Am 09.07.2010 um 09:26 schrieb Macs R We:
On Jul 8, 2010, at 9:35 AM, 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.
Dittos. Even if one supposes that the criteria is set such that
nobody gets banned after only one or two strikes, I never saw the
payoff occur even after dozens of strikes. And one might expect
that in the other direction (marking something Not Junk) just one
'Ham" should take somebody off the list, but it doesn't do that,
either.
If you move something out of the Junk folder the sender's address gets
added to the "recent recipients" list, which basically acts as a
whitelist as far as junk filtering is concerned.
And Mail *does* learn from what you mark as Junk. It does not care for
the From address, though. It's the content that counts (it looks for
patterns of words) and depending on how much mail you receive it can
take a while. Mine is nearly perfect meanwhile, though.
If you want source/address based spam filtering, do it manually by
adding a rule.
Jochem
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