[MlMt] Interaction with SpamSieve problem

Robert Goldman rpgoldman at sift.net
Fri Oct 6 11:31:09 EDT 2017


On 6 Oct 2017, at 3:40, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 5 Oct 2017, at 16:52, Robert Goldman wrote:
>
>> I get a number of emails that have a lot of images in them, but that 
>> are legitimate.  E.g., the US Postal Service sends me an email every 
>> day showing me images of the mail that will arrive in the day's 
>> delivery.
>>
>> I mark these as "Not Junk," but even so, every day the message comes 
>> in with the "Mark As Not Junk," "Load Once," "Move to Junk" toolbar.  
>> Should I expect to need to hand-tag these every day, or is this a 
>> problem with my SpamSieve configuration?
>
> No, it's a MailMate setting. When SpamSieve reports something as being 
> spam then MailMate moves it to Junk. If not, then MailMate leaves it 
> in the Inbox, but this does not affect image blocking (by default). 
> Image blocking is not only relevant for junk email (in my opinion).
>
> What you need to do is to review the settings in the Security 
> preferences pane. You can tell MailMate to mark emails explicitly as 
> “Not Junk” if they have a score under some value (the SpamSieve 
> score for non-junk is 0-50). This can then be combined with disabling 
> image blocking for “Not Junk” emails.
>
> But in your case I think it might be better to setup a rule to 
> explicitly mark these specific emails as “Not Junk”.
>
> -- 
> Benny
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Thank you very much.  Writing a rule does just what I want.

Is there a similar way to allow loading of remote content for some 
emails?  That isn't a tag setting or moving operation, so I don't know 
if it's possible.

Many thanks, I am really enjoying working with MailMate.


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