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Friday January 30th 2004 02:13 PM PST

Something has to be said about how good the spam recognition is in Apple's Mail software. I've honestly been flooded by junk mail. Because of my habits with catch-all accounts, I've got close to 100 different emails that i've actively used, and any address at any of my domains finds it way to my ONE box. So that one box is checked using OS X and Apple's Mail. Apple made claims that their recognition is 99% effective. Well it EASILY holds up to this claim. I have to admit i've trained the software well with where it should put certain pieces of mail. I've got rules that will process before the Junk rules are checked, and i've found the number of false positives has dropped to nothing. I was skeptical at first to just delete everything in my junk box, but now i will not hesitate to delete 5000 messages without looking at them. I also must say that i found a nice solution to the spammer problem i had. They CC a large number of people each time they send out spam. The AOL mailer daemon will respond saying that the message was not able to be sent because the addresses are not valid, but it will include ALL the addresses. So slowly but surely i'm actually accumulating a set of valid email address that i could (if i were so inclined) send out my own wave of junk mail. :)

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Don't even do that, just publish all the valid e-mail addresses on a web page so all the spiders and robots can harvest them. ^_^

Posted by: Koganuts

Apple's mail app in my book is about 45% effective. I get about 2500 spams a day and it picks up less than half even though I've trained and retrained the shit out of it. I think we just need a new email system that's based on trusted networks. This open ass to the wind sucks ass. I'm switching back to Entourage today from Mail to give M$'s filter another go.

Posted by: Jason D-

The ten or so junks that come to me a day ALL get through the dang filter. Is it just because it needs the numbers you guys get to learn? And Mail.app tends to mark all the messages in my inbox as unread every so often. (It may all have to do with FileVault, which paranoid and silly me turned on a while back and now can't turn off.)

Posted by: Angelo