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A bit of a sidenote but: what is a gmail alternative that really works? For instance, spam handling is worse in pretty much any alternative I've tried.

I'm interested in EU-based products first. But they need to handle spam well!

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I recommrnd Fastmail! Switched to them like 3 years ago. They Are perfect for me. I use masker emails for my domain so i never get spam

My company used to be on Fastmail. Spam was definitely a problem. It's not EU based either if that matters (although the relevant servers may be).

It's hard to judge but for me Fastmail seems to be pretty great at detecting spam, at least it always ends up in my Spam folder. False positives are pretty regular, so far never actual human written emails though, only newsletters, but still. Overall for me a set and happily forget kind of service. Support is decent too.

I'm a happy user of Fastmail. It's a paid service (€5 per month) but that comes with higher standards. The webmail has been pretty good. Barely any spam to speak of (once a week?), even though I have various email addresses in public places.

Another satisfied Fastmail user. We don't pay a great deal for it and the service has been very good. Be the customer, not the product.

Protonmail works in the sense that I can receive and send emails, it's always up when I need it. I don't know how much of the spam is not arriving or being filtered.

Do you have any deliverability issues when sending mails? I find Protonmail interesting and I like the clean UI, but I worry my mails may end up in recipients' spam folder more often.

Not the original poster. I use all three Proton domains (pm.me, proton.me, protonmail.com) and haven't had an issue so far.

I have not had any issues so far.

I haven't had problems with proton domains (i mostly use pm.me) but i also registered my personal domain to be handled by proton and that works well

How do you defined "handling spam well"? What problem did you have with the alternatives you've tried?

They definitely do have regular false positives for me, marking something as spam that isn't. Never personal email though.

I use Apple's hosted domain service, which is included in the price of Apple One we were already paying for. It's been surprisingly great since I switched my domains to it.

mxroute is pretty good with their spam handling

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