On 07/04/2009 06:58 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
The missus uses Thunderbird, and as near as we can tell, its spam
filtering is crap. She found false negative rates approaching 50% (half
the actual spam was flagged as good) and false positive rates
approaching 10% (one out of ten good emails was flagged as spam).
I've been running SpamAssassin for about two months now, and it catches
about 99% of spam with only four (not four percent, just four) false
positives...
Did you know that tbird has a built-in way to use SpamAssassin? It's in
the Junk Settings tab of each individual mail account -- you get to choose
between SpamAssassin and SpamPal (which I've never heard of before).
I've never used it so I can't comment on how well it works, but you might
check it out and let us know what you think.
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