I have been using Apple's Mail app since I installed Jaguar in the fall. I am not a power email user, and I loved the integration with the address book, so it was a good fit for me. More than anything, I was hoping that Apple's Junk Filter would help me clean up my inbox. Junk Mail has become overpowering and I wanted an integrated solution.
For the most part, it has been successful. It catches a lot of the obvious mail and some stuff that I might be fooled by. Still, there are often things that slip through the cracks that really shouldn't. For instance, today I got an email with the title, "Spam: Guaranteed YAHOO lisiting! $15.00 Ea. fcxk," and it didn't get filtered. Also, I've had general emails from friends that got flagged as spam. As a result, I have yet to take it out of training mode and this is disappointing.
I hope that Apple makes it a priority to imrpove the filtering in the next major release because I am just waiting for another easy app to take its place.
01/20/03 2:48 PM
I took it out of training mode a couple of weeks ago, and so far it's been 99% ok. Still a couple of spam has come through, but that's ok. Nothing's perfect, after all.
01/20/03 3:22 PM
You've got a point. It just seems odd that some of the most obvious spam, the kind that tells you it's spam, is getting through. Also, it would be nice to set some of your own 'hot words' that would treat mail as spam.