alt Hacker NewsI have run my own mail server for years and I rarely see spam. I'm running a classic Bayesian filter as outlined in the legendary PG post "A Plan For Spam" and it works very well. I don't really get all the fuss about this issue. When I do see a piece of unclassified spam I simply classify it and continue. For me this is a far better tradeoff than having all my most private mail on some bigcorp server where any nerd can rifle through it.
> For me this is a far better tradeoff than having all my most private mail on some bigcorp server where any nerd can rifle through it.
You've functionally given yourself very little extra privacy because the vast majority of emails you send or receive will still cross through BigCorp servers (whether Google, Microsoft, Intuit, or other).
You can do the work to run your own mail server, but so few other people do that one end of the conversation is still almost always feeding a corporation's data lake.