[Spambayes] Alternative to Gmail?

[Joseph Dal Molin]

Have a look at Fastmail www.fastmail.fm..... don't know how good their 
filters etc. are I use them as a backup.

Joseph

Jesse Pelton wrote:
> A friend of mine swears by usermail.com.  It costs $19.95/year and
> includes POP3 and IMAP access in the clear or over SSL.  They claim to
> have "fully customizable spam filtering," but not having used their
> services myself, I don't know whether the customization is useful.  They
> also do virus scanning on inbound messages.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spambayes-bounces at python.org [mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org]
> On Behalf Of skip at pobox.com
> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 10:19 AM
> To: spambayes at python.org
> Subject: [Spambayes] Alternative to Gmail?
> 
> This is more than a bit off-topic for this list, but as the folks here
> are
> interested in email and spam I thought I'd see what recommendations you
> have.
> 
> Since leaving the Mojam/Musi-Cal space about 6-8 months ago and no
> longer
> having easy, guaranteed long-term access to a mail server I've been
> using
> Gmail.  On the surface it's quite nice.  I can read mail through the web
> wherever I happen to be, and it seemed that it was doing a pretty good
> job
> of filtering out spam, taking a load off both SpamBayes and my laptop.
> 
> Over the past few days it's become increasingly obvious though that
> Gmail is
> actually doing a very bad job of spam filtering.  I don't mind the few
> true
> spams that it misses, maybe 10-15 per day, most of which SpamBayes
> classifies correctly.  I first noticed it when I noticed much of the
> mail I
> sent to lists I post to frequently were themselves being classified as
> spam.
> It seems that Gmail is mistakenly classifying several good emails each
> day
> as spam, again, maybe 10-15 messages.  That means I must wade through
> the
> thousands of emails in my spam box searching among the detritus for the
> good
> messages Gmail missed.  Hardly makes sense to use a spam filter if you
> have
> to pick through your spam manually.
> 
> To make matters worse, they provide essentially no tools to help in that
> search.  For instance, you can't select all the non-English (or
> non-Roman
> character set) spams to quickly get them out of the way.  You can't turn
> a
> knob to make their spam filter less aggressive (or disable it
> altogether).
> The mail messages aren't marked in any way that would indicate why Gmail
> thought a particular message was spam.
> 
> Long story short, I think I want to find an alternative email provider.
> Are
> any of the others any better?  I do need POP or IMAP access.  Beyond
> that
> I'm pretty flexible.
> 
> Thx,
> 
> Skip
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