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The Unsettler
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Lantanna TX
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Spam filter for Mac users
My oldest and longest running email account got on a bad spammer list a couple of years ago. Has pretty much rendered it useless.
I was agonizing over just shutting it down for good which made me sad. Decided to try one last thing before I gave up. SpamSieve, SpamSieve: Easy-to-use Mac spam filter for Apple Mail, Outlook, Entourage, Postbox, and more They have a free one month fully functioning demo. Only took about 3 hours to decide it will be worth the $30 for the paid app. If you're on a Mac and spam is killing you I highly recommend it.
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08-01-2014, 07:01 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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I run spamassassin on my mail server (so a lot gets dropped there) but any that slip through are caught by Thunderbird's built in junk mail controls (Bayesean based and trained)
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08-01-2014, 07:12 AM
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The Unsettler
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Lantanna TX
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Spamsieve is bayasean. Apple mails built in spam filter is pathetic.
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08-01-2014, 07:34 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Mid-life crisis, could be anywhere
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I've been using SpamSieve for several years and am very happy with it.
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08-01-2014, 07:40 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Ventura County, CA
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I just purchased, downloaded, and set up SpamSieve this morning as a result of this thread. My work email is inundated with spam.
Took about ten minutes to set up and run a small training sample. I'm anxious to see how well it does.
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08-01-2014, 09:35 AM
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The Unsettler
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Lantanna TX
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Thankfully I had a huge sample base. Don't forget to give it some good samples to cut down on false positives. So far I've had 3 false positives but they were my fault, was not paying attention and I flagged them as spam while doing the training.
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08-01-2014, 09:43 AM
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The Unsettler
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Lantanna TX
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Caught ~150 pieces of spam on the one account since around 7 am.
0 false positives. Maybe 10 pieces got past it but "trained" them so I expect tomorrows inbox should be even cleaner. Even if 10 or so get through a day that's perfectly manageable.
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