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.

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)

I have spamassasin running as well and shudder to think how bad it would be without it because for this one account it's debilitating.

Spamsieve is bayasean.

Apple mails built in spam filter is pathetic.

I've been using SpamSieve for several years and am very happy with it.

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.

The larger the sample the faster it will work.

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.

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.