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by Beltalowda 1436 days ago
> The problem is that underlying model is not capable to differentiate fake email from your boss (unless it's really simple) VS many other external emails you get.

But that's not really "spam", right? That's targetted phishing, which is quite a different thing.

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If "spam == mail that user did not expect/want to receive", then phishing emails are also unwanted :)

It's all up to definitions, but yeah the two categories are different in nature.