I keep most of my stuff hosted in the the US, but I route all my mail through to an account that I keep going here in Oz.
This is at Webcentral, because there wasn't a lot of choice back when I first set this up.
I have Bigpond cable (got it prior to ADSL and haven't switched yet), and I don't trust Telstra's pop servers.
Webcentral's mail servers are getting flakier every day. They run NT; naturally I'd prefer a Linux-based mail provider.
And the spam problem is getting unmaneagable. A couple of my favourite email addresses have finally leaked to the evildoers, and the Bayesian filters are being successfully gamed by a larger proportion of the spam that hits my inbox every day. I do get useful mail from strangers fairly often, so I'm not up for switching to whitelists or setting up some prove-you're-a-human rigmarole. I'm pretty sure that if the latter takes off, we'll just start getting spam that pretends to be a "prove you're a human" message from someone we've mailed, just as we now get spam pretending to be bounce messages.
Even the of spam that gets caught by my filters is enough to give me pause; 20MB or so a week. It makes more sense to kill at least most of it at the server.
So: what's your favourite mail provider? Anyone using a dedicated mail service? Or should I just switch to ADSL and use my new ISP's servers?
Thanks,
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