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by bgro 589 days ago
I haven’t used AI for sorting email yet but have over many attempts over many years tried to setup manual filters.

I try to make them as absolutely bulletproof as possible but I’m still running into problems because email is so rough.

Critical Microsoft emails for example constantly have random sketchy looking domains but are legit.

Or someone named “Don Otre Plyson” gets caught in the “DoNotReply” filter and I never see his important message.

I don’t know if I’d blindly trust AI to guess patterns better than me where I’d have no way of ever knowing if I potentially missed something.

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Yeah, I don't trust AI magic either. Very precise manual filters can run out of date quickly, "AI" can be unpredictable. Maybe naïve bayes will be a middle ground?

I use and like SpamSieve for macOS but it's limited to spam/not spam. I would really like support for more categories than two.