About the Minor Nuisance - michaeltsai

You can turn off the notification sound in Mail and let SpamSieve notify you when new non-spam messages arrive. It's also possible for SpamSieve to use Mail's Junk mailbox, although this is not the standard configuration because people tend to find it confusing.

beirne: I found your results surprising because most users report to me that SpamSieve produces fewer false positives than Apple Mail. If you see this post, please e-mail your ~/Library/Logs/SpamSieve/SpamSieve Log file to spamsieve@c-command.com so that I can see what went wrong.

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Saturday, February 04 2006 @ 10:42 AM PST

Not worth the money if using Mail.app - RAngol

Not exactly a scientific report based on number of spams, number of false positives, percentage of spam caught......in short you're guessing. Try filtering 125-150 messages per day and report back in a month. Mail has a decent filter. It's not as good as spamsieve.

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Monday, February 06 2006 @ 03:29 PM PST

Not worth the money if using Mail.app - kbeatty

If you are satisfied with the junk mail filtering that comes built into the Mail.app, then there is absolutely no need to seek a third party solution, as it will yield you little benefit. If however, like myself, you find that over time Mail's built in junk mail filter is less and less reliable, than you will find no better solution than SpamSieve.

In the last 3 months alone, it's filtered 108,000 spam messages for me with an accuracy rate of 99.4%. Before I went to SpamSieve, I'd estimate Mail's built in accuracy at around 80-85%. With the amount of mail I receive, it's a huge, huge difference in my efficiency. Also, I set up SpamSieve to place spam in my Junk Mail folder, so it operates in virtually the same manner as the built in filter, but with the added benefit of more accuracy and color coding.

SpamSieve is on my list of indispensable utilities.

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Thursday, February 23 2006 @ 01:22 PM PST