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Spamsieve cost9/26/2023 Out of those SpamSieve correctly marked and moved over 30 messages and missed only 2 that needed training. SpamSieve is a robust spam filter for major email clients that uses powerful Bayesian spam filtering. SpamSieve and Bayesian filters require me to do nothing other than re-marking incorrectly filtered messages (fals negatives and positives). ![]() To give you an idea, yesterday I received 307 emails. At a cost of about fifteen seconds at my fastest to block one spammer, sure it may save me five or ten seconds (20-25 spams) over the life of the filter, but thats not an exceedingly great return. ![]() The configuration isn’t difficult, but you need to be 100 accurate and double check your work or nothing gets filtered. With SpamSieve now working, and trashing messages, in a good way, is it worth it It’s not an expensive app, nor is it a subscription, so that’s points in its favor. After a while, you'll have a personalized set of inclusion/exclusion rules that gets better over time. We’ll check on that after letting it run a while. When it does, using either a keystroke sequence or a pulldown menu from your Mail client you can train it as spam.Īt the start, it's quite labor intensive since you have to mark a few hundred messages for it to really start working, but it pays dividends. This is described in more detail in the Enabling and Updating the Apple Mail Plug-In section. Click Manage Plug-ins in Mail’s General settings and enable SpamSieve.mailbundle. I've been using it since November of 2003 and after years of training, it's so accurate that it rarely fails to catch an errant spam encrusted message. Then double-click the SpamSieve application and choose Install Apple Mail Plug-In from the SpamSieve menu at the top-left of the screen. The more messages you mark, or train, the more accurate SpamSieve gets. As you do, it builds a a corpus file of rules telling determining what is spam and what isn't. Using Bayesian filtering, SpamSieve installs as a plug-in to your mail client and lets you mark messages as spam. It's the best way I've found to deal with spam. ![]() We have mentioned it a few times previously, but since it has recently been updated to version 2.76 I wanted to sing its praises again.
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