Sep 16, 2008 - The best solution I've had so far is the past 10 days with the Mac's best. Most email solutions these days have some sort of junk mail filter,. Apple Mail's built-in junk mail filter is pretty good at determining what is and isn't spam.The default settings work great right out of the box, and you should give the spam fighting tools built into Mail a try before making a change.
Dealing with Junk Mail in Mac OS X Spam — it’s the Crawling Crud of the Internet. Your paper mailbox is probably full of this junk mail. Thankfully, the latest version of Apple Mail has a net that you can cast to collect junk mail before you have to read it. The two methods of handling junk mail are.
Manually: You can mark any message in the message list as Junk Mail. Select the unwanted flotsam in the message list and then click the Junk button on the Mail window toolbar, which marks the message as you see in Figure 1. (Ocean-front property in Kansas. Yeah, right.) If a message is mistakenly marked as junk but you actually want it, display the message in the preview box and then click the Not Junk button at the top of the preview box. Figure 1: Be gone, junk mail!. Automatically: Apple Mail has a sophisticated Junk Mail filter that you can actually train to better recognize what’s junk. After you train Mail to recognize spam with a high degree of accuracy, turn it to full Automatic mode, and it will move all those worthless messages to your Junk folder.
You customize and train the Junk Mail filter from the Preferences dialog box (available from your trusty Mail menu); click Junk Mail to show the settings. By default, Mail starts in Training mode, using the When Junk Mail Arrives, Leave It in My Inbox option. This setting means that Mail takes its best shot at determining what’s junk. When you receive more mail and mark more messages as junk (or mark them as not junk), you’re actually teaching the Junk Mail feature how to winnow the wheat from the chaff. In Training mode, junk messages are not actually moved anywhere — they’re just marked with a particularly fitting, grungy brown color. After you’re satisfied that the Junk Mail filter is catching just about everything that it can, display this submenu and choose the Move It to the Junk Mailbox (Automatic) option.
Mail creates a Junk folder and prompts you for permission to move all junk messages to this folder. After you review everything in the Junk folder, you can delete what it contains and send it to the Trash folder.
To save a message from junkdom, click the Not Junk button in the preview window and then drag the message from the Junk folder message list to the desired folder in the Drawer. If you don’t receive a lot of spam — or you want to be absolutely sure that nothing gets labeled as junk until you review it — click the Enable Junk Mail Filtering check box to disable it. (And good luck.) By default, Mail exempts certain messages from Junk Mail status based on three criteria: if the sender is in your Address Book, if you’ve sent the sender a message in the past, or if the message is addressed to you with your full name. To tighten up your Junk Mail filtering to the max, you may want to disable these check boxes as well. To reset the Junk Mail filter and erase any training that you’ve done, visit the Junk Mail settings in Preferences again and click Reset. Then click the Yes button to confirm your choice. To display the Junk rule and edit it if necessary, display the Junk Mail settings and click Advanced.
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It’s quick and easy to control SpamSieve from within Apple Mail (Mail.app), Airmail, Entourage, MailMate, Mailsmith, Outlook, Postbox 5, PowerMail,. SpamSieve to your mail, so it’s able to block nearly all the junk—without putting good messages in the spam mailbox. Turn off new-mail notification in your e-mail client and let SpamSieve you only when you receive new non-spam messages. Maintains a to guarantee that messages from previous correspondents are never marked as spam. Integrates with your so that messages from friends and colleagues always make it through to your inbox. Maintains a so that it can instantly stop the spam messages sent from particular addresses and catch 100% of them.
Customize the whitelist and blocklist by adding. Use a variety of, e.g.
Regular expressions, to match different message parts. Spammers encode and obfuscate their messages and use phishing tactics, but SpamSieve can decode the messages to discern their true nature.
SpamSieve looks inside attached images and documents to detect spammy content even when the message itself is virtually empty. Colors show each message is, so you can quickly focus on the if you want to check SpamSieve’s work. SpamSieve of how accurate it is, how many good and spam messages you receive, and how these numbers change over time.
SpamSieve preserves your privacy. It does not need access to your mail account login and does not transmit your mail data anywhere. All the processing is done on your Mac. SpamSieve running on your Mac can, and you can even train SpamSieve.
The lets you see everything that SpamSieve did, and why, so that you can tweak the settings if necessary. There are lots of optional for deeper customization and integration with mail clients and services. For more information, please see the, or the extensive.