Comments on: How Apple Mail’s Junk Filter works http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/08/20/how-apple-mails-junk-filter-works/ Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:23:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: wolf http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/08/20/how-apple-mails-junk-filter-works/comment-page-1/#comment-10167 wolf Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:01:35 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/?p=50#comment-10167 3 questions: 1. can any of these tools be told to apply its "current configuration" against all mailboxes and subboxes per account regardless of date so that even older email can be "weeded/cleaned"? if mail.app can, it isn't intuitive. its not mentioned as a selling point anywhere. when dealing with years and years of mail, this is key. 2. does mail.app continue to learn/train itself from where it last left off? why not? why does apple not warn users that turning it back on will reset it if that is what happens? 3. what do i have to do (what plugin to get), to pull off a multi-parameter search from within mail.app so that i can find all mail: a) from xyz and b) to abc and c) after date nn and d) keyword "blah" in subject line? boolean and wildcard ala "google" would be nice too. * i find spotlight top to bottom another over-rated generally useless mac app so please exclude it from any comparisons/suggestions 3 questions:

1. can any of these tools be told to apply its “current configuration” against all mailboxes and subboxes per account regardless of date so that even older email can be “weeded/cleaned”? if mail.app can, it isn’t intuitive. its not mentioned as a selling point anywhere. when dealing with years and years of mail, this is key.

2. does mail.app continue to learn/train itself from where it last left off? why not? why does apple not warn users that turning it back on will reset it if that is what happens?

3. what do i have to do (what plugin to get), to pull off a multi-parameter search from within mail.app so that i can find all mail: a) from xyz and b) to abc and c) after date nn and d) keyword “blah” in subject line? boolean and wildcard ala “google” would be nice too.

* i find spotlight top to bottom another over-rated generally useless mac app so please exclude it from any comparisons/suggestions

]]> By: Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Mail.app’s Junk Filter is not like the others http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/08/20/how-apple-mails-junk-filter-works/comment-page-1/#comment-709 Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Mail.app’s Junk Filter is not like the others Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:49:36 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/?p=50#comment-709 [...] I’ve blogged two excellent descriptions of the way this filter in Apple Mail before, but today came across a third explanation with the imposing title, “Bayesian Nets, Latent Semantics, Despamming and other speculations”. [...] [...] I’ve blogged two excellent descriptions of the way this filter in Apple Mail before, but today came across a third explanation with the imposing title, “Bayesian Nets, Latent Semantics, Despamming and other speculations”. [...]

]]> By: Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » SpamSieve 2.4 http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/08/20/how-apple-mails-junk-filter-works/comment-page-1/#comment-452 Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » SpamSieve 2.4 Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:59:11 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/?p=50#comment-452 [...] SpamSieve is a third party spam catcher that supplements Apple Mail’s inbuilt filter. It uses Bayesian filtering technology, which differs from Mail.app’s own systen (see “How does Apple Mail’s Junk filter work?”). [...] [...] SpamSieve is a third party spam catcher that supplements Apple Mail’s inbuilt filter. It uses Bayesian filtering technology, which differs from Mail.app’s own systen (see “How does Apple Mail’s Junk filter work?”). [...]

]]> By: Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Under the hood: WebKit’s HTML rendering in Mail 2.0 http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/08/20/how-apple-mails-junk-filter-works/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Under the hood: WebKit’s HTML rendering in Mail 2.0 Wed, 12 Oct 2005 05:30:32 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/?p=50#comment-168 [...] “Under the Hood” is a series of entries like the ones on Mail’s Junk filter and Apple Mail: the Early Years in which I share my attempts to understand better what’s going on behind the scenes in Apple Mail. Corrections welcome. [...] [...] “Under the Hood” is a series of entries like the ones on Mail’s Junk filter and Apple Mail: the Early Years in which I share my attempts to understand better what’s going on behind the scenes in Apple Mail. Corrections welcome. [...]

]]> By: Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Spamfire: Extra spam protection for Apple Mail http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/08/20/how-apple-mails-junk-filter-works/comment-page-1/#comment-165 Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Spamfire: Extra spam protection for Apple Mail Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:11:33 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/?p=50#comment-165 [...] It uses Bayesian filters which detect spam on a word-for-word frequency basis. This can complement Apple Mail’s inbuilt spam filter which uses a slightly different approach, known as “Latent Semantic Analysis”. [...] [...] It uses Bayesian filters which detect spam on a word-for-word frequency basis. This can complement Apple Mail’s inbuilt spam filter which uses a slightly different approach, known as “Latent Semantic Analysis”. [...]

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