Hello Jan, On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 12:25:58 +0200 GMT (10/08/2003, 17:25 +0700 GMT), Jan Oetjen wrote:
> You are true - i personally find it an unusable way to supply the > mailserver itself with a mail filtering logic when mail is deleted > depending on the settings. This is how GMX does it: All mail considered spam is sent to a Spambox, so I don't download it (I only download what is in the Inbox). Once a day, I get a summary of all new mails in the Spambox into my Inbox. If there is anything in the summary that I think might not be spam but was nevertheless sent to the SpamBox, I open my account by way of web interface, and read the mail in the SpamBox. If it is not spam, I click on "don't treat as spam", it will be sent to the Inbox, and I donwload it at next mail check. The filter learns the Bayesian way, per user. If a spam mail was not indentified as spam and I received it, I can go to the webmail interface (I don't delete mails from server, so it will still be there), and click "treat as spam". It will be sent to the SpamBox, and the filter learns. There are also manual white lists and black lists that each user can maintain. As with all spamfilters based on Bayesian algorithms, it took a while until it worked to my personal satisfaction, but I haven't needed to open the web interface for some time now. I think this is rather perfect: I don't need to download spam, but I still have control and don't depend on the ISP's spam identification settings. I believe this, and not what AOL does (namely just deleting what *they* think is spam), is what Dierck had in mind. I just cancelled my first email address (since 1995; I had kept for nostalgic reasons), because the provider doesn't offer a server-side spam filter function, and I received almost all my spam through that account. Apart from the annoyance, I'm also on dial-up. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Who was the first person to look at a cow and say," I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out"? Message reply created with The Bat! 2.0 Beta/1 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 2.0b1 | "Using TBBETA" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
