SMTP is the only mainstream mail protocol that leaves the end user in control. That must bug companies like Google something fierce.
I still run Outlook 2010 with Paul Graham's SpamBayes plugin. It's far from perfect -- a whitelist would sure be nice, and how hard can it be to automatically refrain from marking anything as spam if I've emailed that sender before? -- but the fact that I can train it myself and adjust its classification parameters covers a multitude of sins.
I've resisted a lot of peer pressure to use server-side email over the years, both commercial and FOSS. I fully expect to be using SpamBayes in 10 years, probably with a wheezing, clunking copy of Outlook in a VM.
I still run Outlook 2010 with Paul Graham's SpamBayes plugin. It's far from perfect -- a whitelist would sure be nice, and how hard can it be to automatically refrain from marking anything as spam if I've emailed that sender before? -- but the fact that I can train it myself and adjust its classification parameters covers a multitude of sins.
I've resisted a lot of peer pressure to use server-side email over the years, both commercial and FOSS. I fully expect to be using SpamBayes in 10 years, probably with a wheezing, clunking copy of Outlook in a VM.