![]() ![]() ![]() And those two keyboard shortcuts-Train as Good and Train as Spam-become second nature. This app works so well that, over time, you almost forget about it. ![]() SpamSieve launches in the background when you open your email app, and you can control its main features-telling the app that given messages are spam or good email-from the keyboard, or from a menu. In fact, there is no SpamSieve window, only some settings dialogs that you can display in Mail, for example, by choosing Message > SpamSieve – Open Window. SpamSieve has blocked more than 19,000 spam emails, with 99.4 percent accuracy.Īfter you install SpamSieve-which works with Apple Mail, Outlook, Airmail, Postbox, and many other email clients-you don’t ever see the app. I still get some spam in my inbox, but no more than a couple of messages a day. SpamSieve has a whitelist of your contacts and people you have sent email to, a blacklist that automatically blocks email from senders you’ve flagged, and its Bayesian analysis makes it incredibly accurate. The SpamSieve window is a low-key dialog that lets you access preferences, a log, statistics, and more. Here are my SpamSieve statistics, since the last time I did a clean install on my Mac, about a year and a half ago: SpamSieve will automatically whitelist these sender addresses if you have Auto-train with incoming mail and Train SpamSieve whitelist enabled. Initially, I was caught by the upgrade causing most of my mail to go to the Spam folder. However, if spam gets through, you just select one or more messages and press a keyboard shortcut to tell SpamSieve that they are spam the app learns from that too. I’m using Spamsieve 2.8.6 with Mac OS X 10.7 and Mail Version 5.0. You can confirm this by checking SpamSieve’s log to see whether it says that it predicted those messages to be spam. a server junk filter) is moving the messages to the Spam mailbox. The most likely explanation is that something else (e.g. If you get lots of emails that contain certain words, SpamSieve learns that these are normal, and sends them to your inbox. I’ve never seen a problem with SpamSieve’s whitelist not working (unless it’s turned off). Unlike the brute-force filters on servers, SpamSieve learns from your email. SpamSieve has been around since 2002 and is hands down the best spam filtering software for Mac. Years ago I decided that I prefer using software on my Mac to filter spam. ![]()
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