SpamSieve 2.1.2

posted on january 26, 2004, tag: software

It's a coincidence that today, the day I was going to post an entry about how I recently installed SpamSieve and complain that the only bad thing about the app was that it couldn't move messages to a spam folder in Apple's Mail app (therefore rendering it a bit useless to me since I don't want to see the junk mail at all, regardless of whether or not it's properly flagged), happens to be the day a new version is released that completely removes this shortcoming.

SpamSieve version 2.1.2 is now completely compatible with Apple's Mail application and is therefore finally exactly what I've been looking for to get rid of the thousands of junkmail messages I get monthly. It's a good thing I've been training SS for the past few days so that now that it's actually capable of getting rid of the messages for me, it's already quite well trained (yes, that's right—only a few days and SpamSieve is already kicking 98.9% of my spam's ass).

On a side note—if you're wondering why I don't just use Mail's built-in junk mail filter, I'll quickly explain: I did. For a full year. Up until two months ago when my filter got corrupted and Mail would quit every time I flagged something as junk (or vice-versa). The only fix was to delete my filter and start over, losing a full year of training. Since then I tried retraining it, but for some reason it just wouldn't learn so I gave up.

I'm willing to pay $25 to rid my life of spam, and that's exactly what SpamSieve is doing for me.