I use Fastmail and the main difference I notice is less effective spam filtering — it’s good but not as great as Gmail was.

Overall it’s been an acceptable trade off and I’m glad years ago I switched to a custom domain for email so I can have portability.

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rubyn00bie 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Damn that’s wild to me, because Gmail absolutely refuses to send things to spam despite me incessantly marking them as spam.

I honestly assumed that everyone had a rotten time with Gmail spam filtering but I guess it’s just a me problem. I suppose that means I’m up for an interesting time dealing with it as I move to a custom domain somewhere else.

Anyone have any recommendations for providers that have exceptionally good spam filtering? Hell I’d even just settle for ones that honor “mark as spam,” because Gmail absolutely does not.

	▲	subscribed an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I get maybe one genuine spam not marked as such and maybe one false positive per month. I'm getting a lot of emails and between 10-20 spams a day, but that's years of the very careful messages reporting and categorisation. Similarly with important and "normal" emails - i only get one-two important per week, and marked as such for the same reasons; no false negatives.
	▲	boneitis 37 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's not just you. I experience the same thing. It is thoroughly maddening.

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FireBeyond 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Interesting, I have used Fastmail for probably a decade plus at this point, and whether it's my obsessive rating of false negatives and positives, it is amazingly rare that I get spam slip into my inbox (maybe one message a week from ~100/day received, while my spam folder gets about 10/day).