seanbonner: *my* e-mail is officially broken

January 22, 2004

*my* e-mail is officially broken

I walked away from my computer last night around 11 pm and came back this morning around 7 am to find over 100 e-mail messages waiting in my inbox. To get to my inbox a mail message has to beat the spam filters in Mac's mail.app (any that don't are flagged and put in a spam folder), AND the custom filters I have on my server. The server side ones are exclutionary, and look for words like "viagra" or "morgage" or "big fat cock" and e-mails with those words it puts into a folder on my server for me to sort through. OK, where was I?

Just over 100 messages in my inbox. Another 50 or so in maill.app's spam box, in my serverside catch all, another 120 or so. Final valid e-mail count? 12.

Over 250 messages last night, over 100 beating all my filters and only 12 of them were legit. Of those 12, 4 didn't make it though the filters and were caught somewhere along the line and almost lost.

Every day now I hear from someone who wrote me and I never got there e-mail. I'm spending over an hour on this every day and it's still not working. I think my @sixsite e-mail, which I've been using for over 8 years now is officially dead.

I just moved seanbonner.com to a new server and it's running Spam Assassin so I think I'm going to set up an account there and never give it out to a damn sole.

This is a trainwreck.

Posted by sean on January 22, 2004 09:22 AM | View blog reactions
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I found that re-training the Maill app didn't help a whole lot indeed. I'm going to switch over to Entourage and give that spam shit a try. Mail is pissing me off a lot lately. I love having it tied into my Address Book but I'm willing to ditch that for better spam filtering. And I heard that the new Entourage that's on it's way is pretty snazzy.

Posted by: Jason D- on January 22, 2004 01:05 PM

SpamSieve has been getting great reviews from people. People say that it has a 98 or sometime 99% success rate for them. It also gives you tons of stats about the Spam you've received. Unfortunately it's support for Mail.app isn't what it is for some of the other major e-mail clients for Mac OS X. They mention on the site what e-mail clients work with it.

I highly recommend it to you both.
http://www.c-command.com/spamsieve/index.shtml

Posted by: Stevie on January 22, 2004 03:28 PM

I use a bayesian spam filter that I train to learn what is spam. It works great after a couple days.

I use WinXP/Outlook, so my exact solution isn't for you, but I'm sure there's Mac bayesian spam filter that can be trained well.

Good luck.

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