On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, [email protected] wrote: } again, i'm pretty sure the filter does not train based on the from address
That is correct. Any good junk/spam filtering software ignores the from address, as there is nothing in that field that is useful for accurate spam filtering. In fact, any software that *does* use that address will actually increase the amount of false positives since many spammers use your own address [thankfully, we configured mail servers won't allow you to ever see that type of spam, but there are more poorly configured mail servers than well configured ones]. } this is pretty concrete: } } <http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/samplecode/LSMSmartCategorizer/Introduction/Intro.html> Yes, it is. Junk filtering in Mail.app is more than marketing speak. :) /vjl/ _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
