Spam and the filters - the agony and the agony...
I upgraded to Eudora 6 awhile back, and I've been mostly happy with it. The spam filtering seemed mostly good as well, until recently - when I started noticing that scads of good mail was being junked. I spent the last week or so fishing things out of the junk folder, until it finally dawned on me that maybe there were settings for this. Lo and behold, there is.
It turns out that Eudora assigns a "spam ranking" to each incoming mail - a number between 0 and 100. There's an option to set the minimum ranking before having something get junked, and that was unset. I'm hoping that setting that will result in fewer lost messages.
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Re: Spam and the filters - the agony and the agony...
[Troy] March 18, 2004 20:14:43.000
Comment on Spam and the filters - the agony and the agony... by Troy
I use Spambayes at the office, and Mozilla ThuderBird at home. Both of these do good jobs of spam filtering and they are trainable. If I find an item mis-sorted, I just press the junk/not junk button, and the program learns. FWIW, I always found Eudora to be a pain. From your other posts, you seem to be having some pain too. Check out Mozilla stuff :)
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[A.C.] March 18, 2004 20:19:37.000
Eudora 6.0 was a huge disapointment to me after being a fan of earlier releases. I've not regretted switching to Thunderbird.
Re: [Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants] Spam and the filters - the agony and the agony...
[Check all IMAP folders in Thunderbird] March 19, 2004 13:58:05.337
Comment on Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants Spam and the filters - the agony and the agony... by Check all IMAP folders in Thunderbird
One annoying thing in Thunderbird is that it doesn't automatically check all IMAP folders for new mail, it does for local folders, and you can go and enable each folder check checking, but thats a pain.
But, you can enable the "hidden" feature by editing/adding a user.js entry:
Voila. Now if only it could "only quote selected text" on reply...