What are you guys using for e-mail nowadays?

[Mr. Pedantic]

Yep... and that's what my inbox looks like every morning. I have about 100 SPAM messages, 10 SPAM messages the filter missed, about half a dozen messages meant for someone else, a couple of phishing e-mails, a few newsletters or marketing lists that someone signed up for using my address, and two or three of the e-mails might actually be from someone I know.

My hunch is that anyone else who has a five year old @gmail.com e-mail address that is only 6 or 7 characters long looks exactly like mine.

It's time for a new e-mail address. Something longer that doesn't end with @gmail.com, @outlook.com, or @yahoo.com to insure that it's not already on someone's system generated SPAM list.

I can honestly say this has never happened to me. I currently have 6 spam messages in the Spam folder dating back 1 month, and the last spam message GMail let through into my inbox was over 6 months ago.

Who do you give your email out to?

 

[ViRGE]

Paid hosting. They unfortunately lack the heuristic spam detection of Gmail, but they offer greylisting and the ability to select which (if any) DNSBLs you'd like to use.

 

[mikeymikec]

My own domains and I host my own e-mail entirely. I also have some free e-mail accounts. I check almost all of them in Thunderbird with POP.

The amount of spam I have received in recent years has gone down significantly. 5 years ago it was about 50-60 a day (most were caught by the spam filters), these days it's more like 5.

 

[JimmiG]

My Gmail address is still going strong after a few years. Best part is there's almost no spam, partly because I almost never share it with anyone online, and partly because of Google's excellent spam filtering.

I just went back and checked my old email account I was using before I switched to Gmail. There are currently 16,766 unread emails, going back to October 2011.

 

[ultimatebob]

My Gmail gets tons of spam, but virtually every single one gets filtered. I bet less than 5 per year make it to my inbox. I think you just got unlucky, or perhaps you overused your address. Yahoo email is good for BS stuff. Try Yandex. It's Russian, so the NSA can't read it. Well, not until you mail someone with a Gmail account anyway :^D

In my case, I used my Gmail address on my resume on monster.com a few years ago, and their e-mail list got hacked. I also used it to sign up for my MtGox account, and they got hacked as well. Both times I noticed a big increase in the amount of SPAM and Phishing e-mails I get. It seems that the MtGox hackers are a lot smarter, though, and know how to get past GMail's Spam filters.

 

[Anubis]

i have my own domain and a acount with Fastmail

Ive had the fastmail acnt for years and its ben flawless. i use it for my "official" email addy and use the one on my domain for other stuff like forums and whatnot

never really used gmail. only use it now because i have to (android phone)

 

[Triumph]

I'd like to get something new, as well. I've used Yahoo for years, and it worked fine for my "online transaction" account, the spam filtering works well, and it was pretty reliable. Until they changed it about a month ago. Some kind of java/activex interface now (I don't know what you call it), and it is slow as balls, and always hiccuping. Can't refresh inbox, can't open emails, it just sits there and spins like a bad Youtube video waiting to load. Operation timeouts all the time.

My other account is a school account hosted by Gmail. Gmail sucks. I cannot stand the interface. I only use this account because of longevity and family/friends know the address. But god, Gmail sucks. How do I sort by sender? By subject? How do I search subject line only? Message body only? There's probably a way to do these things but it is not the way I want to do them. I much prefer an Outlook style interface.

 

[lokiju]

I was at the same point but then started using unroll.me and it's been much nicer since then.

It scans through your gmail and then gives you all the messages that are known spammers or subscriptions and gives you the option to unsubscribe which also blocks it. You can "add to roll-up" which takes everything you do that with and adds it all to a single email from unroll.me that gets sent once a day only. There's also the ability to "keep in inbox" which delivers it right away.

It also works for yahoo mail.

Give it a shot, it's free.

 

[MotionMan]

1. Main Personal (I own the domain);
2. Work;
3. Work backup (through my personal domain);
4. Personal Gmail;
5. Alternate personal Gmail;
6. Yahoo (Never use);
7. AOL (Never use);
8. Hotmail (Never use);
9. Excite (Never use);
10. iCloud/me.com (Never use);
11. Sudhian moderator/reviewer account (I mostly get product spam from small tech companies);
12. Undergraduate university forwarding address (Only use for university-related e-mails);
13. Law school forwarding address (Only use for law school-related e-mails);
14. First cia.com account (Never use);
15. Second cia.com account (Never use);
16. Anandtech-only Gmail account;
17. Sudhian-only Gmail account (Now mostly dead);
18. Roadrunner.com/Adelphia.net account (I had forgotten I had this. Never use).

These are all the ones I could remember/access. I would suspect there are more.

I hate webmail interfaces. I now use Mac Mail, though I miss Eudora.

MotionMan

 

[flexy]

All my emails, be it Gmail or "own" emails on domains are using POP.
I pull them using Thunderbird. I could never live with email where I have to log-in to a web interface.

I don't care about "spam", as an internet marketer I get TONS of spam every day it would be pointless to filter and delete.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

you could use one of those spam fwding account thingies so you know where your spam is originating from. or set them up with your own domain account.

you can go white list only.

you can sign up for a goatse email address

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Yahoo for personal (going on 16 years.)
Work uses Exchange.

Web interfaces, or the mail client in my iPad/iPhone. And Mail.app on my Mac laptop.

 

[BoomerD]

Gmail. If the NSA gets a kick out of reading my boring email...I don't really care. At least SOMEONE is reading it...

 

[gevorg]

yandex for personal mail, gmail for spam/forums mail

exchange for work mail

 

[ImpulsE69]

For personal email just Yahoo. It weeds lout 95% of the spam w/o issue. I really just dont see a need for anything beyond that.

 

[Triumph]

For personal email just Yahoo. It weeds lout 95% of the spam w/o issue. I really just dont see a need for anything beyond that.

Do you find the new interface very slow to load with lots of timeout errors?

 

[skyking]

My Gmail gets tons of spam, but virtually every single one gets filtered. I bet less than 5 per year make it to my inbox. I think you just got unlucky, or perhaps you overused your address. Yahoo email is good for BS stuff. Try Yandex. It's Russian, so the NSA can't read it. Well, not until you mail someone with a Gmail account anyway :^D

Ditto. I moved to gmail years ago, and have no issues with it. I still have some old accounts on the ISP and hotmail that I need to kill off.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Do you find the new interface very slow to load with lots of timeout errors?

No...I find it pointless that they changed it, but I haven't had any issues with it.

 

[I Saw OJ]

Been using gmail for years now and have very little spam in my inbox (1 or 2 a week).