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An AppleScript to forward spam to the FTC via Mail
Authored by: TigerKR on Feb 27, '06 11:06:15AM

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RBL effectiveness
Authored by: sjk on Feb 27, '06 06:58:44PM

Regardless of arguments and politics about RBL, it's working quite effectively with server-side filtering for identifying most spam I receive. Messages are tagged with X-RBL-Warning headers and get dumped directly to a junk mailbox where I've rarely found false positives. And Apple Mail's junk filter has been reasonably effective with handling the small remainder of non-RBL spam.

I've been more satisfied with that server/client combination than when all spam filtering was handled on the server. It's turned out to be easier junking a couple false negatives a day than it used to be dredging through the junkbox looking for significantly more false positives that mistakenly ended up there. I'm still undecided whether it's worth using JunkMatcher to do a more thorough job catching what Mail's junk filter misses.



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