[X4U] Make the Junk filter do a better job?

[Michael Tsai]

On Apr 18, 2008, at 2:18 AM, Randy B. Singer wrote:

> The spammers are getting smarter.  Just this week I've started to  
> get a bunch of spam e-mails designed to screw up anti-spam utilities  
> such as SpamSieve.  Some come with my own e-mail address as the  
> "sent from" address.

These shouldn't pose any problems unless you have SpamSieve set to  
consider messages from your address as automatically good:

<http://c-command.com/blog/2007/10/04/catching-spams-from-your-address/>

> Others mimic a "failure  notice."

I think these *are* failure notices. That is, someone sent a spam  
message with your address as the return address, and the message  
couldn't be delivered, so the failure notice came back to you.

> And some include several paragraphs of legitimate sounding text  
> hoping to cause anti-spam software to thereafter flag legitimate e- 
> mail and become worthless.

They've been doing that since 2002. In my experience, this only causes  
problems when people think it will confuse their spam filter, and so  
they don't tell the filter that the message is spam.

> SpamSieve is still accurate enough for me, but more and more spam is  
> starting to find its way through.

 From what I've seen and heard, SpamSieve's accuracy over the past  
couple of months is the same as ever. If your experience differs,  
please send in a report:

<http://c-command.com/spamsieve/manual-ah/what-information-should>

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Michael Tsai                                 <http://c-command.com>