Email hosting

SteveDallas · 11-10-2006, 11:42 AM

We've had a couple threads about web hosting... but not, I think, recently. And now I'm finding myself looking for something else besides Dreamhost.

I've been with them a number of years and I've been happy till recently. They definitely satisfied my very modest web hosting needs. (How modest? My biggest traffic comes when I like to a picture from here!) But my problem is with email. Their spam protection is just not cutting it. They use spamassassin, which is theoretically fine. But Dreamhost is about a year behind in their updates, and they don't implement any of the Bayesian functionality. I don't fault them for not automatically putting out every upgrade that comes down the pike--a practice that I frown on myself--but the state of the spam war has changed a lot in the last year.

Some customers have taken to forwarding all their email to gmail, and then forwarding it back, so it passes through Google's filter. Others have installed the latest version of spamassassin in their own accounts, and while this has a certain attraction, it's just way too much like work.

So, any thoughts on places with good spam filtering?

11-10-2006, 11:42 AM	#1
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	Email hosting We've had a couple threads about web hosting... but not, I think, recently. And now I'm finding myself looking for something else besides Dreamhost. I've been with them a number of years and I've been happy till recently. They definitely satisfied my very modest web hosting needs. (How modest? My biggest traffic comes when I like to a picture from here!) But my problem is with email. Their spam protection is just not cutting it. They use spamassassin, which is theoretically fine. But Dreamhost is about a year behind in their updates, and they don't implement any of the Bayesian functionality. I don't fault them for not automatically putting out every upgrade that comes down the pike--a practice that I frown on myself--but the state of the spam war has changed a lot in the last year. Some customers have taken to forwarding all their email to gmail, and then forwarding it back, so it passes through Google's filter. Others have installed the latest version of spamassassin in their own accounts, and while this has a certain attraction, it's just way too much like work. So, any thoughts on places with good spam filtering?

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