Junk Mail help for Mail.app in Panther
Many people have been reporting problems with how Mail.app processes Junk mail since the upgrade to Panther, especially when marking an e-mail with no sender and no subject as spam. Until now, the only solution has been trashing your Junk Mail Prefs and starting over. The new version of Junk Matcher works in conjunction with Mail.app and might just be your solution.
JunkMatcher (JM) filters spam using powerful regular expressions, IP query against multiple blacklists (such as SpamCop.net) and various other techniques such as email property matching, HTML final rendering matching etc. You can match against almost every bit of a message (including attachment filenames and charsets), and the raw material for matching is cleaned out for you to defeat some of the tricks spammers use to obfuscate their messages.
JM can be added to Mail.app as a rule so it can be used hand-in-hand with Mail.app’s built-in (statistical) junk filter. Users can decide what actions to take on the matched messages (mark as junk/read/flagged/colored, move them to Junk/Trash mailbox etc.).
A self-contained GUI - JunkMatcher Central (JMC) is also included so you can conduct “Email forensics”: testing and building your regular expression patterns, browsing the log file of the past matchings, etc. You can even report spam to SpamCop.net directly from the log window. Many settings are also available in JMC so you can customize the entire matching process to your heart’s content.
Since I get about 50 junk messages an hour, I’m all over this. I just installed it and will keep you posted on how it measures up in the next few days.
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