I have decided to wage war on spam, despite my long-held belief that trying to do so results in more stress and frustration than just deleting it.
I am absolutely baffled by Pocomail's spam features - I am not a programmer by any stretch so I am relying on existing features to do the job for me.
I have got a long list of filters, most of which seem to get ignored, and I am obviously failing to teach Mr Bayes the difference between "Hey you - buy viagra" and "Dear Mr Wortgames we would like to confirm the following order with your company".
Over time I have adjusted many of Pocomail's spam settings, obviously in the wrong direction.
Can anybody tell me what this means:
X-Poco-Score-Detail: -100 [%BAYES%=P=0;T=90;BIAS=+20] (%bayes% P=0;T=90;Bias=+20)
X-Poco-Score-Detail: +7 [X-POCO-SCORE=+]AND[TO=%EMAIL%]AND[TO=%REPLYTO%]AND[CC=%EMAIL%]AND[CC=%REPLYTO%] (X-Poco-Score +, and To %email%, and To %replyto%, and Cc %email%, and Cc %replyto%)
X-Poco-Score-Detail: +2 [FROM=%ADDRESSBOOKS%] (From %addressbooks%)
X-Poco-Score-Detail: +100 [SUBJECT=%JUNKSUBJECTS%] (Subject %junksubjects%)
X-Poco-Scored: +9
This was a spam message, absolutely riddled with 'banned' words, a specifically 'banned' subject line, the sender is NOT in my address book and I have tried to teach the Bayesian filter it is spam several times, declassified it as good several times, and classified it as junk several times, and it still manages to sit there in my inbox defiantly.
Is there a limit to how many words / characters the 'banned subject' file can contain?
Is there a generally-accepted 'best practise' setup I should be using?
Does each 'filter run' leave its results in the message, to confuse further filter runs?
It seems the more I try to teach Pocomail about spam the less effective it becomes.
(FWIW I'm using 3.4.0.2130 with XP SP2).
Any tips would be gratefully received!
~ Moved from PocoMail to Junk Mail Filtering ... Eric ~