[willcosgrove]

Just chiming in with my one data point of personal experience: I've primarily used Gmail for all of my email needs. I heard about Migadu several years back and decided to migrate over and give it a try. I was shocked at how completely inundated with spam my inbox was. They had a spam filter with a tunable threshold and no setting on that filter worked well for me. Even on the highest protection level some spam was still getting through, and tons of my actual mail was winding up in spam; which made wading through my spam folder multiple times a day a requirement. Compare that to when I was using Gmail, I didn't even really think about spam. My non-spam email almost never ends up in the spam folder, and I basically never get unwanted email in my inbox.

So after about 6 months of dealing with spam, I went back to Gmail. It's a minor ordeal to move email providers. I'd be scared to move providers without being able to see how well their spam filter works.

As an aside, that would be a nice capability (no idea if it's possible): a way to have your email mirrored to another service to test it out.

Your mail service looks cool though! If I hadn't already been burned I would be more inclined to give it try.

[svjx]

Can you elaborate more on the feature you would like? I have no problem building a solution from scratch if it comes in handy.

Also we use Bayesian filtering, rbls, dbls, rate checks, the whole 9 yards. We haven't had much complaint about receiving spam. Ik you said you've been burned but I'd love for you to give us a shot so I can see what happens and possibly improve.

[willcosgrove]

I don't know if what I'm imagining is technically possible. But it would be cool to be able to have my email mirrored to two different services. One email address, email shows up in Mango Mail and my Google Apps email. Then I can evaluate Mango Mail's spam performance against Google's to see if it's good enough for my needs.

If I get up the courage to try again, yours will be my first choice :)

[svjx]

Hmm... so just off the top of my head, I'm thinking one service would have to forward to the other. Only problem with that is that the sending server would now be the relay and not the original sender. Since MX records only account for using one service, there would need to be some sort of intermediary to do this. Possibly have mail delivered to a common server which then sends it to both Mango and Google (giving each the same odds to detect spam).

If you do end up trying it, feel free to shoot me an email either at [e-mail] or my personal, [e-mail]

[BrandoElFollito]

> a minor ordeal to move email providers

I have never moved from Gmail (yet) but it must be sure difficult if you have a large mailbox.

They have strict rates on their API or IMAP so it takes time and a good software that accounts for the errors.

Didn't you have this experience