Outlook for mac spam filter series#

In just a few weeks SpamSieve becomes amazingly accurate. You do the same for non-spam that shows up in your Spam folder.

From then on when you get a spam message in your in-box you mark it as spam, and SpamSieve adjusts it's filters.

Outlook for mac spam filter series#

SpamSieve automatically analyzes both samples and looks for things common to the spam that you receive, and things common to the non-spam that you receive, and it creates a series of filters to form a blacklist and a whitelist. Then you choose a bunch of your typical non-spam e-mails and mark them as non-spam. To start off, you choose a bunch of spam e-mails in your e-mail program and mark them as spam. If you want to deal with spam effectively, without any risk of losing legitimate e-mails, I can't recommend SpamSieve enough: I found the built-in anti-spam capabilities of Apple's Mail to be insufficient to deal with this. Click to expand.Because I have about a half dozen Web sites, which get harvested for my e-mail address by bots, I receive as many as 100 spam messages a day.