![]() ![]() 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. SpamSieve is already removing the spam from your Mac’s inbox, so the normal IMAP/Exchange synchronization will automatically remove the spam messages from the iPhone’s inbox as well. The SpamSieve window is a low-key dialog that lets you access preferences, a log, statistics, and more. SpamSieve can then move the message to the inbox on that same account, and the message will always end up in the right place. In most cases, you don’t have to do anything extra for SpamSieve to filter the spam on your iPhone. 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. If you get lots of emails that contain certain words, SpamSieve learns that these are normal, and sends them to your inbox. ![]() 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. ![]() To re-install the plug-in, choose Install Apple Mail Plug-In from the SpamSieve menu. if it was disabled by an OS update), Mail will move every message to the Junk mailbox without consulting SpamSieve. Years ago I decided that I prefer using software on my Mac to filter spam. Apple Mail If SpamSieve’s plug-in is not installed or not enabled (e.g. ![]()
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