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Congrats to the team! This might be the reminder I needed to finally subscribe. Gmail’s spam filter has been nonexistent for the past month (300+ clearly spammy email reaching my inbox).

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I'm a happy Fastmail customer, but I would not recommend them on the basis of their spam filter. It's competent but makes at least a few mistakes a week. Google's was better for me.

I had the opposite experience. Gmail's filter was useless, letting in tons of spam, and then putting normal emails from family members, also using gmail, and who I have emailed many times in the past, into spam. Fastmail's is drastically better for me.

For me Gmail takes way too much legitimate email and sends it to spam. Fastmail strikes a better balance by sending little ham into the spam box, but letting a little bit of spam into the inbox.

for me both are far better than o365, which even marked legit business mail (o365 invoices :)) from microsoft itsef as spam!

I'm generally content with fastmail, but the webmail would need some polish. (and by polish I do not mean the user hostile react rewrites MS and Google are pushing)

What are you unhappy about with the webmail?

From the top of my head:

- Hungarian translation is not the best (they provide it, thus I use it). It has missing parts, and sometimes problematic mistranslations. Localization (date format and date conventions) is sometimes incorrect in the calendar.

- Some calendar workflows are clunky and unintuitive.

- some other similar UX papercuts (don't get me wrong, others have theirs too, but it would be nice if fastmail would be better).

- The most annoying: if I'm logged in I need to open a private browser session to see their main site, as it instantly redirects me to the app, and I cannot access resource from within.

Been using fastmail for years, and I'm very happy with their spam filter. Never had spam in my inbox, and very rarely see non-spam in the spambox.

I make liberal use of the masked email feature. Love Fastmail

I just had the reverse problem - gmail decided to stuff half of the mail for 2 days into spam, and I had to spend half an hour manually extracting them back. No idea what happened, most mails were from previously known good addresses. That said, I rarely get spam that's not intercepted nowadays, no more that 1-2 per day.

I can’t speak to the spam filter itself, but having masked emails goes a long way to sandboxing potential spam sources. I’ve been quite happy with fastmail.

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