<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br></div><div><br>On Aug 29, 2011, at 5:24, "David Sherman" <<a href="mailto:davidhsherman@insight.rr.com">davidhsherman@insight.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Gmail doesn't work for me. Some days, I get about 500 email messages with</span><br><span>400 spam messages. I could never get gmail to filter the spam properly.</span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023A3"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div>In all seriousness, you're the first person I've ever heard report anything even close to that volume of spam misses on gmail. You're sure you didn't turn off the gmail spam filtering, or that you're maybe classifying anything "I don't care about this email" as spam?<div><br></div><div>The only way I think you're going to get better filtering, IMHO, is to run your own instance of something like spamassassin and training it yourself. That takes work, patience, and some level of technical expertise to understand what SA is doing.<br><div><br></div><div>-rj</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>-----Original Message-----</span><br><span>From: <a href="mailto:colug-432-bounces@colug.net">colug-432-bounces@colug.net</a> [mailto:colug-432-bounces@colug.net] On</span><br><span>Behalf Of Stephen Potter</span><br><span>Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 6:41 PM</span><br><span>To: <a href="mailto:colug-432@colug.net"><a href="mailto:colug-432@colug.net">colug-432@colug.net</a></a></span><br><span>Subject: Re: [colug-432] Off site email hosting</span><br><span></span><br><span>On 8/28/2011 10:39 AM, David Sherman wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>I want to purchase an email account. My needs are:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>1. Mail come from a pop account. This is an individual account thus no</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>MX record.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>2. Spam filter that goes into a junk filer.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>3. Mail check every 30 minutes.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>4. Mail starts copy to your account and after testing then moves to</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>your account.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>5. Cost for 1 account of around $5.00 a month.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>6. I want to copy the email messages to Outlook 2010 on 2 machines and</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>later move to another email package</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I have looked at Microsoft Office 65 but for me there is no spam filer.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Does anyone know of a way I can do this?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>thanks</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>I guess what I don't understand from your requirements is why gmail isn't a</span><br><span>valid alternative for you?</span><br><span></span><br><span>-spp</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>colug-432 mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:colug-432@colug.net">colug-432@colug.net</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432">http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432</a></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>colug-432 mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:colug-432@colug.net">colug-432@colug.net</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432">http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>