SpamSieve

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SpamSieve 2.1.3

SpamSieve 2.1.3 04/13/2004 06:14 PM
Adds Bayesian spam filtering to popular e-mail clients.

Update: SpamSieve 2.1.3

Update: SpamSieve 2.1.3 04/14/2004 10:28 AM
The Bayesian spam filter adds improved parsing of messages with 8-bit transfer data, faster message processing, support for Outlook Express 5, and other changes.

Update: SpamSieve 2.1.2

Update: SpamSieve 2.1.2 01/27/2004 11:30 AM
The anti-spam software can now move Apple Mail POP messages to the Spam folder and more.

One Week with SpamSieve

One Week with SpamSieve 02/10/2004 02:45 AM

After spending one week using SpamSieve with Mailsmith, I'm very happy with the results:

Overall Stats since installation:

Filtered Mail
809 Good Messages
731 Spam Messages (47%)

SpamSieve Accuracy
31 False Positives
23 False Negatives (43%)
96.5% Correct

Corpus
871 Good Messages
822 Spam Messages (49%)
83878 Total Words

Showing Statistics Since
2/1/04 6:39 PM

I'm not happy that almost half of the email I've received is spam, but rather am happy that it's been able to learn what I think Spam is so quickly:

Statistics in the 2nd half of the first week of installation:

Filtered Mail
485 Good Messages
453 Spam Messages (48%)

SpamSieve Accuracy
1 False Positives
6 False Negatives (86%)
99.3% Correct

Corpus
871 Good Messages
822 Spam Messages (49%)
83878 Total Words

Showing Statistics Since
2/4/04 12:00 PM

Great software... Great experience.

One Month with SpamSieve

One Month with SpamSieve 03/06/2004 01:59 AM

This is a follow up on my experience with SpamSieve installed as a part of MailSmith from Bare Bones Software:

First off, let me say that Mailsmith is truly a wonderful email client. It fits my needs perfectly, and fits my style or reading, writing and archiving email.

SpamSieve is truly an outstanding addition to MailSmith. After a week of use, it had learned how to handle spam for me quite well. After a month, I'm nothing short of stupified at how well it does its job.

Statistics since 2/1 (the day I installed it):

Filtered Mail
3239 Good Messages
2943 Spam Messages (48%)

SpamSieve Accuracy
42 False Positives
68 False Negatives (62%)
98.2% Correct

Showing Statistics Since
2/1/04 12:00 PM

Statistics since 2/14 (mid-point of the past month):

Filtered Mail
1749 Good Messages
1615 Spam Messages (48%)

SpamSieve Accuracy
5 False Positives
14 False Negatives (74%)
99.4% Correct

Showing Statistics Since
2/14/04 12:00 PM

Statistics since 2/25 (the past week):

Filtered Mail
595 Good Messages
568 Spam Messages (49%)

SpamSieve Accuracy
0 False Positives
2 False Negatives
99.8% Correct

Showing Statistics Since
2/25/04 12:00 PM

Notice how it has gotten progressively better at detecting what I consider spam? SpamSieve plus MailSmith is an amazing combination!

SpamSieve update provides many bug fixes

SpamSieve update provides many bug fixes 09/20/2004 10:26 AM
Shareware developer Michael Tsai updated SpamSieve on Monday providing minor bug fixes and enhancements to the application. Among the changes in SpamSieve 2.2.1, Tsai added the ability for SpamSieve to show the count of new good messages in DragThing 5.3 and later, if you install an integration script. Tsai notes that this script will be built into future versions of DragThing. SpamSieve requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later and costs US$25 to purchase. A demo version is available from the Web site.

SpamSieve 2.2 gives you back your inbox

SpamSieve 2.2 gives you back your inbox 08/27/2004 01:42 PM
SpamSieve 2.2 brings powerful Bayesian spam filtering to popular e-mail clients. It learns what your spam looks like, so it can block nearly all of it. It looks at your address book and learns what your good messages look like, so it won't confuse them with spam. Other spam filters get worse over time as spammers adapt to their rules; SpamSieve actually gets better over time as you train it with more messages. SpamSieve works with any number of mail accounts, of whatever types are supported by your e-mail software (e.g. POP, IMAP, Hotmail, AOL). It was named "Software of the Year" by Macworld magazine in February 2004.

See what's new in version 2.2...

SpamSieve 2.1.3 update released

SpamSieve 2.1.3 update released 04/13/2004 03:36 PM
Michael Tsai has released SpamSieve 2.1.3, an update to his Bayesian spam filtering utility for popular email clients such as Apple Mail, Mailsmith, Entourage, PowerMail, and Eudora 6...

SpamSieve 2.1.3 adds new menu commands,
more

SpamSieve 2.1.3 adds new menu commands,
more 04/13/2004 03:32 PM
Developer Michael Tsai has released version 2.1.3 of his spam filtering tool SpamSieve, which uses Bayesian filtering for better results. The new edition features new menu commands for easy installation of plug-ins and AppleScript support files, faster processing of messages, keyboard shortcuts for Apple Mail scripts, added support for Outlook Express 5, and more.

Why I’m switching to Mailsmith and
SpamSieve

Why I’m switching to Mailsmith and
SpamSieve 01/07/2004 03:09 PM
I’m switching from Apple Mail to Mailsmi th and SpamSieve.

I had grown increasingly unhappy with Mail back in the Jaguar days. Performance was a big issue, but there were also user interface issues—the big one being that I couldn’t navigate the mailbox list via the keyboard.

Another issue was that the spam filter was getting less and less effective and I was dealing with spam by creating filters again. There’s no way I want to go back to that world. (I spent five years in Eudora creating spam filters by hand.)

But I decided to stick with Mail for a while, since Mail would be updated in Panther. And when Panther shipped, there were some nice improvements in the new version of Mail, but it didn’t specifically address my problems.

And then performance got worse. Even just checking mail became this long process. At first I thought it had to be the server. But then I downloaded the Mailsmith demo—and checking email was quick.

I also downloaded Eudora and gave it a shot. I had used Eudora for many years in the classic Mac OS. But I didn’t really like it in OS X: something about the look of it these days just rubbed me the wrong way. Just a personal taste thing, I’m sure.

So I used Mailsmith some more—and I found I liked it. It was faster than Mail. It’s very scriptable and customizable—for instance, I wanted to give some of the menu commands the same keystrokes that I was used to in Mail, and I could. Mark as Spam is now shift-cmd-J in my copy of Mailsmith.

Two other wonderful features of Mailsmith: it does not display HTML email and the text editing engine comes from BBEdit. But the very coolest feature may be SpamSieve.

Simply put: it catches my spam far more accurately than Mail ever did. Mail never came close. That’s the main thing SpamSieve has to do it, and it does it.

But it goes beyond that—you can see statistics on how well it’s doing. You can look at and edit the blocklist and whitelist. (Not something I’ve had to do, though.) My favorite of these extra features is the Show Corpus command. It shows you the words SpamSieve has seen, how often they’ve been in spam vs. good messages, and what the spam probability is. This fascinates me.

For instance, the word “terminate” has appeared 13 times since I started using Mailsmith. It has appeared in spam 12 of those times. Another for instance: any email sent to webmaster@ranchero.com has an 89% probability of being spam.

SpamSieve is a generous piece of software, in that it does its job very well but then gives you the extras that make it fun. And it’s written by Michael Tsai, another small, independent developer with a weblog.

SpamSieve 2.1.4 release fixes bugs

SpamSieve 2.1.4 release fixes bugs 04/16/2004 10:25 AM
Developer Michael Tsai released SpamSieve 2.1.3 on Tuesday, but problems that have cropped up since then prompted him to make SpamSieve 2.1.4 available for download on Thursday. The new version repairs a bug that caused the application to crash when installing the Eudora plug-in in Eudora 6.0.x and fixes a regression error that prevented SpamSieve from processing certain messages. Tsai also added French localization and updated the instructions for AOL users in light of the ISP's new support for IMAP e-mail accounts.

SpamSieve 2.2 Improves Accuracy,
Notification (30-Aug-2004; 1.9K)

SpamSieve 2.2 Improves Accuracy,
Notification (30-Aug-2004; 1.9K) 08/30/2004 10:39 PM

SpamSieve 2.2 Improves Accuracy,
Notification (25-Aug-2004; 1.4K)

SpamSieve 2.2 Improves Accuracy,
Notification (25-Aug-2004; 1.4K) 08/27/2004 01:31 PM

SpamSieve 2.1 adds Apple Mail POP
support

SpamSieve 2.1 adds Apple Mail POP
support 12/09/2003 01:26 PM
Michael Tsai has released SpamSieve 2.1, an update to his Bayesian spam filtering utility for popular e-mail clients such as Apple Mail, Mailsmith, Entourage, PowerMail, and Eudora 6...

SpamSieve 2.1.2 offers full Apple Mail
support

SpamSieve 2.1.2 offers full Apple Mail
support 01/27/2004 09:14 AM
Michael Tsai has released SpamSieve 2.1.2, an update to his Bayesian spam filtering utility for popular email clients such as Apple Mail, Mailsmith, Entourage, PowerMail, and Eudora 6...

SpamSieve adds full Apple Mail support

SpamSieve adds full Apple Mail support 01/27/2004 09:15 AM
Michael Tsai's Bayesian spam filtering utility for Mac OS X SpamSieve has been updated to v2.1.2. This release adds full support for Apple Mail and a variety of other enhancements.

SpamSieve update adds new features,
improves filtering

SpamSieve update adds new features,
improves filtering 12/09/2003 06:22 PM
While you're waiting for President Bush to sign the CAN-SPAM law into effect, you can help counter spam with SpamSieve 2.1, the latest update to shareware developer Michael Tsai. SpamSieve provides Bayesian spam filtering for popular email clients such as Apple Mail, Emailer, Entourage, Eudora 5.2 or later, Mailsmith , and PowerMail. New in version 2.1 is support for Apple Mail POP accounts enabling POP messages to be marked as junk and colored.

SpamSieve Coupon Reduces Effective Price
of Ebook to $0 (14-Jun-2004; 1.1K)

SpamSieve Coupon Reduces Effective Price
of Ebook to $0 (14-Jun-2004; 1.1K) 06/14/2004 09:07 PM

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