SpamSieve - 2.7.7

SpamSeive 2.7.7 works with OS X 10.6.1, but not with the latest (beta) versions of Eudora 8 and Thunderbird. I had to downgrade Thunderbird to start the trial period on SpamSeive. As it turned out, that wasn't difficult. But it was a nuisance.

I had long ago tried other Spam-filtering options--but never wanting to abdicate that to ISP-offered, server-based, solutions where I couldn't locally see just what was going on--but once I found SpamSieve, I was "hooked". After the simple training process--which is clearly described--it just worked!

Bottom Line: A far better than 99% accuracy in handling Spam for me and an absolute bargain at the price. (I hope that RTM32 takes advantage of the technical support offered by the developer in their reply to RTM32's 1-star rating. I have to believe there's something basically wrong in how RTM32 is using SpamSieve.)

For what it's worth, some statistics for me for this year to date are that I received 7,772 messages of which 46% were identified by SpamSieve as Junk. (I'm sure others have been besieged by a far higher percentage.) Of those identified as Junk, there were only 13 messages that were false positives--and once I identified them to SpamSieve is "Not Junk", following examples of them were put directly into my Inbox. On the other side of the matter, only 50 messages that I considered Junk weren't, initially, so identified by SpamSieve--and once I told SpamSieve they were "Junk", their successor e-mails went directly to my Junk. As this posting's title says: Brilliant!

I just deleted from my Mail spam folder 6,580 items that had accumulated just since last November (5 months-worth).

SpamSieve so rarely makes a mistake that it's counterproductive for me ever to review its actions anymore. And I don't.

Before SpamSieve, I was constantly angry at email time. Now I don't care how much spam I get, because I never see it.

I know I sound so amazed you might not take me seriously. But try it yourself. You'll see.

SpamSieve works exceptionally well and is trouble-free. I run Spamassassin on my server, but about 10% gets through to my local computer. Spamsieve takes care of these tough cases with about 98% accuracy. No other Mac software of this genre can come close.

I thought this would be a great spam filter based on reviews, including Pogue's rave. However, after 12 weeks of use, SpamSieve still yields false positives and negatives--including missing blatantly obvious spam and/or phishing attempts. For about 7 weeks it nagged me about the "corpus" not having enough fodder to chew on. Weeks later, it is not as accurate as I expected.

Perhaps someone should tell them a sieve allows material through' it does not block it. Or is that why they named it sieve and not blocker?