[pmmail-list] [mkc] thunderbird?

[Dean Boulding]

Thunderbird's junk detector can automatically whitelist one of your 
address books, so something like this should be easy.  In fact, that may 
be the answer, now that I think about it.  I believe there is a 
parameter to vary the ratio of false positives to false negatives, which 
by default is very biased against false negatives.  I assume this is 
because they are aiming at a mass market, and unsophisticated users 
would be very unhappy to miss important emails.

But...
I'm still absolutely amazed at how well POPFile works, even with the 
newer messages which are supposed to fool Bayesian filters.

Dean

John Bridges wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 07:02:34 -0400, Mike Kilroy wrote:
> 
> 
>>GOSH, that was my next question!  With approx. 3000 spams a day, I NEED a good filter
>>
>>Guess we can still use POPfile with it, no?
> 
> 
> I get around 19,000 spam messages a day on average, and that number keeps
> growing (yes that's NINETEEN THOUSAND, to one mailbox)
> 
> I use SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (beta, although perfectly stable).
> 
> I created a whitelist out of all my past PMMail messages (just searched for
> the From: and To: lines, and cleaned up the results). So it's impossible for
> me to get a false positive for any message sent by someone I've ever emailed
> before.
> 
> I'm pretty happy with the results.  I might get between 3 and 6 SPAM messages
> each day (that make it through). Most are easy to see since they use random
> names, and are often duplicates.
> 
> No matter what anti-SPAM software you use, I STRONGLY RECOMMEND CREATING A
> WHITELIST FROM PAST EMAIL!
> 
> 
> 
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