This is all useful stuff but perhaps we should update the subject line
and topic tag.
Thanks, Bob

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015, at 06:27 PM, James Cameron wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 08:51:48PM -0400, Jean-Paul Louis wrote:
> > Yes, I am using Apple Mail client.
> >
> > I have tried other mail clients like Thunderbird, but there was no
> > noticeable improvement.  The frustration comes from the fact that
> > this behaviour is not consistent.
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> > Sometimes I can go several weeks without issues. If it is a setting
> > issue, I would love to hear from the experts, and fix it.
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> I'm familiar with the problem you face because I help manage
> laptop.org mail server and mailing lists, and we get this kind of
> thing often.
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> Yes, there is an inconsistency over time, and this can be because of
> the scoring methods used in the mail classification software.  The
> scoring methods change over time according to the advertising efforts
> of others.  But the inconsistency also suggests that you're right on
> the threshold, and there may be some things you can do to fix your
> scores.
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> That can be hard to do without knowing the scoring system.
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> I've briefly looked at your messages.
> Here's a recent example:
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> http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/z/1YYlcH.txt
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> Looking at the X-Mailer header, you are now on Mac OS X Mail 8.2.  So
> I don't think it is your mail client.  Looking at it over the past
> year, I see you are regularly applying updates to Apple Mail, the last
> being about 12 posts ago, around the start of February.
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> Looking at the other headers, there's lots of stuff added by Yahoo.
> Yahoo gets a slightly worse score because it was so easy to create new
> accounts there.
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> The X-Brightmail-Tracker is being inserted by an instance of Symantec
> Message Filter at mit.edu.
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> http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=3Dcontent&id=3DTECH12=
2796
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> Of the things you might try, the most successful may be to change your
> PIClist subscription to another mail provider.  Mac OS X Mail can
> handle a number of mail accounts at once.
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> James Cameron
> http://quozl.linux.org.au/

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