#SPAMSIEVE NOT WORKING UPDATE#
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#SPAMSIEVE NOT WORKING MAC#

It’s free and it works great, easily 99.5%+ accurate. Likewise, for the very rare spam that gets through to my Inbox, I just click a button “Delete as Spam” that teaches the add-in about something new. I press a “Recover from Spam” button and SpamBayes moves it to my Inbox. I look through the junk folder every month or so for things that have been misfiled – often two or three corporate mailing list things will wind up there. It sounds like it works just like SpamSieve.

#SPAMSIEVE NOT WORKING UPDATE#

It’s brilliant enough that I’ve never bothered to get an update for it. I am sure there must be an equivalent for Windows, but this is the one to cure spam on the Mac.įor a SpamSieve-like program for Windows, I’ve been using SpamBayes (with Outlook on Windows XP) for the last three years. As it is I can happily live with it removing 99+%. Without that temporary lapse, I think SpamSieve would filter out 100% of the correct spam. I think the 99% batting average of my SpamSieve would be 1% better if it weren’t for two factors: 1) Because of product reviews my mail is more spamish than most, and 2) in the last 6 months spammers started sending image spam (the text is a picture) which as taken SpamSieve a while to figure out. For all that nothing I get a squeaky clean in box with a rare spam intruder. That’s it! SpamSieve also knows my friends from my address book, and it can be told about specific address or domains in hundreds of direct ways if you care to, but mostly I simply do nothing. Then about twice a month I go through my Junk Mail box and pluck out two or three “goods” that got through with a single keystroke that again admonishes SpanSieve of their proper state. I needed only a few minutes fiddling to get it up and running, and thereafter, I merely delete the occasional stray spam with a keystroke that simultaneously scolds SpamSieve about its correct nature and sends it to the dump. Like many of the best spam filters SpamSieve uses Bayesian tricks to learn from your in-box what kind of mail you approve of and what you hate. I’ve used some good spam filters before but they didn’t learn fast enough, or needed too much attention to keep on top of their game.

#SPAMSIEVE NOT WORKING MAC#

My wife, who has a Mac at work, was complaining about her spam load, and I realized, “oh my gosh, you mean you don’t know about SpamSieve?” I don’t have to open the app it somehow sits quietly behind most email programs. SpamSieve is so invisible and maintenance free that I’ve just about forgotten about it - despite the fact that my email has been widely posted on the web for 10 years. When I launch SS from the Apps folder, I can then train it to put spam in the spam folder but it does little or no spam filtering automatically. When I launch Mail it says it can’t find Spamsieve which needs to be in Applications folder (where it already is). I have been using it for almost three years now and its statistics show that over that time it was 99% accurate. I have Mac OS10.3.9 and find Spamsieve just doesn’t work. Message -> SpamSieve -> train as Spam leaves the message in the inbox, and does not change the log. I see the message in the log, marked as Good. SpamSieve is the best spam filter for the Mac. Training the message as spam is not working.

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