Google Mail Good

You may remember that a while ago I set up four new e-mail addresses with the goal of seeing which service got the most spam, which then caught the most into a junk folder and what type of spam each one got.

I only published the e-mail addresses once on my blog and then never told anyone the address or put them on a webpage, used them to sign up or generally did anything with them again.

So any spam I get would have come from crawls of the blog for e-mail addresses or by sending to random addresses at the major providers and hoping for the best.

The worst service for getting spam and for putting it into a junk folder is Yahoo by a long way.

I’ve had nearly 200 spam messages - 180 of them have been caught by the Junk filters (which is pretty good) but 20 are still sitting in my main inbox.

Hotmail is the next worst with around 80 spam messages getting through - their junk filters are rubbish though - only 15 of the 80 made it into the Junk folder.

Lycos is next with 20 messages in junk and about 11 in my inbox.

By a VERY long way though - Google Mail is by far the best service for handling Junk Mail - I haven’t checked any of the services in about a month and Google Mail had NONE.

No junk e-mail at all - not in my inbox or the junk folder.

I don’t personally use any of the web based e-mail services as I have my own hosting service and get pop3/web e-mail through that.

The spam filters through Fasthosts are actually pretty good - combine that with Thunderbird and you’re well away.

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