On 06/01/2010, at 4:53 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hello Nicholas,
On 05/01/2010, at 7:10 PM, Nicholas Pyers wrote:
On 05/01/2010, at 9:40 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Why would you need it? Apple Mail has inbuilt Spam / Junk filters.
Apple's Spam filters actually let a LOT of spam through and falsely
flag legitimate mail as junk :(
It relies too heavily on your own manually maintained Address
Book... If someone is IN your Address Book then the mail ISN'T
flagged as spam, even if it obviously is spam :(
Mail’s Junk Mail filter continues to learn every time it processes
an incoming message—whether or not you manually mark it as Junk (or
Not Junk).
Correct it's mistakes, and it learns! The more diligent you are in
training the filter, the more accurate it becomes.
I do semi-regularly do this on my main machine and always on my laptop
Shame the iPhone doesn't support Junk filtering :(
I have not had Spam in my Inbox for a very long time, it all goes in
my Junk Mailbox.
Daily I get about 5 on my laptop (from three different addresses, all
hosted on the server)
On my main machine, I can't even keep count... and most of them are
addressed to me FROM me :(
I do still check the "Junk" Mailbox before I empty it, just to be
sure.
Same... I check and empty it every month or so
Personally, with over 400 emails a day coming, I prefer using ISP
based spam filters, but if that isn't available, then SpamSieve
seems to the recommended tool
Mail can also check special headers inserted by a spam filter
running on your ISP’s mail server.
Many ISPs use server-based spam filters such as SpamAssassin or
Brightmail.
If such a filter identifies a message as potential spam, it tags it
by adding a special header to the message, such as X-Spam-Flag or
Received-SPF; you can see these by choosing View > Message > Long
Headers.
If a message contains this header, your ISP’s spam filter—which may
be more advanced than the one in Mail—suspects the message to be
spam. As long as "Trust Junk Mail Headers Set by Your Internet
Service Provider" is selected in Junk Mail preferences, Mail marks
such messages as Junk Mail.
My hosting company uses SpamAssassin from memory and it kills 95% of
spam before it even reaches my mailboxes... which is a good thing as
for some of my accounts I can collect it from up to four different
locations (and yes, I probably should move to IMAP rather than POP3,
but as I also have an archive of 20+ years worth of email IMAP becomes
impractical)
I have Trust Headers from ISP turned ON
--
Nicholas Pyers ([email protected])
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