From kde-pim Sun May 10 10:42:41 2009 From: Sven Burmeister Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 10:42:41 +0000 To: kde-pim Subject: [Kde-pim] spam-filtering, introduce "unsure" folder Message-Id: <200905101242.43484.sven.burmeister () gmx ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-pim&m=124195221523397 Hello everybody! Some time ago I wrote to the bogofilter mailinglist because I found that many users do not mark email as ham if it appears in their inbox. They only take action if there was a wrong decision, i.e. if ham is in the inbox, there is no need to emphasise that implicit "decision" by marking it explicitly as ham. Hence bogofilter never actually starts to kick-in. http://www.bogofilter.org/pipermail/bogofilter/2009-January/009572.html From the conversation in that thread I gathered that while bogofilter has an "unsure" state, kmail does not use it. http://www.bogofilter.org/pipermail/bogofilter/2009-January/009576.html Currently there are only two directions for incoming mail when bogofilter was just enabled, trash or inbox. Trash is a bad idea, because there are certainly false positives and inbox isn't that good either because it mediates that the all mails in it are not spam. If kmail would filter emails into an unsure folder, the user would see that bogofilter is actually working, which is already an improvement. Further the unsure folder is not the trash, so the user is not afraid of losing email and finally since "unsure" is a state that needs further processing, the user will take some action on those emails which is what bogofilter needs. In a worst case scenario the user just moves the emails back into the inbox and marks the spam as spam. However, those that get the hint will use the ham/spam buttons to process the email and use them to move them to the inbox or the trash respectively. If kmail would use a spam-folder by default instead of the trash, this spam- folder could act as the unsure folder. Sven _______________________________________________ KDE PIM mailing list kde-pim@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-pim KDE PIM home page at http://pim.kde.org/