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Spam, I got a lot of it on fastmail and even though I kept flagging it as spam, it kept coming.

The mobile client, I really like the gmail iOS client. I think fastmail was better than the native iOS mail client, but I just really like the gmail one.

Google docs, photos and drive are nice additions, but it’s mainly the first two.

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I keep reading about the spam problem. Can't confirm that for me. I extremely rarely get spam in my inbox while on gmail I got about the same amounts but also quite a few false positives.

The mobile client: I don't know the iOS client but urgh. The Android FM client is pretty lame :D Luckily, I rarely use it.

I use next cloud for all docs, images, etc. and neither has an integration so that's a toss-up for me ;)

It's the false positives that make me worry the most about Gmail :\ I sometimes get personal emails from family shoved in the spam folder - they're in my contact book, they're starred, they're relatively frequent emailers in both directions... but still, in to spam you go.

The false-positives are usually so absurd, that I have to assume they have no boundaries for their ML-whatever. If it says spam because it has decided that contact books are only worth 90% positive signal, then into spam it goes. ML > any hard-coded rational decisions.

When you say gmail, do you mean gmail or g-suite? Because my gmail gets a lot of spam, but my g-suite doesn’t.

I meant gmail. I didn't even know there were differences like that between them. I think when I switched to FM, G-Suite was business only.

I think it’s mostly still business, but a lot of the things I do business wise correlate with a lot of things I do personally, so it blends together rather nice.

Now I prefer the mix, I can certainly understand people who prefer the separation.

Postini was great. Google bought them out, but it seems it’s not as good as it used to be in filtering out spoofed SPAM. Corp Gmail is more targeted for S.P.AM. due it it being a business account.

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