If you are looking from a simple to use and dependable application that will enable you to filter and block spams then a great solution is offered by the handy SpamSieve software.
Although email service providers use various filtering techniques, spam still passes through and, worse, it ends up blocking important non spam emails. The SpamSieve utility uses Bayesian spam filtering that provides a more reliable and accurate filtering solution, which is designed to adapt to your email characteristics; thus effectively blocking junk and preventing good messages going in the spam folder.
SpamSieve can be easily configured directly from within your mail client. This helpful piece of software is highly configurable by allowing you to define how to interact with the message sorting rules. You will be able to create a Blocklist that is designed to block spam by content, title, address and many more characteristics that can be easily modified. Moreover, SpamSieve will even search inside the email attachments for spammy content thus blocking almost all undesired content.
To sum it all up, if you need a user friendly, highly configurable and effective spam blocking application then you will find the SpamSieve software as a great solution.
v2.9 [Apr 3, 2012]
Added support for Microsoft Outlook 2011 SP2 (a.k.a. 14.2.x). If SpamSieve can detect that you were using Outlook 2011 before, and that SP2 has been installed, SpamSieve will auto-update its scripts automatically. Otherwise, you can choose Install Outlook Scripts from the SpamSieve menu. Either way, the SpamSieve rules in Outlook will continue to work without modification.
SpamSieve now tries to detect whether its Apple Mail plug-in is damaged and auto-heal the installed copy if necessary.
If there’s an error updating SpamSieve’s Apple Mail plug-in, it now reports more information to try to diagnose the problem.
If the Apple Mail plug-in detects that it’s damaged, it will alert the user to download and install a fresh copy.
SpamSieve now checksums the Outlook script files (both the installed and built-in copies) to detect whether they are damaged.
Made a change to eliminate a particular cause of false positives for some users.
SpamSieve no longer triggers Mac OS X’s “accept incoming network connections” firewall dialog.
Added some exception guards to work around bugs in the Growl SDK.
When an unexpected error occurs and no stack trace is available, SpamSieve will now try to report the approximate location.
Improved the What information should I include when I report a problem? section of the manual.
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