At a Glance
Expert’s Rating
SpamSieve Alternatives. SpamSieve is described as 'Save time by adding powerful spam filtering to the e-mail client on your Mac. One of the only standalone spam filtering softwares for Mac'. There are more than 10 alternatives to SpamSieve for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Microsoft Office Outlook and SaaS. Oct 21, 2019 Currently, SpamSieve is designed to work with selected versions of Apple Mail, Airmail, GyazMail, MailMate, Mailsmith, Microsoft Outlook, Postbox, and PowerMail. SpamSieve also differentiates itself through its unlimited use pricing model, and covers those eight popular Apple-specific email systems — including many of their past versions.
Pros
- Easy to train
- Supports IMAP and POP accounts
- Excellent performance
- Reasonably priced
- Works directly within your e-mail application
Our Verdict
If you’re looking for the best Mac-based anti-spam solution, look no further than C-Command’s SpamSieve 2.7. The program offers highly accurate filtering, is relatively simple to install, and is amazingly easy to use, particularly with Apple Mail.
If you’re looking for the best Mac-based anti-spam solution, look no further than C-Command’s SpamSieve 2.7.4. The program’s filtering is highly accurate, it’s relatively simple to install, and it’s amazingly easy to use, particularly with Apple Mail.
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SpamSieve works with a number of mail programs, including Mail (), Microsoft Entourage (), Qualcomm’s Eudora, Gyaz Square’s GyazMail (), Bare Bones Software’s Mailsmith (), Mozilla’s Thunderbird (), and CTM Development’s PowerMail ().
SpamSieve’s setup isn’t automatic, but it isn’t overly complicated, either. Regardless of which mail program you’re using, you first launch the SpamSieve application. Once the program is running, you can install either a plug-in (Mail, Eudora, Thunderbird) or AppleScripts (Entourage) directly from the SpamSieve menu. (If you’re using one of the other supported programs, installation instructions are found in SpamSieve’s manual.) SpamSieve works with both POP and IMAP accounts, and doesn’t require you to customize your account settings, unlike some of the other anti-spam tools.
After installing the plug-in, you’ll want to refer to the manual to find out what’s required to customize your mail client. In Mail, you need to create one simple rule, and disable the built-in Junk mail filtering. In Entourage, you need to create two rules; the other supported clients have varying setup requirements. The manual does a good job of walking you through the setup process, and screenshots make it easy to follow the instructions.
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After setup is complete, you should get started by training SpamSieve with an assortment of both spam and non-spam (ham) messages. You train the program by selecting a number of messages and then using an entry in the Message menu (Mail) or an AppleScript menu (Entourage) to train those messages as spam or ham (a general reference to valid e-mail). SpamSieve suggests using a ratio of 65 percent spam to 35 percent ham for best results. Because you can train SpamSieve en masse with existing messages, the program can do an excellent job of filtering almost from the minute you install it.
SpamSieve uses a combination of methods to filter junk mail. A Bayesian filter analyzes incoming messages to determine whether they’re spam or ham. There’s also a blacklist (messages that are deemed junk automatically; SpamSieve calls it a blocklist) and a whitelist (messages that are deemed good automatically), and you can add and remove entries from these two lists if you wish. Senders in your Address Book, as well as those on messages you don’t mark as spam, are automatically placed on the whitelist.
SpamSieve’s preferences are simple; a Filters tab lets you fine tune (or disable, if you wish) the operation of the filters, and the Notification tab lets you change how SpamSieve notifies you of its activities, with support for Growl ([[3.5 mice]]) included. The Training tab lets you change how SpamSieve learns about spam and ham. The Advanced tab controls SpamSieve’s overall strategy—a slider lets you select any point between conservative and aggressive; I left the slider in the middle, and found it produced excellent results.
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SpamSieve includes keyboard shortcuts for marking messages as spam or ham—select the message (in Mail or Entourage) and press control-command-S to mark it as spam, and control-command-G to mark it as good. Messages marked as spam are moved into a Spam folder, but they don’t need to stay there—the program has learned all it needs to know once the message is marked as spam, so you can delete them immediately after marking, if you wish.
The measure of any spam filter is in its effectiveness, especially with false positives—messages marked as spam when they’re really ham. After my initial training, SpamSieve did a very good job with both spam and ham. While handling over 5,000 messages, only four legitimate messages were marked as spam; roughly a dozen messages escaped the filter and had to be manually tagged. Most of these, however, were early on in my time with the program; as its filters improved, the amount of spam that made it through the filter was basically zero.
Macworld’s buying advice
At $30—either per computer or per person, which is ideal if you have more than one machine—SpamSieve 2.7.4 is fairly priced, and does an amazingly good job. If your ISP doesn’t do an effective job at blocking spam, SpamSieve will take care of the problem.
[Rob Griffiths is a Macworld senior editor.]
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Review: SpamSieve
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- I managed to dig out my license code to SpamSieve a while back and take it for a test drive. Here’s my review of SpamSieve.How It WorksSpamSieve is a spam filtering application for Mac that runs at the client-side. Unlike server-side spam filters, SpamSieve works with multiple Mac email clients including macOS Mail, Outlook, etc., and it works with multiple email accounts (including Gmail, Exchange, and IMAP). SpamSieve can adapt over time with a Bayesian filter and has whitelist and blocklist capabilities.Setting Up and Using SpamSieveSpamSieve takes a few minutes to initially setup and “train”, but once the setup and initial training process is complete, it runs well without much manual intervention unless one needs to mark another email message as spam or good. I personally tested SpamSieve with macOS Mail and Outlook. macOS Mail uses a plugin, a Spam mailbox, and a custom rule for processing spam. Outlook needs a little more configuration with per-account rules and mailboxes, plus AppleScripts for processing SpamSieve’s filtering and the ability to mark messages. It still works effectively with both mail clients, and I may test it with other mail clients as well.SpamSieve’s EffectivenessOverall SpamSieve has been quite effective. It has done an excellent job capturing most spam mail with only occasionally one slipping by, and only occasionally marking false positives. The more it runs, the more accurate it becomes, and most days it’s spot-on on what it captures as spam versus good.Most of my email accounts still have server-side junk filtering as well. My work and school Office 365 accounts have EOP plus my work Office 365 account has a third-party spam filtering service. My personal email account has a solid spam filter as well with server-side blocking. SpamSieve still works well as an additional level of spam filtering across email accounts, so I see myself continuing to use it in conjunction with the server-side spam filtering I’ve been using.iPhone/iPad Filtering and Multiple MacsI tried running SpamSieve on multiple Macs just to see how it would work, and things can occasionally become messy when multiple email clients are running SpamSieve at once since multiple copies of SpamSieve is trying to filter mail across multiple Macs at the same time. My recommendation for users with multiple Macs is to keep one Mac setup with SpamSieve and the mail client running (I’m using my old iMac to do this) to act as a “spam filtering server”, then simply open the email client on other Macs when one needs to send/receive emails. Occasionally during the processing, I’ll still receive a duplicate email, but it’s a minor issue and not a major ordeal.Since SpamSieve does not run on the iPhone or iPad, this method also works for filtering spam on the iPhone and iPad. It’s how I’m filtering spam on my iPhone and iPad.Bottom LineSpamSieve has long been a popular spam filtering app for Mac. It’s low cost ($30 one-time fee after the free trial), it works with a wealth of popular Mac mail clients and accounts, and offers powerful junk mail filtering that adapts and improves it’s accuracy over time. While I’m glad to still be using server-side junk filtering across my email accounts, SpamSieve is a nice supplement to server-side junk filtering, and another great and useful Mac utility.