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I disagree vehemently on the difficulty of running your own email server. I have been running a pretty standard postfix + dovecot email setup for myself and close family for almost a decade now.

It definitely is necessary to once set up proper DKIM, SPF, DMARC and TLS by default (thanks to Let's Encrypt), but after that the setup is pretty much hands-off.

Spamassassin filters my spam down to at most one mail a day, and that's usually because they have some new type of topic not caught by the previous bayesian filter.

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eeeeeeeeeeeee7y ago

I'm pretty sure FastMail uses Spamassassin, so why is an email company so bad at configuring that software? Their spam filtering is simply not nearly as good as Gmail, it's not even close.

I used Spamassassin back in the day and it was effective for a bit, and then pretty much all spammers figured out how to avoid it.

Also, I'm not talking about the obvious VIAGRA large caps spam, which I think is fairly easy to solve. But spam has become much more nuanced and Gmail is the best at it, and the false positive rate is still amazing.

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eeeeeeeeeeeee7y ago

I'm pretty sure FastMail uses Spamassassin, so why is an email company so bad at configuring that software? Their spam filtering is simply not nearly as good as Gmail, it's not even close.

I used Spamassassin back in the day and it was effective for a bit, and then pretty much all spammers figured out how to avoid it.

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