Comment by beej71

If you have a hosted website, check your provider. I have my domain at Dreamhost and they have IMAP included at my tier.

I moved off Gmail to them about 9 months ago and it's be good.

The worst part is that Dreamhost's spam filtering is abysmal compared to Google's. But my desktop is always on and I just keep Thunderbird running on it. TB's spam filtering is pretty good after training.

I figure some of the dedicated email hosting services do a better job with spam.