From d176ce2b59ae32349a18a74f7b4b0be4a5c56c5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: M66B Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:35:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Updated FAQ --- FAQ.md | 3 +++ index.html | 1 + 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/FAQ.md b/FAQ.md index 0aa8950c18..0a3532a428 100644 --- a/FAQ.md +++ b/FAQ.md @@ -3569,6 +3569,9 @@ Also, you'll want spam filtered for all your email clients, possibly including w Moreover, email servers have access to information, like the IP address, etc. of the connecting server, which an email client has no access to. Furthermore, an email server can inspect all messages of all email accounts, while an email client can inspect messages in your email account only. +Spammers today use large spam networks with many servers and e-mail addresses and AI to create messages that slip through spam filters. +This means that only powerful servers running a neural network fed with many messages can filter spam properly. A smartphone simply cannot do that anymore. + If you are receiving a significant amount of spam, the first thing you should do is consider switching to another email provider. Some email servers excell at filtering spam, and others are really bad at it. Switching to another e-mail provider is no fun, but neither is wading through piles of spam on a daily basis. diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index dcc946ed06..aef94da4aa 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -1922,6 +1922,7 @@ Y1 OK CAPABILITY completed

(92) Can you add spam filtering, verification of the DKIM signature and SPF authorization?

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Spam filtering, verification of the DKIM signature and SPF authorization is a task of email servers, not of an email client, which is basically a viewer for messages on an email server. Servers generally have more memory and computing power, so they are much better suited to this task than battery-powered devices. Also, you’ll want spam filtered for all your email clients, possibly including web email, not just for one email client on one device. Moreover, email servers have access to information, like the IP address, etc. of the connecting server, which an email client has no access to. Furthermore, an email server can inspect all messages of all email accounts, while an email client can inspect messages in your email account only.

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Spammers today use large spam networks with many servers and e-mail addresses and AI to create messages that slip through spam filters. This means that only powerful servers running a neural network fed with many messages can filter spam properly. A smartphone simply cannot do that anymore.

If you are receiving a significant amount of spam, the first thing you should do is consider switching to another email provider. Some email servers excell at filtering spam, and others are really bad at it. Switching to another e-mail provider is no fun, but neither is wading through piles of spam on a daily basis.

Spam filtering based on message headers might have been feasible, but unfortunately this technique is patented by Microsoft.

Recent versions of FairEmail can filter spam to a certain extent using a message classifier. Please see this FAQ for more information about this.