The spam I’m getting is really low quality, most of the time its random letters that don’t form words and emails put together so badly no one ever would click on the link. If you’re going to start spamming and take the risk, at least do a good job of it.

I typically get about 100+ spam emails a day…

Well I used to. My old setup for receiving mail was to use my own mail servers, on my own servers, for my own domains. Like my todd at talkingdynamics.com email address, I used to use my server for my email, that way I can use my own domain names for my email, not some free domain like gmail.com

However, if you go to google.com/a (google apps) you can sign up for some google applications for business. One of those applications is email hosting.

Google let you point your domains’ MX records in your dns to their gmail server, they will collect all your email for your domain, and you can use them to send your mail to, so you effectively use them as your whole mail server solution, at no cost.

This way gmail acts as your mail server and you simply use outlook to collect your mail from the email pop server.

What this also does is trap spam at the gmail level, rather then it hitting your outlook, and then outlook sending it to junk mail or to your inbox.

I’m finding that gmail is filtering spam much better than what my outlook does, I think mostly since it’s an online service, it’s able to cross reference other accounts and look at what email is hitting other accounts hard, and it’s able to flag it as spam across the network, where outlook has to use some rating system to weight the email as spam or not.

Using gmail as your mail server is also a nice way to have webmail too, my old server has a web mail client, but the gmail client is much nicer, and I’ve setup a dns record to point to my email account. (gmail.mydomain.com). And as far as a webmail client goes, if you move servers you won’t lose your email, it’s hosted elsewhere.

Being business mail you can also add additional users to your account, it’s a very nice solution, it’s worth a look.