> Spam is killing independent email. gmail is fairly good at blocking it, is easy enough to get into, so it's been winning for years.
> I used to run independent email. It took constant work to get close to gmail's level of spam blocking.
This is very contrary to my experience on both fronts.
gmail spam filtering is mediocre. Spam gets through and good emails are flagged as spam. It's not very good.
For my own domain where I self-host my email, my spam filtering is quite a bit better. Approximately nothing is ever mis-flagged as spam (has not happened in years) and the spam that gets through is a tiny fraction of what my gmail address gets. So for me my own spam filtering is much better than gmail.
And no, it doesn't take constant work. In fact doesn't take any work at all. I set it up years ago, the bayesian filtering goes through all the mail but it takes zero effort from me.
I wish this myth that gmail has some incredible filtering technology that nobody can replicate would just die already. Gmail isn't terrible at spam/ham filtering, but it's not that good either, just mediocre. You can do much better with minimal resources on your own.
> I used to run independent email. It took constant work to get close to gmail's level of spam blocking.
This is very contrary to my experience on both fronts.
gmail spam filtering is mediocre. Spam gets through and good emails are flagged as spam. It's not very good.
For my own domain where I self-host my email, my spam filtering is quite a bit better. Approximately nothing is ever mis-flagged as spam (has not happened in years) and the spam that gets through is a tiny fraction of what my gmail address gets. So for me my own spam filtering is much better than gmail.
And no, it doesn't take constant work. In fact doesn't take any work at all. I set it up years ago, the bayesian filtering goes through all the mail but it takes zero effort from me.
I wish this myth that gmail has some incredible filtering technology that nobody can replicate would just die already. Gmail isn't terrible at spam/ham filtering, but it's not that good either, just mediocre. You can do much better with minimal resources on your own.