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Quickie on GFI Anti-spam Public Folders - 20.Oct.2009 3:02:27 PM

Marcela_Admin

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We plan to really encourage users to drop copies of mail to the Spam folder/Legitimate Mail folder as appropriate.

What is going to happen if 100 people are on some kind of mailing list and it is marked as [SPAM]. Let's say 80 don't pay attention but 10 drop the mail to the Spam folder. 10 to Legit folder. Which 'wins' ?

And in reverse. 100 people receive an untagged message. 10 put it to Spam this week. Next week when the mailing list sends the new newsletter ...... 10 mark it as Legit.

How does ME handle the conflict ? Would be nice if these were reported to Admin.

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RE: Quickie on GFI Anti-spam Public Folders - 21.Oct.2009 9:44:09 AM

RSP

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Excellent questions. I've never seen a specific answer, but if you trawl through the forum, there are messages that suggest a mis-placed email can have its effect reversed by adding it to the correct folder a number of times.

Don't forget that the Legitimate (and Spam) public folders only train the Bayesian filter, so if an email was caught by a different module higher priority than Bayesian, adding it to Legitimate will have no effect. Conversely, if an email was let through by the whitelist and the whitelist is higher priority than Bayesian, adding the email to Spam will have no effect.

Similarly, the Add to Whitelist/Blacklist folders function on the Whitelist and Custom Blacklist (now called both Custom and Email Blacklist in 14.1) and module ordering is important.

I've never understood the Discussion List folder.

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