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Google mail account is free
Authored by: kiltbear on Apr 28, '09 10:21:21AM

If you don't mind being part of the Google Hive Complex, I find that gmail's junk mail filtering is excellent. I run at about 4 false positives a year (and never seem to be critical ones) and it misses about 1 junk mail per week. There are plenty of good hints on here about setting up Gmail as a very usable IMAP server with Mail.app and the iPhone.



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Google mail account is free
Authored by: kiltbear on Apr 28, '09 10:28:18AM

and it's free



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POP is free, too
Authored by: Makosuke on Apr 29, '09 02:32:23PM

I'm a little embarrassed to admit it, because I'm not terribly fond of the stranglehold Google has developed on a lot of things, but Gmail's spam filtering really does work well. Since they currently offer completely free POP access (with no ads), I've ended up routing all my mail through them purely for the spam filtering.

And it does work--maybe a half-dozen a month, down from hundreds. The critical false-positive rate is so low, as well, that I usually don't even bother to check.



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