Recap
I haven’t done much (OK, I haven’t done anything) for almost a month. Some of this is because Spam has been out of my mind. I’ve migrated off of my e-mail addresses that get all my spam and run those e-mails through both the Pobox.com and GMail filters before they hit my inbox. The bottom [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Spam Already Waiting – The Numbers
I like stats, so with Spam already being held for me by Yahoo and Google I decided to take a look at it and release it for deliver. First I reset the spam filters in my Apple Mail and Thunderbird e-mail clients on my Mac. I also set both clients to keep there messages in [...]