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fishfry - 26 Aug 2006 04:09 GMT

This week I missed three important emails because they were marked as
spam.

I get so much spam on my primary email account, that I think Eudora is
just overwhelmed. A vast amount of spam gets recognized and junked; a
fair amount of spam gets through; and lately, important email is getting
identified as junk.

What can I do? I should mention that my ISP does not do any spam
filtering so everything is sent to my Mac. I've had the same email
address for a long time and it's clearly on every spam list in the world.

Also, how do I set up a whitelist in Eudora so that it will
automatically recognize email from known users and domains?

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Sander Tekelenburg - 26 Aug 2006 06:11 GMT

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<BLOCKSPAMfishfry-B650F9.20094525082006@comcast.dca.giganews.com>,

> [...] lately, important email is getting
> identified as junk.
>
> What can I do?

Mark incorrectly Junked mail as Not Junk. (You might even want to do
that with mail that is not Junked, but gets a high score.)

If that doesn't cut it, get more powerful spam filtering. I don't use
them myself, but there are 1 or 2 commercial plug-ins for Eudora that,
according to some of the regulars here, do their job well. And/or you
could set up something like SpamAssassin or get your mailhoster to do so
for you (might cost a few cents extra.).

The risk of false positives will always remain though.

> I should mention that my ISP does not do any spam
> filtering so everything is sent to my Mac. I've had the same email
> address for a long time and it's clearly on every spam list in the world.

FWIW, for the past 2 years or so I've received some 200 spam messages a
day. Eudora's built-in Junk filter handles that well enough for me.
(Yeah, I know some people are spammed a lot more than that.)

This is what Eudora's statistics say:

Junk Email
45,309 messages (80%) this year
63,598 messages (73%) last year

Junk Email Not Identified
4,324 messages (7%) this year
6,142 messages (7%) last year

Email Incorrectly Identified as Junk
8 messages (0%) this year
4 messages (0%) last year

Junk Email Let Through by Address Book
477 messages (0%) this year
65 messages (0%) last year

Junk Identification Accuracy
92% this year
92% last year

> Also, how do I set up a whitelist in Eudora so that it will
> automatically recognize email from known users and domains?

Have you looked at the prefs? Eudora->Preferences->Junk: check "Mail
isn't junk if sender is in an address book". You can also check "Put Not
Junk-ed senders in address book" if you like (I do) and then under Junk
Extra's you can define which address book such addresses should end up
in.

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Marc Heusser - 26 Aug 2006 09:29 GMT

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<BLOCKSPAMfishfry-B650F9.20094525082006@comcast.dca.giganews.com>,

> This week I missed three important emails because they were marked as
> spam.
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>
> What can I do?

It can happen, if legitimate senders send malformed mail.
If you are on a Mac, try SpamSieve (well integrated with Eudora) - it
does a better job IMHO.

HTH

Marc

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