Hi,
I have a problem with the Junk filter too.
It's too coarse, too global, and only works partially. A lot of spam slips
through. Also, conversely, I regularly get mails from friends that get
auto-filtered as junk, even when I've clicked "this is not junk" on previous
sendings.
Is one of the criteria for filtering the number of recipients? It would seem
so, as 3 of my friends recently mailed me a change of address, and bcced the
mail to a large number of their correspondents. All three mails straight to
the Trash...
Emailer used to have the possibility of entering "spam" domains directly
into the filter. I had a file containing over a thousand of them which I
found on the Net- and I believe this kind of file is readily updateable on
the Net too. It worked very well - nothing much got through...
This seems to me to be the best way of doing a spam filter - a long list of
spam domains (together with a "add address to spam list" control-click
feature), plus a series of actions based on keywords - maybe a list of those
too, with the same "add word to keyword list" type of feature. Taking it
even further, the Spam filter could be composed of modules/plug-ins,
referring to external text files, a "keyword" file, a "domain" file and any
others that one sees fit to add such "attachment bigger than.." etc etc .
I'm not a fan of the current solution - it doesn't work well. And I'm sorry,
but no amount of Applescript etc workarounds will do, really. IMHO it needs
rethinking completely.
Your views?
Cheers,
Ric
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