With both Apple Mail and Outlook, the number of false positives, i.e., good emails that go to the JunkMail folder, is very high, requiring constant monitoring of the JunkMail box a somewhat self-defeating exercise time-wise. The resident filter in Apple Mail is completely incompetent (as was the one in Outlook previously) it learns very poorly and continues to deliver the same crap from the same addresses into my Inbox. I’ve been suffering a literal spam invasion, getting somewhere around 2000 a day from my four email accounts. I would be happy to send in the log and screenies of various preferences, if that would help diagnose my situation just tell me what to send.I installed a fully functional trial version of SpamSieve on the recommendation of my friend Leisureguy a couple of weeks ago. I’m not always sure what the entries mean, so the log is only slightly helpful. The only area that is a bit confusing is reading the log for errors. I have gone through it all again, just to make sure. I had read virtually all of the material in the Help and Manual regarding my problem before I posted. This seems to be largely defeated by the spam–generators’ changing the generic part of the domain multiple times a day so that I get three or four spams from one generic domain and then later on get the same spams from a different domain. Note that the random address parts have been removed, the criteria is changed to “contains” and duplicate rules for the same generic domain have been disabled (then later removed to keep the number of rules lower.) It seems to me that this should make it difficult for advertisers to “slip through” multiple spams on the same “generisized” domain. All by itself, this would make the address filter useless the filter was made less “choosy”. Note that the random username and Random portion of the domain makes the address totally unique. This is what a small portion of the rules looked like this morning. Spam originators are employing Random user names and domain names in their addresses which renders spamsieve’s Address filtering virtually ineffective. I am having problems with both very creative ways for “spamvertisers” to avoid spamsieve’s filters, and, an apparent error in spamsieve’s functionality. I have trained spamsieve manually as explained in the manual. If you think you need to edit the blocklist, you should first check the log to see what is actually happening.įirst, let me say that I am using Outlook 2016 on a Mac book Pro with OS X 10.10.5. The Bayesian classifier should catch those messages automatically. Secondly, it should almost never be necessary to manually tune SpamSieve’s blocklist as you describe. Are you aware that Outlook 2016 works very differently with SpamSieve compared with previous versions? Since you said that there is no filtering whatsoever, that probably indicates a setup problem rather than an issue with SpamSieve’s actual filtering. If spam is getting through to your inbox, the first step should always be to check this page. I would greatly appreciate anyone’s suggestions as to what I have done wrong or what I can do to make this work. The Bayesian classifier doesn’t seem to work since there is a huge similarity/overlap between many spam messages. I have checked both the white list and the blocked list and removed a few mistakes. With all these “clever” rules in effect, still no filtering occurs whatsoever (zero hits on ALL 350+filters). Additionally, I notice that almost every message I got whose domain ended in “.info” was spam, so I’ve made a rule to kill anything coming in with that ending. My attempt to help with at least from a portion of the spam onslaught was to genericize the Name portion of the message as was done with the domain portion. Screen Shot at 08.18.10.png 766×60 20.7 KB Note that the random address parts have been removed, the criteria is changed to “contains” and duplicate rules for the same generic domain have been disabled (then later removed to keep the number of rules lower.) It seems to me that this should make it difficult for advertisers to “slip through” multiple spams on the same “generisized” domain.
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