Gmail used to be great back in the early 2000s, but its time has long passed. The metro-ified UI is ugly and clearly only designed for tablets, options are stea

Gmail used to be great back in the early 2000s, but its time has long passed. The metro-ified UI is ugly and clearly only designed for tablets, options are steadily being hidden or removed, and the privacy concerns have only got worse. Not to mention, if you want to use a better client such as Thunderbird, their IMAP is glacially slow and often breaks altogether. The only other alternative is to use POP3 to bulk download all mail and sort through it locally. I switched from gmail to running my own mailserver a couple of years ago; best decision I ever made about email. It's faster, more private, I can issue my own DKIM keys (and I know my signatures haven't been messed with), and I get sane spam filtering with visible scores that doesn't source its data from other people's email and has a much lower false positive and false negative rate, which only improves via Bayesian learning.