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Re: Spam, Spam, Spam.... What To Do?

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superhappyfuntime writes:
> On 2011-05-19 13:47:11 -0400, TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> said:

>> Junk mailbox. As an example I recently received 16 instances of the
>> same spam email, the instances each sent a few minutes apart, which
>> were not recognized as spam. It appears that the senders of the spam

You do mark each one in your e-mail as "junk" and move them to
the junk folder, right?  The spam filters in Mail.app need to
be trained.

> That will happen with all mail clients, it's the mail client. To get
> rid of it, you can download a program like SpamSieve, which works with
> all mail clients to filter spam. I hope this was of use. 

Well, most need to get trained.

I use a couple of layers, though - my mail is filtered at the
*server* level before Mail.app ever sees it.  The server knows
how to recognize a lot of spam, mark it as junk and move it to
a Junk folder.  When it does that, the server adds some "junk"
tags to the headers - which Mail.app also recognizes and uses
to help maintain its own training.  And the other way around -
anything which Mail.app marks as junk (or which I do by hand)
and moves to the Junk folder -- the server recognizes that anything
in the Junk folder is considered spam and it helps train the
server's filters, too.

Server-level filtering is pretty much essential if you are
using mail clients which don't do any filtering, like an
iPhone.  Mail.app on the desktop, therefore, helps keep
training the servers to make things better for all my mail
clients.

All that said, I probably get 50 spam messages a day, all
filtered to the Junk folder and marked automatically as
spam.  And about 1 every few days which goes completely
undetected and into my Inbox.

FWIW, there's been a surge of spam lately.  The last week
or two have been worse, at least for me, than it's been
for a while.

-- 
Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks.  The rest gets trashed.

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Spam, Spam, Spam....  What To Do? TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2011-05-19 12:47 -0500
  Re: Spam, Spam, Spam....  What To Do? heron stone <heronDO@gendo.net> - 2011-05-19 12:19 -0700
  Re: Spam, Spam, Spam....  What To Do? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2011-05-20 19:42 -0500
  Re: Spam, Spam, Spam....  What To Do? Howard.not@home.com (Howard) - 2011-05-22 19:06 +0100
  Re: Spam, Spam, Spam....  What To Do? TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2011-05-24 22:23 -0500
  Re: Spam, Spam, Spam....  What To Do? superhappyfuntime - 2011-07-09 20:53 -0400
    Re: Spam, Spam, Spam....  What To Do? BreadWithSpam@fractious.net - 2011-07-09 23:53 -0400
    Re: Spam, Spam, Spam....  What To Do? yourname@yourisp.com (Your Name) - 2011-07-10 17:38 +1200

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