I’ve been using Private Email as my email provider. I think it’s owned by NameCheap, my domain registrar. While I’m interested in a decent spam solution for my particular setup, I was just as interested in hearing how everyone else handles their spam. And their choices for getting email, as it turns out.

I’ve gotten a lot more responses from people running their own email servers than I really expected. Back in the day it was considered a herculean challenge, almost impossible for your mail to be accepted by the big 3 email providers.

From the other responses I’ve gotten so far, it sounds like most email providers, including mine, might have decent built- in spam filtering. Others are saying to look into aliases. both are sounding like good plays going forward.

Gmail’s excellent spam filtering was the main reason I had switched to them way back when. When I moved away from them, I just never looked at it, assuming spam filtering at the provider level to be non existent, and used Thunderbird’s junk mail filtering as it was a known way to solve the issue.

One of the problems with getting old is that you wind up getting blind to advances that have happened while you weren’t looking.

I’m a geek who drives a truck and I learned a good chunk of what I know, tech-wise, almost 25 years ago. I try to keep up, but falling behind on tech just kinda goes with the territory.

Do your job, Thunderbird!