On 2010-07-08 10:35 , Jonathon Kuo wrote:
Okay, I clicked on 'Reset' and removed my hard-coded 'spam' rules in Mail Prefs, and restarted Mail. Daily I get bucketloads of spam, many from the same sources. Take one for instance:<[email protected]> These guys send me a dozen spams a day (not all at once), so much that I had made a rule for them. So now, in come these spams, and I diligently click the "Junk" button on each of them, but Mail never learns. In come more of these spams, and I'm still clicking "Junk" for each one. How many times does it take before Mail believes me that these are spams? Why would it take more than once? It certainly behaves like it merely moves the email to the Junk folder, but no record or tabulation is kept. That's why I was wanting to look at the plist or wherever it keeps the spam info.
i would keep the hard rules; they are more reliable than the spam filter for what they work on
from what you've said it's hard to know why it's not recognizing some of your incoming mail as spam (though Vince has a couple of good hunches) but again, spam recognition is not based on the sender's address, it's based on "latent semantic analysis", which is a clever and trainable but fallible filtering technique that attempts to discern spammy "meanings" in email; it is very complex, you can look it up if you want to delve into the theory, but the upshot is that there will be no "log" that says what was filtered and why -- the info is kept a database and the Reset button literally resets that database to its default state, and you then try to train it and see how it goes; in my experience, the fancy theory does not yield superb results
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