I toyed wit the idea of doing a SpamAssassin type thing. Finally, I settled on something called SpamSieve. I was actually prompted to pick it up because its author, Michael Tsai, joined my software company, Freshly Squeezed Software. SpamSieve works on Bayesian filters, something users of Mac OS X's "Mail" app got for free in Jaguar (10.2). The basics (actually, quite a bit more) are explained in this Paul Graham article, which is pretty widely linked to already. Personally, I would disable Gmail’s spam filter so that all the messages go through SpamSieve. The problem with the blocking system is that I'll always be taking the time to add spammers to the list. This can help reduce false positives, and any that there are will be in SpamSieve’s mailbox. Another option would be to make sure that your inbox is on the Favorites Bar in Mail. At a cost of about fifteen seconds at my fastest to block one spammer, sure it may save me five or ten seconds (20-25 spams) over the life of the filter, but that's not an exceedingly great return. SpamSieve and Bayesian filters require me to do nothing other than re-marking incorrectly filtered messages (fals negatives and positives). So perhaps if some day someone at (one of the domains I was previously blocking) sends me legitimate mail, I'll receive it. On the Mac, SpamSieve allows you to block spammers.Įven if it's tagged as spam (I suspect most emails from will be), it'll be sitting in my " SpamSieve is a powerful spam filtering to the e-mail client on your Mac, see. As a result, you will not get spam on the iPhone or other iDevice. Junk" folder waiting for me to retrieve it.From a spammer after you add the email address to the blacklist, the email address will be permanently blocked. Some people trust Bayesian filters so much that they just let it delete all spam. I've got 62 false positives out of about 1300 messages right now. Why not more? Because some of my other mail filters come in first, to put mail into other folders in my mail client. SpamSieve Manual: Turning Off the Gmail Spam Filter How to Filter. Only mail that doesn't match some of those rules hits SpamSieve. So instead of sp two or three minutes per day "dealing with" spam, I now spend about 15 seconds per day looking to see whether I have any false positives (about one a day) and re-marking false negatives and positives. Mail is free, of course, if you want to use that client. What'd $20 get me? Well, about 16 hours per year. At my biling rate, let me tell you: that's a steal.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |