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How Apple's Mail.app Junk Filter Works

Posted by pudge on from the would-you-like-to-buy-a-monkey? dept.

fmorgan writes "O'Reilly has now posted the second part on an article about Mac OS X Mail.app spam filtering with more details on what this technology is (and isn't): 'Many myths have emerged about Mail's junk mail filter. No, it's not an extremely complex set of rules, no it doesn't look for keywords, and no, it doesn't use white magic ... Interestingly enough, the technology that underlies the Junk Mail filter began its life as an information retrieval system.'"

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  1. Re:Fast?!? by sfgoth · · Score: 0, Troll

    No problem, except the next thing El' numbnuts is going to ask for is a tool to actually FIND something in all that mess.

    I have over 3GB of mail archived using Eudora, and I use the search feature all the time.

    Here's a nickel, buy yourself another gigabyte.

    Are sysadmins trying to become the new beancounters? Who the hell are you to decide which of my data is valuable?