![]() ![]() ![]() Not much variety in them, same half dozen titles over and over again. Same issue here: over the last month or so about 100 junk mails a day in my iCloud junk mail box. I’ve gone from several hundred a day to well less than 100. However, I do agree the spammy Junk emails have greatly lessened in the last few weeks. It can be sorted into Junk, but nothing done to it automatically afterward. It seems like whoever made the Rules decisions wanted to ensure Junk mail couldn’t be well controlled. That would help with some of the aggravation. If they would allow Rules to work in a mailbox other than only the Inbox in the Apple Mail application, that would at least allow deletion of Junk emails automatically, albeit after they’ve already been downloaded. If Apple would make the same Rules available on the website they make available in the application, then we’d have something. There is no “Delete Message” action available. (And for those with glacially slow internet, that’s a real issue.)Īlso, unlike the choices available in Apple Mail (app) there is no selector available “Message Is Junk Mail” in iCloud’s rules. But that will still download the emails to your computer in the process. The closest you can choose is one action that moves the email to the trash and marks it as read. You can only choose actions available in the rules pop-up menu, and nothing allows deletion prior to downloading. It’s free and it works great, easily 99.5%+ accurate.Also,I wonder if the iCloud filtering rule function can be utilised to delete unwanted emails before they are downloaded (they would need constant editing to keep up with new spam). Likewise, for the very rare spam that gets through to my Inbox, I just click a button “Delete as Spam” that teaches the add-in about something new. I press a “Recover from Spam” button and SpamBayes moves it to my Inbox. I look through the junk folder every month or so for things that have been misfiled – often two or three corporate mailing list things will wind up there. It sounds like it works just like SpamSieve. It’s brilliant enough that I’ve never bothered to get an update for it. I am sure there must be an equivalent for Windows, but this is the one to cure spam on the Mac.įor a SpamSieve-like program for Windows, I’ve been using SpamBayes (with Outlook on Windows XP) for the last three years. As it is I can happily live with it removing 99+%. Without that temporary lapse, I think SpamSieve would filter out 100% of the correct spam. I think the 99% batting average of my SpamSieve would be 1% better if it weren’t for two factors: 1) Because of product reviews my mail is more spamish than most, and 2) in the last 6 months spammers started sending image spam (the text is a picture) which as taken SpamSieve a while to figure out. For all that nothing I get a squeaky clean in box with a rare spam intruder. That’s it! SpamSieve also knows my friends from my address book, and it can be told about specific address or domains in hundreds of direct ways if you care to, but mostly I simply do nothing. Then about twice a month I go through my Junk Mail box and pluck out two or three “goods” that got through with a single keystroke that again admonishes SpanSieve of their proper state. I needed only a few minutes fiddling to get it up and running, and thereafter, I merely delete the occasional stray spam with a keystroke that simultaneously scolds SpamSieve about its correct nature and sends it to the dump. Like many of the best spam filters SpamSieve uses Bayesian tricks to learn from your in-box what kind of mail you approve of and what you hate. I’ve used some good spam filters before but they didn’t learn fast enough, or needed too much attention to keep on top of their game. My wife, who has a Mac at work, was complaining about her spam load, and I realized, “oh my gosh, you mean you don’t know about SpamSieve?” I don’t have to open the app it somehow sits quietly behind most email programs. SpamSieve is so invisible and maintenance free that I’ve just about forgotten about it - despite the fact that my email has been widely posted on the web for 10 years. I have been using it for almost three years now and its statistics show that over that time it was 99% accurate. SpamSieve is the best spam filter for the Mac. ![]()
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