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 _______________________________________________ SpamBayes@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
