Hello Ian, Saturday, May 22, 2010, 4:17:51 PM, you wrote:
> G'day MFPA, > On Sunday, May 23, 2010, at 8:45:34 AM, you (MFPA) wrote: >>> Server-side is better anyway: No need to download all >>> the spam messages. M>> And, presumably, no way to rescue messages falsely categorised as M>> spam. > It is a major disadvantage of server-side spam filtering and why I > have disabled this with my ISP. > The big advantage of Mailwasher is that you get to see a list of the > messages available and you can preview them if you like. It is you who > then decides whether to download the entire message. If you do > inadvertently delete a legitimate message, you do have a recycle bin > where you can recover all or part of the message. If you cannot > recover the message body, you can at least contact the sender and ask > it be sent again. > I am not in favour of ANY system that classifies the messages and acts > on its own. I am currently in dispute with a client owing several > thousands of dollars. He uses Norton 360, and essentially you cannot > send him any e-mail that has a dollar sign in it, or refers to the > word dollar or any other terms that are part of an invoice. Norton 360 > automatically deletes them and he does not want to change any settings > because he wants it to work that way. Basically this way he claims he > never received anything. > Unfortunately, experience has shown that systems that automatically > classify mail and then download and file them away in a spam or junk > folder without any user intervention see the user rarely (if ever) > checking the spam or junk folder which is then automatically purged. > That being the case such systems are as bad as server-side filtering. > The user needs to be in control, and even then there needs to be some > capability of recovery. WOW!!! Thanks for everyone's input, this was all good info...!!! -- Best regards, Tim mailto:timh...@cox.net ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.23 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
