Gmail significantly improved the email spam situation for everyone by aggressively pushing email security standards like DMARC/DKIM/SPF [1]. This came at the cost of basically no longer being able to selfhost your own email server though.
I agree with the other commenter, I use Fastmail and I get very few spam emails, most of which wouldn't have been detected by gmail either because they're basically legitimate looking emails advertising scams. I have a Gmail account I don't use and it seems like it receives about the same amount of spam, if not more.
I agree with the other commenter, I use Fastmail and I get very few spam emails, most of which wouldn't have been detected by gmail either because they're basically legitimate looking emails advertising scams. I have a Gmail account I don't use and it seems like it receives about the same amount of spam, if not more.
1: https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/email-security/dma...