![]() ![]() ![]() Spam messages are color coded so you can see the degree of spaminess (that’s not a word, but you get the idea, right). And, importantly, it actually examines incoming messages to determine which are spam and which are legitimate and SpamSieve is very good at that. It uses a blacklist (actually called a Blocklist) to prevent specific addresses from getting to your Mail’s inbox. SpamSieve uses a whitelist of email addresses for messages you want to receive (also based upon email addresses in Contacts). There’s a training process that is required to get started with SpamSieve but it’s rather simple to setup and use. Simply put, this app works better than SpamAssassin, and unlike the Junk mail filter in OS X’s Mail, it gets better over time. Second, my Mac is home to the add-on SpamSieve app for Mail (also works with many other Mac email apps including IMAP and Exchange). ![]() I’ve used it for years to help combat a growing spam problem that hits 500 to 700 unwanted email messages per day. First, I control all my email accounts on my own server and use Apache’s SpamAssassin app which traps and marks spam at the server level before it gets to the Mac. My solution is multi-fold but helps out with iPhone and iPad Mail apps, too. But no matter because it doesn’t work very well, and even if it did you still have the trouble of digging through the Junk mail folder just to be sure a good message didn’t get stuck there. The same feature should be available for Mail on iPhone and iPad. Kudos to Apple for building in a Junk mail filter to the Mac’s Mail app. What do you do to combat spam? Here’s my solution. Email addresses get harvested from Windows PCs and end up in giant spam farms which spew out crazy, worthless, but time consuming messages by the billions. It’s easy to see why people end up using Yahoo! mail or Google’s Gmail as both have decent spam detectors and segregation unwanted email messages from incoming email.įor those of us who have had email accounts and addresses for many years you know the problem. Unwanted email- spam- is worse (I couldn’t find a word that was worse than scourge I’ll take suggestions). ![]()
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