Talk:Junk Mail

The novice section should really be adapted to use wiki-style markup, and follow standard wiki style guidelines. -- Scjessey 07:24, 29 Apr 2005 (PDT)

Automatic whitelisting possible?
I was wondering if it's possible to automatically train the junk filter. I was using SpamPal for years, and this little programme automatically puts email adresses on the white list, of you send this address an e-mail a couple of time. So I was wondering: if I use the dreamhost SMTP server, would this help to train my junk filter?

Or is there an other way to train the junk filter?

I am using Mozilla Thunderbird as client. Rolandow 10:28, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Seeing junk mail in Inbox?
Wondering if anyone could help with this question. I just enabled Dreamhost's junk mail filter yesterday, and am really confused about my webmail's "junk mail" folder. Some junk does go to that folder, but other junk gets delivered with a "DHSPAM" header in my inbox, and it gets downloaded in Outlook too. I thought everything was supposed to go to the junk mail folder? How am I supposed to fix it so all spam goes to the Junk mail folder, and not my inbox? Thanks!

Answer: The DH Junk Mail Filter has two filter threshold settings: one is called Tag Level, the other is Quarantine Level. The Junk Filter assigns a spamminess value to each message and then compares with your threshold settings: How to use this:
 * 1) Messages with a spam value above your Quarantine value are put in the Junk folder.
 * 2) Messages with values between Tag and Quarantine are sent to your inbox, but marked with "DHSPAM".
 * 3) Messages with values below your Tag value are treated as ham (= not spam).
 * 1) If you see too many non-tagged spam mails in your inbox, lower your Tag value. Caution: This might also falsely tag ham mails.
 * 2) If you see too many tagged spam mails in your inbox, lower your Quarantine value. Caution: This might also falsely catch ham mails, so check your Junk folder often.
 * 3) Remember that you can whitelist those addresses that you know are okay. Either the entire e-mail address or any part of it can be specified as okay.

Spam going to the junk mail with a score of '0'
I have began to receive some spam in the junk box with a score of '0' I don't know what is going on, up until now all I have seen tagged this way is spam. Sometimes I have both '0' scored emails along with normal scored, at those times there's a gap between the 0 and the minimum quarantine score.

My theory is that there is another way to tag spam that do not assign a score to it. If that is so I wish to know what exactly it is this new method. :-D If it is not this may be a problem that will eventually tag a ham email.

Text reversed?
Oh, and once you're done with the 'training' I described above, set your tag level high again - a tag level that is lower than the quarantine level won't do any good: anything that is quarantined won't get tagged as well.

Shouldn't this say: anything that is tagged won't get quarantined as well? Or what is it trying to say? Fahmu 23:10, 21 Feb 2007 (PST)

Typo in page?
In the Analyzing Full Headers section, the example is unclear. The examples starts with a line: Return-Path:  The note following the example refers to a the same header thus: Return-Path: 

This note is the only place the email do_not_reply@apple.com is mentioned--it's nowhere in the example that I can see. So it looks like your example is wrong, and therefore misleading. Since this page is locked, maybe the person responsible for maintaining it can fix the example so it provides clarity instead of confusion.

Quarantine to IMAP
Someone in the know should add info on what happens when you set "Quarantine to IMAP folder" for an account.

Am I right that "Tag as spam if the score is above" will then be used to decide what goes in the quarantine IMAP folder?