Grey listing has been far more effective at stopping spam than some half-baked AI garbage from Google.
Grey listing doesn't scale; not for me.
Which is more than the non spam emails that come on it :)
Works pretty well, if any of those addresses gets into some spam list I just block it (hasn't happened yet, though)
Just joking, I expect nothing from GMail team after I noticed that "block sender" option just puts emails in spam folder instead of deleting them on arrival.
I have accounts on Gmail and other services, and can say from close to a decade of use that Fastmail's spam filter is usually far better than Gmail's.
Occasionally it'll fall behind for a few weeks, but always seems to catch up or surpass Google's.
Over the last couple of months, for example, 100% of the spam I've received has come from Gmail. 0% from Fastmail.
With Gmail, you can configure an external SMTP server using "Send mail as" setting. Super convenient. Tons of mail services offer a generous free tier for personal use (e.g., Mailgun 100 emails/day).
It's not really worth paying just to send a few personal emails from @yourdomain.com each month.
Next time a legit email ends up in your spam folder, use this tool to figure out why: https://mxtoolbox.com/EmailHeaders.aspx
I've had a few cases myself, and it's always been the sender's fault.
