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SPAM filters not working so well lately?
16-11-2007 8:18 AM
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16-11-2007 8:47 AM
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Re: SPAM filters not working so well lately?
16-11-2007 9:09 AM
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A good proportion of the extra spam that I am receiving has all of the words in the subject joined together as one long word (no spaces).
As DSPAM concentrates on the subject lines, it might be confused into declaring the spam 'innocent'.
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16-11-2007 10:26 AM
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16-11-2007 10:48 AM
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Quote from: jelv I'm finding the inbuilt junk filter in Thunderbird is working better than the Plusnet filters
I haven't been doing the sort of careful monitoring that jelv does but I do find the Thunderbird Junk Mail Controls excellent. I've been using them for ages now and have detected almost no false positives. The training was quick too. For me, there is no point in using the PN spam filters - I would rather have my own close control.
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16-11-2007 2:59 PM
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Please make it a priority to fix the large number of junk mails that are arriving in my Outlook junk folder. This is, of course in addition to the 356 in my Squirrel mail spam folder received during the past week, but the former Outlook ones not caught by the filter.
Can someone from PlusNet say what they believe the problem is?
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16-11-2007 3:37 PM
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16-11-2007 4:35 PM
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Any yes Thunderbird does spot them better it seems than PN.
Re: SPAM filters not working so well lately?
16-11-2007 4:49 PM
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Are you sure it hasn't gone into the Junk Mail folder (or another folder set up in Thunderbird's processing rules)?
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16-11-2007 4:59 PM
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Certainly not the junk folder. I do not understand thr part of your post that i have made red. All the likley folders I have have been examined.
Quote from: spraxyt That sounds like something that happened after the mail was downloaded to Thunderbird.
Are you sure it hasn't gone into the Junk Mail folder (or another folder set up in Thunderbird's processing rules)?
Re: SPAM filters not working so well lately?
16-11-2007 5:18 PM
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What I meant was rules like
If To contains Alice move to Alicemail folder
If To contains George move to Georgemail folder
If From contains mycbc.gov.uk move to Council folder
However hopefully you don't have a final line like
If To contains * delete
where * means anything else?
Or a blacklisting list?
Note: these aren't meant to be real Thunderbird rules, I don't use that application. Just generic examples.
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