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Best email provider against spam? (lemy.lol)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I want to use my main mail address everywhere, even public places. But I doubt if I can guard myself against spam.

Is there a provider specialized in spam protection? Or at least good at it?

At last, given your experience, should I even do it?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I know it's "big evil corporate overlord", but Gmail is pretty damned good at it, really.

If I get spam from a company I recognize I gave my email to, I'll go in it and click the unsubscribe button and do it that way. Anyone else and I just mark it as spam and Gmail does a pretty good job of sending swaths of junk emails into the spam folder. I don't get much that slips through. Very occasionally I'll sign up for something I'm supposed to get an email for but don't, and I'll find it in the spam folder. If I think I'll want more emails from that company, I move it to my regular folder.

[โ€“] darreninthenet 1 points 9 months ago

Have a read on the trouble the 2600 guys have been having sending out emails for the next HOPE conference - the junk filter is also great at filtering out topics it deems unsuitable.

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