Mozilla junk-mail controls kick ass. I said it earlier but I just have to say it again. If you haven't tried this then get the latest Mozilla build and give it a shot. You train the tool by marking mail messages as either "junk" or "not junk". After only minimal training it will start to automatically mark mail as junk for you. When you're satisfied that it's marking mail correctly you can enable moving of junk mail to a junk folder. I've trained with thousands of messages and I'm getting 92-93% of my junk automatically marked and moved to a junk folder and not a single false positive after nearly two months use and thousands of spams killed. It's so nice to open my inbox each morning and watch the total number of messages cut in half (or more) as the filter moves out the spam. This is definitely the biggest convenience feature since pop-up blocking. Mozilla is my online quality of life insurance. Thanks to dmose, sspitzer, bienvenu, jglick and the others that put so much time into this.
Posted by asa at January 17, 2003 11:28 PMI love it too, but sadly I have seen two false positives recently which hurt my trust for the feature a little. Luckily I spotted it and marked them as non-junk, so hopefully it shouldn't happen again.
Posted by: andred on January 18, 2003 12:04 AMandred, false positives suck. I'm not sure why you and others are seeing them and I'm not. Maybe I've just done more training. I had more than 10,000 known good messages that I trained as "not spam" and I think a few thousand spam messages that I trained as spam on the first day I was using the feature. Maybe that was a sufficiently large set of good mail to really nail down the identification of non-spam. Also, I was getting so much spam that I was missing or accidentally deleting good mail before the Moz junk mail controls. I remember on several occasions where I couldn't find a mail only to realize that in my over-zealous manual spam deleting (ctrl + click to select a batch of spam and delete) I'd accidentally deleted mail that wasn't spam. Given my track record with automate and manual spam deleting, I actually feel safer trusing the mozilla tool than trusting my manually deleting.
--Asa
Posted by: Asa on January 18, 2003 01:30 AM