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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 10:19 AM > To: spambayes@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 > _______________________________________________ > SpamBayes@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes > Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html > _______________________________________________ > SpamBayes@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes > Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html > . > _______________________________________________ SpamBayes@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
