Drowning alive in Spam 9% ham, 91% spam AFTER two passes through spamassassin!

2008-07-10 11:06:17
i get way too much junk e-mail. my primary e-mail addresses have been in-use since 1997 (work) and 1998 (personal). each message passes through a round of spam filtering on the receiving server (where especially evil senders can be rejected before any data is accepted), and spamassassin on the receiving server, and then a much stricter round of spamassassin on the home machine. when the messages are opened for reading in thunderbird on linux, thunderbird makes a third pass of junk filtering -- and here we see that of the past 40,500 messages received (40,500 messages that passed through two layers of spam filtering as ham), 91% are still flagged as spam by the MUA. ouch. the tool that generates this performance summary of thunderbird junk mail statistics is Mnenhy.



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