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ket on Oct 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Homely Mutt

What are the advantages of using gmail as your server rather than, say, installing your own postfix server on some linode?

nicksergeant on Oct 1, 2012 [–]

Gmail has largely solved the spam problem. Configuring spam filters and the like is still a PITA with your own server.

dmortin on Oct 1, 2012 | [–]

Yep, collabrorative filtering works very well. It's very rare I have spam in my Gmail inbox.

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