Just in case someone wants to emulate this.
I get about 100 spams/day, and that rate has been approximately constant
for over 2 years.
I have spam assassin turned on at my ISP, and it shunts all spam
identified to a separate account <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. It makes virtually 0
false positives, and has about a 30% false negative rate. I then set up
my locations in PowerMail so I don't collect mail from this box while I
am on the road, and I check it every day or so when I am at home.
SpamSieve, after training, then identifies the rest of the spam, with
about a 1% failure rate (false positive, false negative both).
My filters are
1) Spam evaluate
2) If identified by spam assassin (identified thru subject), raise spam
rating to 100%
3) if to a known spam address, raise spam rating to 100%
4) if from is in address book, lower spam rating -100%
5) if spam rating is high
move to spam folder
don't notify new message
don't show in recent mail
move attachments to trash
Basically, I now have nearly 100% reliable spam ratings. When there are
errors, I can usually use spam sieve training to fix them. If spam
assassin gives a false positive, I can add that address to my address book.
Now I need an applescript that deletes everything in my spam box with a
single key-press.
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