Push spam
I’ve been running my N95 8GB with e-mail connected all the time at home to try the push e-mail. It’s great - my pocket goes chrrrrring! everytime a new e-mail arrives, in real time. It’s a neat piece of technology and even managed to make my elder daughter jealous as I was getting more messages than her!
For e-mail addicts like me this is great, however most of the messages are spam in the evening, which dramatically reduces the utility of the alerts. Phone clients need to get with the program and include some form of spam filtering. It’s not that difficult, since our server marks everything dodgy - all the client would have to do is detect [spam] and put it into a different inbox. I’m sure you can get different e-mail clients that do that, but they won’t support the push and they won’t be integrated as well into the user experience.
June 20th, 2008 at 10:19 am
why not set up your mail server (the dreaded ~/.procmailrc) to do the directory sorting?
June 20th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Sadly it’s not that simple.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
While most mail setups these days don’t allow for direct access to procmail they will usually have some form of server side rules engine.
We run websieve which is a little clunky but does the job pretty well for our sendmail/spamassasin/cyrus based setup - though there are many others built in or around most of the major mailservers - usually alongside the vacation/out-of-office stuff.
Obviously no idea how you have your email setup internally but would be surprised if it couldn’t at worst be added fairly easily.
We find it is vital to have now that the majority of folks are reading their email on mobiles of various sorts. Makes them much more sensitive to spam and regular emails etc.
I do think it is a problem that should be sorted out at server side so that folks don’t have to set their auto-filing scheme up multiple times (consistently?
across their increasing number of email clients.
G.
June 26th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
As I said, it’s not as simple as setting up a single profile. We’ve now programming in a rule at the mail server which puts spam-tagged stuff into a subfolder. However the problem with that is it now needs separate management by me to ensure that stuff isn’t going astray, AND imap will still download the headers into that subfolder on the phone which takes time and bandwidth which I’d rather not use for that. I’ll report back anon to see how well it works.
And I was trying to make a generic point - users shouldn’t have to go to these lengths to fight off vandalism.