Re: Flagging email as Junk

2010-07-09 Thread Macs R We
On Jul 8, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Jonathon Kuo wrote: Okay, I clicked on 'Reset' and removed my hard-coded 'spam' rules in Mail Prefs, and restarted Mail. Daily I get bucketloads of spam, many from the same sources. Take one for instance: creditcardprocess...@asthemysticssuppose.com These guys

Re: Flagging email as Junk

2010-07-09 Thread steve
On 2010-07-09 01:26 , Macs R We wrote: Dittos. Even if one supposes that the criteria is set such that nobody gets banned after only one or two strikes, I never saw the payoff occur even after dozens of strikes. And one might expect that in the other direction (marking something Not Junk)

Re: Flagging email as Junk

2010-07-09 Thread Jochem Huhmann
Am 09.07.2010 um 09:26 schrieb Macs R We: On Jul 8, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Jonathon Kuo wrote: Okay, I clicked on 'Reset' and removed my hard-coded 'spam' rules in Mail Prefs, and restarted Mail. Daily I get bucketloads of spam, many from the same sources. Take one for instance:

Re: Flagging email as Junk

2010-07-09 Thread Andrew Brown
On 9 Jul 2010, at 10:54, Jochem Huhmann wrote: If you want source/address based spam filtering, do it manually by adding a rule. Is there any way of adding scripted buttons to Mail? I'd like Black-list this sender Move this message to [the box of my choice]

Re: Flagging email as Junk

2010-07-09 Thread Vince LaMonica
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, st...@paper-ape.com wrote: } again, i'm pretty sure the filter does not train based on the from address That is correct. Any good junk/spam filtering software ignores the from address, as there is nothing in that field that is useful for accurate spam filtering. In fact,

Re: Flagging email as Junk

2010-07-09 Thread Macs R We
On Jul 9, 2010, at 11:12 AM, Vince LaMonica wrote: That is correct. Any good junk/spam filtering software ignores the from address, as there is nothing in that field that is useful for accurate spam filtering. In fact, any software that *does* use that address will actually increase the

Re: Flagging email as Junk

2010-07-08 Thread Shawn Erickson
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Jonathon Kuo newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: Interesting, clicking on Reset didn't have any effect... Does anyone know where the file is that maintains the spam info? In what way doesn't it have any effect? -Shawn

Re: Flagging email as Junk

2010-07-08 Thread Jonathon Kuo
On Jul 8, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Shawn Erickson wrote: On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Jonathon Kuo newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: Interesting, clicking on Reset didn't have any effect... Does anyone know where the file is that maintains the spam info? In what way doesn't it have any

Re: Flagging email as Junk

2010-07-08 Thread Vince LaMonica
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Jonathon Kuo wrote: } button on each of them, but Mail never learns. In come more of these } spams, and I'm still clicking Junk for each one. How many times does } it take before Mail believes me that these are spams? Why would it take } more than once? It certainly behaves

Re: Flagging email as Junk

2010-07-08 Thread steve
On 2010-07-08 10:35 , Jonathon Kuo wrote: Okay, I clicked on 'Reset' and removed my hard-coded 'spam' rules in Mail Prefs, and restarted Mail. Daily I get bucketloads of spam, many from the same sources. Take one for instance:creditcardprocess...@asthemysticssuppose.com These guys send me a

Flagging email as Junk

2010-07-07 Thread Jonathon Kuo
Has anyone else had problems getting Mail.app (OSX 10.6.4, v4.3) to remember what you've flagged as junk mail? I get spam emails all the time, some from the same sources, and every time I diligently flag them as junk (by clicking on the Junk button in the toolbar). But lo and behold, the next

Re: Flagging email as Junk

2010-07-07 Thread steve
On 2010-07-07 11:26 , Jonathon Kuo wrote: Has anyone else had problems getting Mail.app (OSX 10.6.4, v4.3) to remember what you've flagged as junk mail? I get spam emails all the time, some from the same sources, i don't think the source Mail's spam filter uses the source email address as a

Re: Flagging email as Junk

2010-07-07 Thread Jonathon Kuo
On Jul 7, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Vince LaMonica wrote: On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Jonathon Kuo wrote: } Has anyone else had problems getting Mail.app (OSX 10.6.4, v4.3) to } remember what you've flagged as junk mail? Yes, when that happens, click the Reset... button in the Junk Mail preference