At the November Portland Web Innovators meeting, someone complained about Spam. Then Ray said he’d been trying out SpamSieve, a Bayesian filter for Apple’s Mail, and it worked great.
The next morning (9:22, according to SpamSieve’s statistics) I installed the free trial and gave it a whirl. By the next day, I was sold. There are 150 Spam messages per day that I don’t have to see. The accuracy of its filtering is over 99%.
I’m told Apple will put Bayesian filtering in their next release of Mail. For me, I couldn’t wait after seeing what SpamSieve can do.
I’ve just started using Death2Spam (www.death2spam.net), and it works very well. They do domains (via MX records) and individual accounts (via POP3 proxy). Support seems good. Give it a try! ($35 a year, one month free trial)
Oh it’s great. 76% of my email, it says, is spam. 110 messages per day. And to this date, it’s been exactly 99% correct. In fact, when it happens to be wrong, I usually can tell it’s going to – for instance, if I’ve just signed up for a service, it often thinks the “confirmation” email is spam. I’m really happy with it. I didn’t know a program could work this well at catching spam!