10 Days With The Mac’s Best Spam Filter.
Spam is getting worse, not better. I hate spam. Work or personal, 90-percent of all my email is spam.
The best solution I’ve had so far is the past 10 days with the Mac’s best spam filter.
In the past few months or so there’s been a dramatic increase in spam—the junk email you love to hate.
Spam, or junk email, does not discriminate. Mac users get spam. Windows users get spam.
Recent reports say there’s a Windows bot-net delivering billions of email messages to.... (excerpted).
4 Reader Comments
Hamish said:
I love it - have been using SpamSieve for a number of years.
What I would like to see - SpamSieve Pro where you input your email addresses and password, and it logs onto your email account at regular intervals and somehow deletes (temporarily) your likely spam without having to download the emails first.
Should save some bandwidth too?
Tim Stringer said:
I currently forward most of my e-mail addresses to Gmail accounts. In my experience Gmail does an excellent job of filtering out spam, it doesn’t cost a penny and I have the advantage of being able to access my e-mail through a web interface or through Mac OS X Mail (I use the IMAP interface so that everything stays in sync).
emilio salois said:
Amen, brother. Nothing works better against spam than Spam Sieve. Not even Microsoft’s highly touted spam filter in Entourage is as good. Easy to set up, easy to train. I love it. Got it on both my Macs. Spam is almost nonexistent these days.
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Cinthia said:
I have SpamSieve and want to like it but It takes SO much training! I wonder what I’m doing wrong? I ran it 6 months ago and got so tired of having to sort the spam folder constantly that I ditched it. Now I’m trying again but after two weeks, I’m frustrated again. How many times do I have to say “treat this as good” before it will? And isn’t there some way to have it automatically delete something that is marked as “spam”? Why do we have to manually do that and THEN also manually delete? Isn’t there something to work before mail gets to my computer? I love Mac.com (ok, fine - MobileMe) for syncing mail, contacts, calendars but the spam filter stinks (and no todo list syncing -Google shares calendars, My ATT DSL account gives me Yahoo Plus with features I guess I’m not taking advantage of. I sure wish they’d all get along.