Posts made by dzl200

Thanks, those sound like great ideas. I'll try them...

Either way could be 'correct' or 'wrong' depending on the user's needs. Not making this a user-definable preference is a poor design decision. I see I'm probably going to have write my own e-mail client...

If Opera has no plans to work on Mail anymore, they should release the code as open source so it can be improved.

Hi,

Thanks for your ideas.

Opera doesn't do that as it's easy for a spammer to spoof the From header, which could then include a valid contact,
which could allow the spammer to bypass the spam filter.

Of course you're right, but it seems like the chances of that happening are pretty small, and given the tradeoffs I think it would have been a better decision to have allowed marked contacts to not be marked as spam. Right now I spend considerable time every day just fishing my valid contacts out of spam.

I think you're right though, based on the behavior it seems that the spam filter's internal filters get priority. A simple option to disable that would have been an easy thing to do.

I will try playing around a bit with the rules and settings, but since I get > 1000 spam messages/day, trying to retrain the filter might be too time-consuming.

I had been using Thunderbird but had a number of problems with it as well. It would be nice if there was some e-mail client out there "that just worked" (in the words of Steve Jobs) It can't be that hard...

No, I'm using pop. The mail server isn't doing any spam filtering.

I guess not many people use Opera mail otherwise I'm assuming this would have been fixed long ago. Seems like a 1-2 line code change...

Thanks, I'll try that. It seems like not marking messages from valid contacts as SPAM is kind of a no-brainer, and so should already be hardcoded into the SPAM filter's rules.

Hi, I just installed the latest standalone Opera Mail and am having the above problem. Is this a known bug? The Spam filter settings are extremely sparse (Spam -> Properties). Is there an Advanced mode available that gives access to more detailed controls?

Thanks in advance, and apologies if this was posted to the wrong forum but I didn't see one specifically for Opera Mail.

David