#HOW TO USE SPAMSIEVE FOR MAC OS X#
#HOW TO USE SPAMSIEVE INSTALL#
#HOW TO USE SPAMSIEVE FREE#

My home iMac is continually checking my email.

Finally, disable spam filtering on all your other computers and devices, as that single machine is all that’s needed.

That oversight cost me some time and confusion.

( Important: As somebody incapable of reading instructions, I overlooked the fact that you need to manually edit this AppleScript, specifying the name of your email account.

#HOW TO USE SPAMSIEVE INSTALL#

Download an AppleScript from C-Command, install it in ~/Library/Application Scripts/ and create a second Mail rule to additionally process all incoming mail through that AppleScript.

Create two additional IMAP folders, “TrainGood” and “TrainSpam”, for a total of three spam-related folders on your IMAP server:.

(Note that installing SpamSieve basically involves installing the app, letting the app install the Mail plugin, and finally creating a single Mail rule that passes all incoming mail to SpamSieve.)

Install and setup SpamSieve on that machine as normal, with one exception - rather than creating its “Spam” folder on the local machine, create it on the IMAP server.

That could be a home iMac, or something like an internet-hosted Mac mini.

Setup Mail.app on a Mac that’s permanently connected to the internet.

That burden, though, was elegantly resolved this morning, as I revisited my old friend SpamSieve, and discovered a newly supported feature which provides the same single-point spam management I had with Gmail or iCloud. Indeed, it was those risks that led me to switch back to self-hosted email, even with the burden of having to deal with spam myself. And by now, we’ve all heard about the risks of entrusting your email to others. I’d go on a travel, check my email at the airport, and have to slog through hundreds of spam messages (paying 3G data rates to boot!)ĭue to the amount of spam I receive, I finally switched to online email providers like iCloud and Gmail, given their server-side spam filtering capabilities.īut I wasn’t happy about having to do that I much prefer having control of my own email. Things got further complicated when I got an iPhone and iPad, and began using Mail in mobile environment that didn’t even offer client-side spam filtering. See, although you might teach the spam filter on your laptop that a particular message is spam, the same filter on your desktop will have also seen the message and, though self-training, taught itself that it’s good! Things got tricky, though, when I switched from POP to IMAP, in order to access my email on both a laptop and a desktop computer, particularly because of the self-training nature of spam filters like SpamSieve.

#HOW TO USE SPAMSIEVE FREE#

On the client side (a Mac, in my case) I used SpamSieve-a commercial product that’s more effective than Apple’s included spam filter-to keep my inbox free of spam.

#HOW TO USE SPAMSIEVE FOR MAC OS X#

This article describes how I use the SpamSieve product for Mac OS X to provide server-side spam filtering.įor years, I hosted my email on a dedicated server leased by our company.

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