Several months ago I got annoyed at how badly their spam filters operate, so I decided to try out something. I set my ii-Email to forward through to an address hosted here (@chasm, somewhere way down in the depths), which is provided by work.

Since I use Thunderbird for most of my mail, it also does it’s spam thing, and learns really quickly and easily what is and isn’t junk. After about 3 weeks of using it, I was confident in it enough to set it to automatically move out email it thought it was spam to another folder.

There was a reason for this, of course: I could compare inboxes.
Also since my email was being stored at both ends, I could be confident that it wasn’t being lost in the second forward.

Periodically (almost every day-ish), I would log into my iiNet webmail and clear out the legit emails that I had received at the chasm end. I don’t think I’ve lost any yet.

In the several months since I set this up (I think I did it early June), I’ve received 11 emails through that were spam.

Compared to my iiNet email, where I’ve received over 1100 (14.2 MB worth) in the last 6 weeks.

Now I definately think that there are better spam management softwares out there than anything made by the same company that makes Norton Antivirus, but work uses a free one.
Ironic huh? ii pay lots and lots of money for a system that rarely works, work pays nothing, and it works perfectly.