I am sure there must be an equivalent for Windows, but this is the one to cure spam on the Mac.įor a SpamSieve-like program for Windows, I’ve been using SpamBayes (with Outlook on Windows XP) for the last three years. As it is I can happily live with it removing 99+%. Without that temporary lapse, I think SpamSieve would filter out 100% of the correct spam. I think the 99% batting average of my SpamSieve would be 1% better if it weren’t for two factors: 1) Because of product reviews my mail is more spamish than most, and 2) in the last 6 months spammers started sending image spam (the text is a picture) which as taken SpamSieve a while to figure out. For all that nothing I get a squeaky clean in box with a rare spam intruder. That’s it! SpamSieve also knows my friends from my address book, and it can be told about specific address or domains in hundreds of direct ways if you care to, but mostly I simply do nothing. Then about twice a month I go through my Junk Mail box and pluck out two or three “goods” that got through with a single keystroke that again admonishes SpanSieve of their proper state. I needed only a few minutes fiddling to get it up and running, and thereafter, I merely delete the occasional stray spam with a keystroke that simultaneously scolds SpamSieve about its correct nature and sends it to the dump. Like many of the best spam filters SpamSieve uses Bayesian tricks to learn from your in-box what kind of mail you approve of and what you hate. I’ve used some good spam filters before but they didn’t learn fast enough, or needed too much attention to keep on top of their game. My wife, who has a Mac at work, was complaining about her spam load, and I realized, “oh my gosh, you mean you don’t know about SpamSieve?” I don’t have to open the app it somehow sits quietly behind most email programs. SpamSieve is so invisible and maintenance free that I’ve just about forgotten about it - despite the fact that my email has been widely posted on the web for 10 years. I have been using it for almost three years now and its statistics show that over that time it was 99% accurate. There are some new cloud-based features, but overall I think “New Outlook” removed a lot of the good stuff that was in the previous Outlook, which itself removed some great features that were in Entourage.SpamSieve is the best spam filter for the Mac. It doesn’t use a Mac standard toolbar or table view. It’s not a Web app, but the design feels like a hybrid of mobile, Web, and Office. The current version of Outlook feels weird to me. When key members of the Claris Emailer team went to Microsoft to build Outlook Express and later Entourage, I would say those were best-in-class native Mac apps. There is no plan to build a web app version of Outlook for Mac. Microsoft plans to continue building and maintaining best-in-class native apps on macOS and iOS. With Outlook, you’ll get a modern and native user interface that has been designed and optimized for macOS. Whether at home, work or school, Mac users everywhere can easily add, Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo! or IMAP accounts in Outlook and experience the best mail and calendar app on macOS. Microsoft updated its roadmap on March 1 to state that AppleScript will finally be implemented this month, but I don’t see anything about full rules support. So, although everyone seems to be writing that “Outlook is now free,” I think it’s more accurate to say that there is a new free tier. Otherwise, it will only run in offline mode. You can still turn it back off using Terminal to get back features like rules and AppleScript (which are required for SpamSieve and EagleFiler) that have not yet been implemented, however that’s only allowed if you’ve paid for Microsoft 365. The new version also removes the switch to turn off the “New Outlook” user interface. However, according to the pricing page, you need to pay in order for it to be ad-free. Now consumers can use Outlook for free on macOS, no Microsoft 365 subscription or license necessary. Jeremy Perdue ( AppleInsider, MacRumors, Slashdot, Hacker News):
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