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Simplify the deletion of Mail's junk mail
Authored by: joh on Feb 20, '06 01:43:34PM

Not to belittle that hint, but I would recommend to save your spam (compress and burn a cd, or whatever) before deleting it. First, if you're getting lots of spam, you might have one or more "good" messages filtered and you may notice that too late. Second, your very own spam is actually a resource -- it shows who is spamming you with what kind of stuff and this may help you at some point in the future to train spam filters. So, don't outright delete your spam. Keep it somewhere, it's not valueless.



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Simplify the deletion of Mail's junk mail
Authored by: robg on Feb 20, '06 03:17:45PM

I receive on the order of 20,000 spams per month. The vast majority of these, thankfully, are trapped at the server. But still, about 100 or so a day make it through to my machine. As noted in the hint, I review them all for false captures and reclaim those, so there's no fear of losing a good email.

And I use every spam I get to train our filters; I copy them to the spam server's learning folder prior to deletion.

-rob.



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