Netscape 7.1 Junk Mail not working properly
Stargazer
A week ago, I upgraded from Netscape 7.0 to 7.1. I am very pleased with
it so far,
except,
the junk mail feature doesn't seem to be working very well.
I have Office Outlook as my default mail application. Would that cause
the junk logic not to work?
Here are some facts
The software does automatically tags email as junk but maybe 1 out of 100.
When I select "run junk mail folder on folder" in my junk folders, it
tags about 40% of the messages as junk.
When I determine an email is junk, I tag it as junk but if I select "run
junk mail folder on folder", it untags it.
I checked that all the settings are properly setup.
a) junk mail controls is enabled
b) i've tried "move incoming message" enabled and un-enabled, getting
the same results.
c) the training.dat file keeps getting bigger. It is now over 324K.
I even reload 7.1.
I still use my own custom filter message logic to move junk mail and
that worked fairly well but can be a pain in the ass to maintain.
I really would love to get junk mail control working.
Anyone have any clue.
Maurice
bj
I would think Netscape would have to be your default mail application to
work efficiently... marking it AS received and moving it directly to the
junk folder.
What do you mean by "my own custom filter message logic"? Many people
have reported problems who were ALSO using their old message filters for
spam. I don't know if it matters, because I removed all my old spam
filters when I installed 7.1, but some say it does. Junk mail control
has worked fine for me, letting it have total responsibility for
identifying spam.
Since I really didn't understand *your* "filter system", I probably
haven't helped, but I think maybe you are making this more difficult
than it should be... unless you just have to use Office Outlook as your
default. :)
bj
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Stargazer spoke thusly:
JMC needs time to train itself according to what you mark as "junk" and
"not junk". That's why training.dat is getting bigger. It's gathering
statistics on what *you* have marked as "junk", not "not junk"; so it
can better determine what is spam. There's no need to "run junk mail
control on folder" after you've started marking individual messages.
See: http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/junkmail-filtering
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Lloyd Hayes
I installed Mozilla 1.4 first. The instructions for Mozilla called for
creating a new profile. Netscape 7.1 is Mozilla 1.4 with the AOL add
ins. Save all of your old emails, your addresses, and your bookmarks.
Then try creating a new profile. Import you addresses and bookmarks into
it. Don't delete the old profile until you get the new one the way that
you want it.
If you change profiles, the filters do not change with you. You have to
create them again.
I have no problems with the Junk mail filters on Netscape 7.1. They work
fine. You will see the email come in, then moved to your Junk folder.
Lloyd Hayes
Stargazer wrote:
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Stargazer
When I indicated that Office Outlook is my default mail application, I
was asking whether this would effect the junk mail logic within
Netscape mail which I use for my personal email application.
The my "junk or trash" folders are the folders I created before 7.1, to
filter out what I considered junk email. So they do contain junk
messages and after a week 99% still do not get tagged as junk yet.
How long will to before Netscape mail begins to tag my emails as junk.
As I indicated, it currently tagged 1 to 5 % of my mail. That has not
changed since I loaded 7.1.
Maurice
Neil Marshall wrote:
> Stargazer wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> A week ago, I upgraded from Netscape 7.0 to 7.1. I am very pleased with
>> it so far,
>>
>> except,
>>
>> the junk mail feature doesn't seem to be working very well.
>>
>> I have Office Outlook as my default mail application. Would that cause
>> the junk logic not to work?
>
>
> The junk filter only works on email in the netscape.
>
>> When I select "run junk mail folder on folder" in my junk folders, it
>> tags about 40% of the messages as junk.
>
>
> That filter is supposed to be run on folders that aren't classified.
> It isn't meant to mark all of the emails as junk.
>
> You actually have to tell it which emails are junk and which are not.
> When you recieve an email, you have to mark it as junk or not junk.
> Once you do that on enough emails, it will learn which ones are which
> and will automatically start to classify them properly. It takes some
> time. The "run junk mail filter on folder" is only needed for when
> you import a new folder that has a mixture of junk/not junk in it.
>