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Fri, 09 May 2003
SpamBayes
Jon Udell's article on SpamBayes is making me jealous. I just switched off of Outlook because it was taking outrageous amounts of time to talk to my IMAP server. I settled on Mozilla Mail in part because of the bayesian spam filtering. Mozilla's bayesian filtering still seems to be letting spam through. Unlike SpamBayes, I can't get any insight into the scoring of words. It could be that my spam corpus is too small -- mail has to get past spamassasin on the server before it hits Mozilla. Maybe I'll turn off spamassassin and see what happens (Ulp!)...
There are a few annoyances that I have with Mozilla mail:
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- There's no visual status of whether a message has been forwarded or replied to.
- A signature is appended to every message - including replies.
You don't need Outlook to use spambayes, the real work is done in a common library that ships with a POP3 proxy and I believe a procmail filter as well. I'm running Moz mail through the spambayes POP3 proxy, but not filtering based on spambayes' analysis. Spambayes is still remarkably accurate (maybe a 2% miss rate), but though Moz was working for a while, it's now starting to decrease in effectiveness, sometimes as poor as 10% miss. I'm probably going to just start relying on the spambayes POP3 proxy. The main disadvantage of the POP3 proxy is that your management is now done outside of your mail client, that's the genius of the Outlook plugin (actually, PG mentioned that idea in his original article).
Posted by Gordon Weakliem at Fri May 9 09:35:15 2003
Posted by Gordon Weakliem at Fri May 9 09:35:15 2003
"There's no visual status of whether a message has been forwarded or replied to."
There's a text column with status that you can turn on. It's in the field chooser drop down at the far right of the fields in your message listing and it's called status. There's also a column called "Read" with a funny little green dot, but I find that far less intuitive.
Posted by tamaracks at Fri May 9 09:37:58 2003
There's a text column with status that you can turn on. It's in the field chooser drop down at the far right of the fields in your message listing and it's called status. There's also a column called "Read" with a funny little green dot, but I find that far less intuitive.
Posted by tamaracks at Fri May 9 09:37:58 2003
Thanks tamaracks.
Gordon, I'm using IMAP mail, so unfortunately the spambayes proxy doesn't help me.
Posted by Ted Leung at Fri May 9 11:39:33 2003
Gordon, I'm using IMAP mail, so unfortunately the spambayes proxy doesn't help me.
Posted by Ted Leung at Fri May 9 11:39:33 2003
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