On 06/01/2010, at 5:29 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi Nicholas,
Have you thought of using a proxy email service to filter your email?
In this approach, a special server checks your email, runs a spam
filter, and holds back suspected spam.
You configure Mail to connect to this proxy server, rather than to
your ISP, to retrieve your freshly laundered email.
Examples of such services are Spam Zapper
(http://www.no-junkmail.com/Individuals.html)
and
SaferSurf’s Spam Guard (http://www.nutzwerk.com/english/safersurf/).
My email is currently hosted with pair.com
Their junk e-mail filtering system now uses a separate server
configuration to handle junk e-mail filtering and includes filtering
features such as greylisting, the popular open-source software package
SpamAssassin, and an open-source e-mail virus scanner, ClamAntiVirus.
They currently use a customized version of SpamAssassin 3.2.
http://www.pair.com/support/knowledge_base/e-mail/junk_e-mail_filtering_overview.html
and it does filter a ton of spam out for me... but enough sneaks
through and mail doesn't recognise it as such... and yes considering
it got past pair's system I probably can't bitch about Apple's system.
But I've seen others peoples mail through their normal ISPs mail
servers and I've seen that Mail handles spam that is apparently sent
to you from yourself or some else in your address book poorly :(
--
Nicholas Pyers ([email protected])
"Heaven on Earth?"
"No, Earth on Earth. The Just Earth!"
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