Spam: Filtering with Multiple-word rules, spam folders, Auto-delete

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My domain is fairly new so it’s only been recently that I’ve had to use eMclient for spam mangement.

My email hosting provider uses Jellyfish, but I had to turn it off since it was blocking legitimate emails (not even routing them to a spam folder for review). And it is easier to use spam controls on the client you have up anyway versus having to log into a web page everytime you want to make a tweak.

I’ve really like eMc up until now, because I’ve been disappointed to find what i consider basic spam-management features lacking:

  1. Rules options for words in the subject/body take the word/phrase list as an OR condition and there seems to be no way to make it AND. My email host’s web client provides this but again having to log in every time I need to tweak the filter is defeating the purpose.

It would be even better if there were a way to specify the frequency of a word for spam filtering purposes (An email where “email(s)” and “whatsApp” appear a dozen times is likely to be spam, but one where it appears two or three times less so.)

  1. eMclient shows, under the “more” folders tab, a folder called confirmed-ham and confirmed-spam. These folders do not appear in my web client and I never created them. Are they created by default in eMc and hosted locally? What is their purpose vs. the other various “spam” and “junk” folders?

  2. I would like to see an option where you can automatically delete the contents of the Spam and Trash folder after a certain number of days, not just on exit (I saw that auto-spam deletion is coming in v9, but only on exit?). I feel like this is quite standard for other deletion regimes and again surprised eMclient doesn’t support this.

I would be very happy to upgrade to the pro/paid version for the above features.

Thanks.

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  1. Rules and spam filtering by emclient is VERY weak. I doubt it will change. Some of us here use Mailwasher Pro to pre-filter our email and then launch emclient on what’s left.
    https://www.mailwasher.net
    They have a free version, but I don’t know what it is or what it does.

  2. The confirmed-ham and confirmed-spam are probably from your hosts jellyfish. I haven’t seen them in emclient.

  3. As far as I know, you’ll need to check your trash and spam and right click and empty when you want to.

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So I don’t quite understand the problem now.
In emClient I filter spam very well via blacklist.

In addition to the domain, you can also enter the country code, too, and link it with “ends with”.
Outlook doesn’t have that option.

It’s a bit of work at first, but now it’s hardly annoying as spam.

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Whether a particular spam system works for someone, depends on many factors. If emclient’s spam filtering works for your spam problem, great. If someone else has 50 times as much spam as you, it might not work as well.

Mailwasher offers options like checking with SpamCop and Spamhaus for known spammers. Using their First Alert! system. Using Bayesian learning to figure out what you consider spam and a few more. It also has the sorts of lists and rules.

For me, Mailwasher catches about 60-70 spams a day, which emClient doesn’t need to deal with. Some still get through, and some are caught by emclient. I have things setup so that there is very very little chance that good emails get caught and I miss them.

For example, an imperfection in emclient’s spam filtering: if a spammer uses gmail, you can’t blacklist the domain and country won’t help. If they randomize their name or even email address among many gmail accounts (or they are phony gmail accounts), you can’t do the sender. If they change the sender, so sometimes it is hotrussianbabes and sometimes cuterussianbabes etc. a bayesian filter might succeed, where emclient’s filters won’t.

So, I accepted that the op actually had a legitimate complaint and offered an option with more power.

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