It might help to rebuild Mail’s database. If, indeed, your rules all say “Move” rather than “Copy” it sounds like Mail is malfunctioning if you are ending up with copies. I should probably mention that the other plugins I use are MailTags and Mail Act-On. I currently have emails in there that are as old as December 18 that have had the filtering process applied over and over again. It seems some reappearing messages have spamminess colors intact and others do not. It’s a bit of a mess, really, because it seems some messages reappear and others don’t. I run the SpamSieve rules via Apply Inbox Rules the messages seem to be graded and moved out of the IMAP spam folder, but then they reappear. It’s a small yield, but I’d like to keep doing it.Īfter updating to Mavericks, this process no longer works properly. I find that I save 2 or 3 messages a week by filtering the spam locally with SpamSieve. I have one account in particular that pulls in several hundred spam messages per day. I am applying SpamSieve rules to messages that appear in IMAP Spam folders by using the Apply Inbox Rules from the Messages menu. Can you explain how it needs to be modified to work? Or, perhaps you will have other advice after reading this update on my situation… I believe I would like to try this script. Perhaps an AppleScript would work more reliably? For example, this script could be modified to move the messages to the trash depending on their score. For this particular case, I don’t think you necessarily need to use a rule. That’s strange that Mail applies the rules to the same messages differently depending how you are displaying the messages. If there’s a better way to deal with spam- other than not using email- I don’t know what it is.Thanks for the follow-up. SpamSieve has plenty of Preference settings so walk through them to familiarize yourself, but it works fine right out of the box, so to speak. If your email accounts are IMAP, the offending and unwanted messages are stored in a separate folder on your Mac and that keeps them off your iPhone and iPad, too. I keep most of the same email accounts on each device, but while the Mac is running it captures incoming messages in Mail, and SpamSieve segregates the spam. The app learns over time and gets better. Just select messages you identify as spam or unwanted, and select Train as Spam from the pull down menu in Mail. Teaching SpamSieve to get started blocking spam is easy enough. It even examines encoded email and attachments. Spam messages are color coded so you can see the degree of spaminess (that’s not a word, but you get the idea, right). And, importantly, it actually examines incoming messages to determine which are spam and which are legitimate and SpamSieve is very good at that. It uses a blacklist (actually called a Blocklist) to prevent specific addresses from getting to your Mail’s inbox. SpamSieve uses a whitelist of email addresses for messages you want to receive (also based upon email addresses in Contacts). There’s a training process that is required to get started with SpamSieve but it’s rather simple to setup and use. Simply put, this app works better than SpamAssassin, and unlike the Junk mail filter in OS X’s Mail, it gets better over time. Second, my Mac is home to the add-on SpamSieve app for Mail (also works with many other Mac email apps including IMAP and Exchange). I’ve used it for years to help combat a growing spam problem that hits 500 to 700 unwanted email messages per day. First, I control all my email accounts on my own server and use Apache’s SpamAssassin app which traps and marks spam at the server level before it gets to the Mac. My solution is multi-fold but helps out with iPhone and iPad Mail apps, too. But no matter because it doesn’t work very well, and even if it did you still have the trouble of digging through the Junk mail folder just to be sure a good message didn’t get stuck there. The same feature should be available for Mail on iPhone and iPad. Kudos to Apple for building in a Junk mail filter to the Mac’s Mail app. What do you do to combat spam? Here’s my solution. Email addresses get harvested from Windows PCs and end up in giant spam farms which spew out crazy, worthless, but time consuming messages by the billions. It’s easy to see why people end up using Yahoo! mail or Google’s Gmail as both have decent spam detectors and segregation unwanted email messages from incoming email.įor those of us who have had email accounts and addresses for many years you know the problem. Unwanted email- spam- is worse (I couldn’t find a word that was worse than scourge I’ll take suggestions).
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