscribed to - and yes the address was in my address book and all the other usual 'fixes'. I can handle false negatives occasionally, but false positives are much harder to spot. Fastmail's filter (SpamAssassin for the most part) is configurable in how aggressive it is.
- myle 13y agoYou could have created a filter to avoid marking these mails as spam.
- ericgoldberg 13y agoOnly after you find out they were getting filtered, usually because someone calls you to say "WhyTF aren't you responding to my emails?"
- dsl 13y agoI have used Fastmail for as long time (Yikes, at least 6 years at this point?), and have never had any issues with their spam filtering. For context I get about 800-1000 ham emails a day.
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- sliverstorm 13y agoYou can always forward your mail through GMail. Publicly, your address is r0s@gmail.com, but that account forwards to another address. Boom, spam filtering. You can even give out your "private" address to trusted parties, and skip the middleman.
- yen223 13y agoThis negates the privacy benefits of not using gmail, no?
- sliverstorm 13y agoSort of. You give out your gmail address to untrusted sources that will sell your address (Forums? Misc. Websites?) and your private addresses to trusted sources. You can't count on your communications with untrusted sources being secret in the first place; they are untrusted!
- r0s 13y agoI wish my address was r0s@gmail.com -_-