Tech Friday: How do you know if you have a SPAM problem?
Posted By RichC on January 10, 2025
Elon Musk’s verson of email called Xmail can’t come soon enough for a lot of Google Gmail users and as a way to dump my 70,009 Gmail SPAM collection. 😊
Although did remember an older Windows 95 X Mail (logo above and insecure link) and I was hoping for some kind of improvement from ProtonMail … had an interest in their privacy, security and encryption … but it has become cumbersome and was even down for an hour in December.
I’m not relying on it at the moment, but I did think it might be worthy of replacing my work address. Unfortunately after trying to port over my CPPNET.com email 
address to the Proton servers, there was an issue since other addresses still need to remain on my Linux mail server (never indicated on checking their servers list). So I’m back to Roundcube for CPP emails and my original USA.net subscription email (once upon a time it was a free perk with my American Express Small Business account — 
that was 25 years ago! Wow, time flies.)
Still for personal and advertising addressed emails I’m stuck with Gmail. I’m still using the free version since Miami University finally closed my Workspace account (from my grad school and teaching days). the free version and I sort of put up with their “scanning my emails” and tossing marketing in my way. But for now, it is wait and see what Elon Musk and his crew comes up with — although something tells me nothing is really going to change. 😉
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