Hacker News Reader

> a dozen spam emails per day

Jesus Lord. I don't receive that much email in a week, legitimate plus spam combined.

I get what you're saying about independence, but using your own domain and pointing MX to any decent email service gets you 90% there with way less pain IMHO.

View on HN

How much of that difference is because your external email provider is silently swallowing the most egregious spam such that you don’t even realise they’ve done so? I suspect the folks who run their own are monitoring all the email with none being missed from their stats.

This. Most inbox providers filter a lot of mail -- spam as well as occasional legitimate email -- without the recipients ever finding out.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com