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Email Service Providers such as Yahoo and Gmail use a spam filter to keep spam
messages away from our inbox. They keep messages they identify as spam in a
separate folder but most times those spam messages still find their way into
our inbox. This can be really annoying and wastes precious time. If you need to
get rid of spam messages more accurately so you can focus on important
messages, you need Spamsieve.
SpamSieve
tops the list of the most powerful spam filtering systems available for the
Mac.
SpamSieve is compatible with the most popular email clients, including
Apple Mail, Airmail, Outlook, Gmail, and iCloud. It will also work with just
about any mail server, including those using POP, IMAP, or Exchange protocols.
What makes
SpamSieve so powerful is that they make use of Bayesian spam filtering techniques,
and whitelists and blacklists that are easy to manage. Phishing emails are easy
to identify as Spamsieve even displays just how spammy it thinks an incoming message is.
The Good of
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Runs on your Mac, not on a remote server somewhere.
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Highly-adaptive Bayesian filter that quickly learns
from new spam messages.
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Works with just about any mail provider service.
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Maintains a whitelist to guarantee message delivery.
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Maintains a blacklist to keep known spammers at bay.
The Bad
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Must be trained by each user to learn what spam is.
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Training time can be long, depending on the amount of
spam a user receives.
Installing SpamSieve
Installation
is a three-step process, starting with the basics of dragging the SpamSieve app
to your /Applications folder.
Once it's
installed, you need to instruct your mail client to use SpamSieve. The method
for installing the SpamSieve plug-in differs slightly from client to client,
but there's nothing difficult about the process.
The final
step is to train SpamSieve about what is and isn't spam. The process starts
when your mail client receives a message. SpamSieve will intercept the message,
examine the message details, and then move the message to either your mail
client's inbox or a spam folder.
Your job is to go through the spam folder and
mark the messages that don't spam; you'll also need to check your inbox, to
see if SpamSieve missed any messages that are spam, and mark them as such.
Over time,
SpamSieve will learn which is which and become very accurate at detecting and
correctly processing spam for you. If you would like to speed up the training
process, you can use any spam messages you already have within your mail
client, and mark those as spam using SpamSieve.
Using Web-Based Mail Systems
Web-based
email systems, such as Gmail, Yahoo!, and iCloud, can also be used with
SpamSieve, although not directly through a web interface. Instead, you'll need
to set up your current mail client to access your web-based mail using the POP,
IMAP, or Exchange protocol.
Almost all of the popular webmail systems provide
one or more of these standard mail protocols as an alternative for accessing
their mail servers.
Once you
have the webmail accounts set up in your mail client, you can use SpamSieve
just like you would for any standard mail system.
Whitelist
A whitelist
is a list of email addresses from which you're always willing to receive the email.
SpamSieve can use your Contacts list to create a whitelist. You can also have
the whitelist include anyone you've sent email to, on the premise that you wouldn't
send messages to spammers.
Blacklist
A blacklist
is a list of rules that define a message as originating from a spammy source.
The rules
can be as simple as the sender’s address is equal to
postmaster@spammystuff.com. Or it can be far more complex, with rules that
include looking at the message content for specific words or patterns.
By using
rules to control the blacklist, SpamSieve allows you to create rules that work
even when the sender’s name or address is constantly changing.
Review
SpamSieve
has been around for long but has been kept up to date and remains one of the
best anti-spam choices you can make for your Mac.
SpamSieve
runs on your Mac as a preprocessing plug-in for your mail client. Because of
how SpamSieve works, running its filtering routines on incoming mail before the
actual mail client gets the data, SpamSieve can remain your spam filtering the system even if you change mail clients.
SpamSieve
is easy to set up. Its spam learning system is easy to train, and much quicker
and more accurate than Apple Mail's built-in spam filtering system. In fact,
Apple Mail and SpamSieve make very powerful partners for fighting spam.
SpamSieve
costs $30.00 A demo is available.
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