My Apple mail client has a built-in spam filter. I’m not sure how it works, but it does have to be trained. Anyway, that’s all I know about it.
It turns out that of all of the copious communications I receive from Microsoft, the ONLY thing that the spam filter catches – EVERY TIME – is the Microsoft Mactopia (Mac Business Unit) newsletter. I mark it as “not junk” every time. It refuses to learn.
(For what it’s worth, Mail.app is largely a piece of crap, with tons of un-Apple-like bugs. Don’t get me started.)
[...] Steve Dispensa tells a funny story on his Kernel Mustard blog: My Apple mail client has a built-in spam filter. I’m not sure how it works, but it does have to be trained. Anyway, that’s all I know about it. [...]