![]() ![]() 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: 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. SpamSieve uses a variety of methods to identify spam messages, but by far the most important is a statistical technique known as Bayesian analysis.For a more in-depth treatment of this technique applied to spam, see this article by Paul Graham and the papers it references. 4.Under Properties of this rule: checked the check. 3.Click more options, then under Do the following drop-down list, select modify the message properties > set the spam confidence level (SCL) > Bypass spam filtering. ![]() If you get lots of emails that contain certain words, SpamSieve learns that these are normal, and sends them to your inbox. 2.Under Apply this rule if drop-down list, select The sender is, and then select the user that you want to receive email from. 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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