[pmmail-list] Ultra simple junk email filter

[Dave Saville]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:57:53 +0100 (BST), Dave Saville wrote:

>On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 16:09:48 -0400, Ralph Cohen wrote:
>
>>I've been collecting the few emails that make it through new junk mail
>>filter and once I have enough, I think I'll be able to add one or two
>>additional conditions to the new simple junk filter to make it at least
>>as effective and far more manageable and less processing intensive than
>>my older main junk mail filter which I'll eventually disable.
>
>Interesting idea - I just ran the following against my spam folder -
>well over 1000.
>
>grep ^^To: *.msg |grep -i "dave saville"
>
>And got no hits. So far so good.
>
>However, I then ran it down my trash folder, which does *not* contain
>any spam and got about 50 out of again roughly 1000 messages.
>
>So assuming legit mail got filtered earlier, then that's still a
>possible 50 false positives.

Silly me it's the other way around - of the 1000 messages of legit
mail only 50 *have* my name in the To:

-- 
Regards

Dave Saville
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