Existing users, 
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
Bayesian spam filter for most email clients.
Version: 2.7.7
Words cannot express my gratitude
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Contributed by: visitor1 Friday, March 20 2009 @ 12:57 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
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False positives - michaeltsai
Felix: That's an unusually high number of false positives, and it may actually be because you've been using SpamSieve for so long. In that time, the messages you've received have changed, SpamSieve's algorithms have changed, and you've built up a lot of messages in the corpus so that new ones make less of an impression. I suggest that you reset SpamSieve's corpus and re-train it with a smaller number of recent messages:http://c-command.com/spamsieve/manual-ah/do-an-initial-training
or contact technical support for assistance:
http://c-command.com/spamsieve/support
Thursday, April 16 2009 @ 06:04 AM PDT
Words cannot express my gratitude - Felix01
I agree it's good but the occasional false positive of importance demands I continue to scan the spam folder before permanently deleting the contents.According to the SpamSieve statistics page, I'm processing ~6,000 e-mails/month with a 99% accuracy rate. Still, the last 30 days had 51 false positives...nearly two/day...and that's too many to blindly delete without scanning.
I should note that I've been using the most current versions of SpamSieve since late '05 so it's had plenty of time to adapt to (learn from) my mail.
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Tuesday, April 14 2009 @ 02:46 PM PDT