AOL/Yahoo/GMail Spam Filters
There wasn’t much time for counting spam this week so I needed to do something simple. I forwarded my Pobox email email to 5 different addresses to compare the ISP spam filters. All these numbers are for the default filter settings without any additional training (if they support training) and received spam for 5 days. [...]
Apple Mail vs. Thunderbird
The past week was spent seeing how well Apple Mail and Thunderbird (Mac) handled junk mail. Both clients received the same email sent by my forwarder. Neither received any direct spam. Apple Mail flagged 371 out of 408 emails as Spam for a 91% success rate. There weren’t any false positives. Thunderbird trailed Apple Mail [...]
This Week in Spam
This week was spent comparing .Mac/Apple Mail and Thunderbird (on a Mac only). The setup had the spam filter off at my email forwarder with email forwarded to both my Yahoo account and my .Mac account. The spam filter at Yahoo was off so all mail passed through to my Thunderbird client. The .Mac filter [...]
There’s Theory – Then There’s Reality
When I set up 3 emails addresses my forwarder allowed I set them up with 3 tiers in mind. The top tier was an address I gave to friends, family and other humans. The second one was one I used for companies I did business with or trusted (over time “trust” became more loosely defined). [...]
This Week In Spam
This past week was spent getting used to the software, ISP’s and Spam filters. Here’s a summary… The only two places spam arrives directly from the internet are at my email forwarder and GMail. GMail Gmail (Google Mail) received 18 Spam e-mails over 5 days. There were not any false positives and no spam got [...]