kila_m - 7:56 pm on Feb 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

I've been using Gmail for a while now - I switched from hotmail because of their 2MB limit they use to have.

I normally get around 2000 spam messages a day as I have many domains and I forward everything to Gmail.

The problem is in Gmail you cant do:

keep everything in:

webmaster@mydomain.com

postmaster@mydomain.com

link@mydomain.com

and then reject everything like:

*@mydomain.com

to the trash.

Instead I am getting spammers guessing

dictionaryword@mydomain.com

and the spam comes through.

Also Gmail spam detection is bad, that a lot of my normal mail is getting confused as spam so I have to sift through 2000+ spam everyday.

I decided to switch back to forward back to hotmail and instantly I noticed they do a much better job.

So far after 3 days, the 2,000+ spam is down to 50 per day with 0 spam false detection.

Also because you can have "SAFE" lists the spam detection also reduces false positives unlike Googles Gmail.

Theres too much praise on Gmail, its nothing but a glorified 1GB hard disk space... I wont use it again until they offer better spam control.