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SpamSieve 2.6.6 - Spam Filter

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The Bottom Line

SpamSieve lets you add superior Bayesian spam filtering to Mac OS X email clients, is just as easy to use as Mail's junk mail filters, and can give you statistics, too.
Pros
  • SpamSieve implements Bayesian spam filtering in a very smart, effortless and efficient manner
  • Integrates well with most email programs and can announce good mail using many tools
  • SpamSieve is easy to use
Cons
  • SpamSieve cannot work as a POP or IMAP proxy

Description

  • SpamSieve implements adaptive spam filtering using Bayesian statistics.
  • SpamSieve is accessible to any email application through AppleScript.
  • Supports Entourage, Emailer, PowerMail, Outlook Express, GyazMail, Mail, Mailsmith, Mozilla Thunderbird and Eudora.
  • SpamSieve gives statistical information about the corpus, and about its detection rate and accuracy.
  • Can use the Mac OS X address book as a whitelist. Mail from senders found there is never spam.
  • SpamSieve keeps track of messages analyzed to prevent you from adding the same mail multiple times.
  • SpamSieve analyzes text in encoded parts, too, and is resilient to lots of the spammers' tricks.
  • Additionally, SpamSieve can maintain automatic white and black lists of senders or phrases.
  • Can announce new good mail in the Dock and via sound, making sure you don't get notified about spam.
  • SpamSieve supports Mac OS X 10.3+.

Guide Review - SpamSieve 2.6.6 - Spam Filter

If you have tried Mac OS X Mail's great adaptive spam filters, you probably don't ever want to use email without their help again. Unfortunately, Mail lacks some of the powerful features of other email clients. If you rely on one of those programs for your email, you have to do without Bayesian spam filtering.

Unless, of course, you use SpamSieve. SpamSieve implements adaptive statistics-based spam filtering in a very effective way and makes it available via AppleScript. SpamSieve comes with scripts for Entourage, Emailer and PowerMail. Mailsmith, GyazMail and Eudora integrate SpamSieve completely and use it for seamless, easy to use spam filtering.

Optionally, you can get started with a seed corpus, though using your own mail exclusively is recommended. In addition to Bayesian filtering, SpamSieve lets you keep black and white lists of senders and phrases (these rules work in the message subject or body, for example, and you can use regular expressions to compose them). Usually, you don't have to maintain such lists, though.
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