[Web4lib] Webmail and the ocean of spam

[Maurice York]

I also have routed all my email address to a gmail account. It catches
hundreds of spam messages a week that our institutional filters don't
get, and very little gets through. Gmail also has address "masking"
now as well, so you can send messages and have them look like they're
coming from your institutional mail or any other account you hold (as
this one does). Not to mention many other features that make it the
best email program I've ever used. It's a beautiful thing.

-Maurice

On 2/15/06, Robert Sullivan <robert.g.sullivan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > And is there an email program that will handle huge quantities of local
> > stored mail without bogging down the way Tbird does?  (I want to
> > avoid microsoft products if at all possible).
>
> I have somewhat over 1 gig in Pegasus Mail on a 1999-era P550, and it
> works pretty well.
>
> However, when I switched home ISPs I migrated to Google Mail, which
> has a trainable spam filter and handles it so much better than the
> Outlook Web Access we now have at work I use Google for that also.
>
> I have a separate Gmail account for use on my site, and it catches
> hundreds of junk messages per day with few errors.
>
> --
> Bob Sullivan
> Schenectady Digital History Archive
> <http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/>
> Schenectady County (NY) Public Library
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Maurice York
Team Leader, Circulation and Reserves
Woodruff Library
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
mcyork at emory.edu