![]() ![]() ![]() Mac Gems By Kirk McElhearn, Contributor, Macworld 8:20 pm PST At a glance Pros Cons. And those two keyboard shortcuts-Train as Good and Train as Spam-become second nature. SpamSieve learns from the email messages you receive, making it a very accurate spam filter. 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: If you are feeling that a certain website or sender is spamming your inbox, you can set up a filter, which will automatically flag emails and delete them automatically. 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. This is the easiest way to stop spam emails. The ADV marker is used by some commercial bulk mailers. If you get lots of emails that contain certain words, SpamSieve learns that these are normal, and sends them to your inbox. 6.1.8 ADV messages are spam This option causes SpamSieve to always mark messages as spam if they contain some variant of ADV at the start of the subject line. 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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