Primary Email Provider Election '06!

[cyberdiva]

Originally posted by Cantello
I have recently started to use GMail as a kind of interface to Tuffmail, but I wouldn't want to miss TM's excellent anti-SPAM capabilities!

Can you say more about Tuffmail's anti-spam capabilities. I find Gmail's identification and isolation of spam to be very impressive. I've even seen messages advising people to run their regular email through Gmail just for the anti-spam measures. I know little about Tuffmail. How is it better?

[mikedk]

No one voted Bluehome yet, ah well, this is another other then.

[Javier]

Originally posted by cyberdiva
Can you say more about Tuffmail's anti-spam capabilities. I find Gmail's identification and isolation of spam to be very impressive. I've even seen messages advising people to run their regular email through Gmail just for the anti-spam measures. I know little about Tuffmail. How is it better?

I am not an user of Tuffmail, but I have tried it twice and none of then I have decided to signup for the paid service because spam did not work for me at all.

I guess this should be a problem with my language (spanish) and, therefore, the language of lot of the spam I received, because Tuffmail is not the only one provider that has showed this problematic behavior.

Anyway, Fastmail.fm, GMail and BlueHome.net seems to be able to correctly identify spam messages in my account (some time ago, EuMX was able to identify some of then, but not recently, I ignore the reasons that may be behind this problem).

EDIT: Another possible explanation is that all the spam messages I received have been previously filtered by Netaddress and, as such, are messages not identified as spam by Netaddress spam filtering (but this is also true for GMail, BlueHome.net and FastMail.fm).

[rmns2bseen]

Originally posted by mikedk
No one voted Bluehome yet, ah well, this is another other then.

My couple of Bluehome accounts are my favorites now as well, even though I don't really have what I consider to be one overriding primary account. So I'll vote BH as well. Er, "other".

[ankupan]

www.webmail.us

[The Storm]

Yahoo7 Australia

[Cantello]

Originally posted by cyberdiva
Can you say more about Tuffmail's anti-spam capabilities. I find Gmail's identification and isolation of spam to be very impressive. I've even seen messages advising people to run their regular email through Gmail just for the anti-spam measures. I know little about Tuffmail. How is it better?

It is just that I as a geek need more control over what is considered spam and what's not. With Gmail I had two false positives so far, which is not acceptable for me.
Tuffmail's approach with SpamAssassin, Bayes classifier and restrictions at SMTP level is much more advanced and so far I have not had a single false positive, and my native language is not english, either. I use a multi-step solution, that files incoming mails according to their 'spamity' which would not be possible with Gmail.

As usual, a combination of both would perhaps be the ideal solution for me, as Tuffmail's and Gmail's interface(s) leave some things to be desired.

Helge.

[drew]

Just now I use a free yahoo.se account as my main provider. It works with pop3 for free for us swedees.

I could change provider though. Yahoo is my fave now due to many considerations. Works with my mobile with pop3 and my desktop pop3 and it allows yahoogroups while other services see yahoogroups as spam.

The reason I don't use gmail are that my mobile fail to download pop3 from gmail due to some certificate lacking or whatever faulty thing that explain it.

The reason I don't use Fastmail is that they only have IMAP for free and that is costly on a mobile.

Bluebottle has a challenge and not many of my email friends like such.

hotmail doesn't have pop3 so I don't want to use them.

Nerdshack has chosen a nerdy name and he is one guy giving this service in his sparetime for his own money so all credit to his generous policy but it is too dependent on him to be my first choice.

But who knows, maybe yahoo have to change priorities if their money get less due to competition from the bigger guys.

[guest2k]

i'm using windows live mail @live.com for my primary account now. i don't need pop3/imap access, so that wouldnt be a problem for me now or in the future. and because i like the domain name too.

i stop using fastmail, because they're very unreliable for the past 6 months, look at their status page, you'll always see the words "server down/up" all the time. i lose a lot of emails from using the service since 2001. i've been using hotmail & yahoo since 1998 and never loose an email from them. so, paid = doesnt mean reliable.

i dont use gmail, because it won't let me create folders, and i dont like their "labels" method.

i stop using hotmail because i'm going Live now , i don't use yahoo anymore, because i dont like their new webmail interface

[Rip Slagcheek]

tuffmail

put my business mail there first, now my personal (from fastmail, not due to outages though that made the decision easy.)

[NJSS]

I use FM, there have been problems, but IMHO movement is in the right direction, and I like their interface.

My personal redundancy plan involves routing via POBox.Com, and copying to RunBox.

I also subscribe to Tuffmail, but am struggling to configure it to my liking.

[metal]

gmail + live.

Cancelled the first FM account months back and the last one was cancelled when I got live.com.

[chrisretusn]

Originally posted by lgnki
vote for which provider YOU PRIMARILY USE

I voted other, my ISP is my primary use account.

[Lawrence]

Tuffmail for me, with messages backed up to Gmail (and to my old Fastmail accounts until they expire).

[BinaryTB]

Tuffmail with backups to my webhost. Fastmail account for a spam bucket until it expires...three years from now, switched away in the last multi-day outage.