On Jul 7, 2004, at 11:01 AM, listes wrote: > George Slusher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Please read my entire message. POPmonitor can delete messages on the >> server without affecting what has already been downloaded by your >> email >> client (e.g., PowerMail). You highlight the messages you want to >> delete >> (selectively) and click on the Delete icon (a trashcan). That deletes >> them from the server, not from any folder in PowerMail. > > ohyes. by hand.
Remember that the question was how to get rid of spam in the mailbox but leave the "good" emails on the server. It would be easy to leave all messages on the server after retrieving them, but the mailbox might fill up and then one would lose emails that were bounced. (If you have a business, a bounced email could mean a lost client.) However, that wasn't what the person asked. Can you tell SpamSieve to download all emails, check them, put the potential spam into a special folder, then delete ONLY those that are in that folder, leaving the good emails on the server? That shouldn't be all that difficult to program, but does the SpamSieve/PowerMail combination do it now? If not, it might be a good feature to consider. There was another spam filter around that would download all emails, delete them, then reload the good ones back onto the server for your email program to pick up. It kept everything until you deleted it or until a time limit was reached. This was a bit slow, as you can imagine, and the reloading process could screw up the dates and headers on the email. I wouldn't blindly trust SpamSieve. Don't be too enamored of statistical filters, even Bayesian filters. They are not perfect: that's what being "statistical" means: it essentially guarantees that there will be false positives, as well as false negatives. The filter says that an email is PROBABLY spam. It wouldn't be difficult to come up with a message that would trigger the spam filter but which would be very important. (E.g., a client has a new email address, so it's not on the white list/trusted sender list, but it has elements that would trigger the filter.) George Slusher Eugene, OR
