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Here's one little-known tip I learned from Fastmail support some time ago: it's only possible to train the spam filter using their Web UI. If you're using a 3rd-party client, simply moving messages to your spam folder will have no effect on your filter quality. So to truly flag a message as spam, you must switch to your browser, login to FM, and handle it from there.



But I don't want to mark everything that should not grab my immediate attention as spam.

Some stuff like promotions or social messages deserve their own folder. Google did this right.


Google does it right because they don't respect your privacy.

They have millions of users and they use aggregated data from all of them to manage the automatic categories.




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