Tag: gmail

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spam

Fighting spam in gmail

Everyone hates spam, and like everyone else I get tons of it. So I’ve of course written about it two times before. Earlier this week we migrated over to a better email solution, so that we could get SPF working properly. SPF should help google figure out what is spam and what is not. In the process I went through all my old spam (all 4200 hundred of them) and found the following patterns to be  effective in cleaning my spam folder:

Matches: (Pfizer || replica || diploma || pharmacy || meds || pills || male enhancement || BuyCializ || http://www.nobelbarmoebelonline.com || http://www.nobelfahnenmitmast.com || http://www.nobelbarmoebel.com || Bestellseite || http://www.nobeltannenonline.com || http://www.nobelgewerbetools.com || health || Reinigungswirkung || britney spears || http://www.edelebarmoebel.com || http://www.edelefahnenmitmast.com || http://www.alumastmitfahnen.com || 성명 || 주식 || Проверки || Damen und Herren || и || видео || lv-bestbag || lv-bagshop || 밤세상)
Do this: Skip Inbox, Delete it

BIG FAT WARNING: This list is of course highly personal, and you should check how many in your inbox it matches, before installing it.

With this list in place I get about 10-15 spam a day and I can actually go through my spam box to look for false-positives. Sadly something that still happens way to often 🙁

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funny

Gmail please fix your spam filter

Lately Gmail has been become increasingly frustrating to use. When I check mail in the morning I have about 5 spam mails in my inbox. Even some from Viagra. Even worse, the number of false positives (ham classified as spam) has also been increasing so that I now at least once a day have to resort to looking for legitimate mail in my spam folder. For a spam filter this is the worst case scenario. Actually it seems like Gmail has trouble categorizing spam as seen below. I hope it’s only a UI bug, but something deeper down is definately rotten.

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On the web

Spank my monkey part 2

This is a list of scripts that I have been collecting over a long period of greasemonkey use. The extension to firefox just keeps getting better and better all the time.

Flickr

  • Allsizes+ – Now with nag screen galore, but still very nice to snatch bigger resolution pictures.
  • Cross recommendations – This really makes browsing random pictures on flickr much more interesting.

Last.fm

IMDB

Google/Gmail

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firefox On the web

Spank my monkey

Found out that apparently flickr doesn’t allow you to save their pictures. They replace the path of pictures with this odd spaceball.gif picture. Luckily greasemonkey ones again comes to the rescue, and this time in a very nice way. Apparently some images on flickr can only be view in large for pro users or something like that, but this script adds back the all sizes and makes it easy to snatch high quality images from flickr 🙂

From this new found interest in greasemonkey, I decided to look for what other nice scripts there exists. If you use gmail you’ll like the change all mailto:// links to open in gmail and replace http with https (works for gmail, google calendar and a bunch of other sites).