![]() ![]() By learning from the very messages that you receive, SpamSieve is able to block nearly all of your spam, without putting your good messages in the spam mailbox. Other spam filters get worse over time as spammers adapt to their rules SpamSieve actually gets better over time as it adapts to your mail. It’s quick and easy to control SpamSieve from within your mail client, and you can customize how it interacts with the rest of your message sorting rules. SpamSieve gives you back your inbox by bringing powerful Bayesian spam filtering to Mac e-mail clients. Adjusted the help page titles to fit better in the menu and search results. ![]() Made various other clarifications to the manual. The Apple Mail plug-in is better at reporting errors when it’s unable to fully load itself. Worked around a rare OS/hardware condition that could prevent SpamSieve from launching. Updated the Setting Up Postbox instructions to ensure that messages that you train as spam are moved to the junk mailbox or trash. Updated the Setting Up Outlook instructions for Microsoft Office 2011 Service Pack 1. Updated the Setting Up MailMate instructions for the new preferences in MailMate 1.1.2. Improved compatibility with Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). Made various changes to improve SpamSieve’s filtering accuracy. However, if you’d like, you can bring it to the foreground to view statistics, change preferences, and add or delete rules from the whitelist or blacklist.Made various changes to improve SpamSieve’s filtering accuracy. SpamSieve usually runs in the background, letting you work within your e-mail client. The Advanced tab controls SpamSieve’s overall strategy-a slider lets you select any point between conservative and aggressive I left the slider in the middle, and found it produced excellent results. The Training tab lets you change how SpamSieve learns about spam and ham. SpamSieve’s preferences are simple a Filters tab lets you fine tune (or disable, if you wish) the operation of the filters, and the Notification tab lets you change how SpamSieve notifies you of its activities, with support for Senders in your Address Book, as well as those on messages you don’t mark as spam, are automatically placed on the whitelist. There’s also a blacklist (messages that are deemed junk automatically SpamSieve calls it a blocklist) and a whitelist (messages that are deemed good automatically), and you can add and remove entries from these two lists if you wish. A Bayesian filter analyzes incoming messages to determine whether they’re spam or ham. SpamSieve uses a combination of methods to filter junk mail. ![]() Because you can train SpamSieve en masse with existing messages, the program can do an excellent job of filtering almost from the minute you install it. SpamSieve suggests using a ratio of 65 percent spam to 35 percent ham for best results. The solution differentiates itself by working within a user’s email application, rather than as a separate app or cloud-based service layer. You train the program by selecting a number of messages and then using an entry in the Message menu (Mail) or an AppleScript menu (Entourage) to train those messages as spam or ham (a general reference to valid e-mail). TL DR: C-Command’s SpamSieve has helped Mac users eliminate spam from their email inboxes for more than 17 years. The manual does a good job of walking you through the setup process, and screenshots make it easy to follow the instructions.Īfter setup is complete, you should get started by training SpamSieve with an assortment of both spam and non-spam (ham) messages. In Entourage, you need to create two rules the other supported clients have varying setup requirements. In Mail, you need to create one simple rule, and disable the built-in Junk mail filtering. (If you’re using one of the other supported programs, installation instructions are found in SpamSieve’s manual.) SpamSieve works with both POP and IMAP accounts, and doesn’t require you to customize your account settings, unlike some of the other anti-spam tools.Īfter installing the plug-in, you’ll want to refer to the manual to find out what’s required to customize your mail client. Once the program is running, you can install either a plug-in (Mail, Eudora, Thunderbird) or AppleScripts (Entourage) directly from the SpamSieve menu. Regardless of which mail program you’re using, you first launch the SpamSieve application. SpamSieve’s setup isn’t automatic, but it isn’t overly complicated, either. ![]()
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