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1. Then deliver the email to the following folder Inbox 7 6 7 Turning Off Other Spam Filters Many mail hosts offer SpamAssassin or a similar filter Make sure the filter is set not to add Junk Spam or another tag to the message s subject Also try to configure the filter not to move the messages out of the inbox It is actually good if you can leave the filter on but set so that it only tags the message s headers e g by adding X Spam Status and X Spam Report headers This will allow SpamSieve to incorporate the work that the server filter has done into its analysis 15 http spamassassin apache org 125 7 7 Why does a message disappear or go back to the spam mailbox after I train it as good When you train a message in the spam mailbox as good SpamSieve normally moves it back to the inbox Mac Mail programs do not automatically re apply rules or SpamSieve to old messages so normally the message will stay in the inbox However it is possible that a server filter or a mail program on one of your other computers will see the message as new and move it elsewhere The other computer might think the message is spam and move it right back to the shared server spam mailbox Or if the other computer is using a local spam mailbox it would move the message off the server and into the spam mailbox on that computer This would make it appear on the first computer as though the message had disappeared
2. 4 Now proceed to the Do an Initial Training section To train SpamSieve with spam messages select one or more of them and then choose SpamSieve Train Spam from Emailer s Scripts menu To train SpamSieve with good messages select one or more of them and then choose SpamSieve Train Good from Emailer s Scripts menu 146 SpamSieve will process new mail automatically If you ever need to manually ask it to sift through a mix of spam and good messages select the messages and choose SpamSieve Color If Spam or SpamSieve Move If Spam from Emailer s Scripts menu 8 2 Setting Up Entourage This section applies to Entourage 2004 and 2008 Please see the Setting Up Entourage v X section if you need to set up an older version of Entourage 1 Go to Entourage s Tools menu and select Junk E mail Protection Turn off Entourage s junk filter by clicking None and then OK 2 Switch to SpamSieve by clicking on its icon in the Dock Go to the SpamSieve menu and choose Preferences Make sure that Use Entourage Outlook address book is checked and click the Load button then the Entourage button 3 Choose Install Entourage Scripts from the SpamSieve menu After you quit and re launch Entourage you should see four SpamSieve items in Entourage s Scripts menu Window Help Tools About This Menu Create Event from Message E Create Note from Message N Create Task from Message ST SpamSieve Change Settings SpamS
3. A damaged corpus file can cause SpamSieve to crash at launch Corpus file damage can be caused by crashes or disk errors There are several ways that you can fix this First quit both your mail program and SpamSieve Then e If you have a backup from before the damage occurred you can replace the file Users lt username gt Library Application Support SpamSieve Corpus corpus with a working copy See the How can I open the Library folder section for how to find this file and this paget for how to restore files via Time Machine e You can have SpamSieve reset the corpus for you 1 Open your Applications folder and select SpamSieve 162http apple stackexchange com questions 62402 how to restore hidden library folder in time machine 133 2 While holding down the Command and Option keys on the keyboard double click the Spam Sieve icon Note If holding down the Command and Option keys does not cause SpamSieve to show the Reset Corpus History alert you can instead click this link before launching SpamSieve 3 Click the Reset Corpus button in the window that pops up 4 Re train SpamSieve as described in the Do an Initial Training section e You can reset the corpus by deleting the file manually 1 Open your Library folder See the How can I open the Library folder section for how to do this 2 Find the file Users lt username gt Library Application Support SpamSieve Corpus corpus Inside Library fin
4. Added the Using a Spam Mailbox on the Server section of the manual for Apple Mail Updated various graphics for retina displays If the Apple Mail plug in cannot be installed due to a folder ownership problem SpamSieve will now ask for an administrator password to try to fix the folder for you Reverted to version 1 2 3 of the Growl SDK to avoid problems with high CPU usage internal errors and crashes Improved SpamSieve s reporting of unexpected errors as well as script errors from Apple Mail SpamSieve no longer responds at all to certain invalid commands This should work around an OS bug that could lead to crashes The crash reporter can now make recommendations for you based on the contents of the crash log Added a link to the forum in the Help menu 2 9 1 April 26 2012 187 Added support for Microsoft Outlook 2011 SP2 a k a 14 2 x If SpamSieve can detect that you were using Outlook 2011 before and that SP2 has been installed SpamSieve will auto update its scripts automatically Otherwise you can choose Install Outlook Scripts from the SpamSieve menu Either way the SpamSieve rules in Outlook will continue to work without modification SpamSieve now tries to detect whether its Apple Mail plug in is damaged and auto heal the installed copy if necessary If there s an error updating SpamSieve s Apple Mail plug in it now reports more information to try to diagnose the problem If the Apple Mail plug in
5. Category ls Uncertain Junk Do the following Move Message Junk E mail On My Co mM Do not apply other rules to messages that meet these conditions mi Enabled g Click OK to close the sheet h Drag the SpamSieve Move Messages rule so that it is just below the SpamSieve Set Category rule s and above your other rules 7 Now proceed to the Do an Initial Training section e Cancel N c e To train SpamSieve with spam messages select one or more of them and then choose Spam Sieve Train as Spam from Outlook s Scripts menu e To train SpamSieve with good messages select one or more of them and then choose Spam Sieve Train as Good from Outlook s Scripts menu The keyboard shortcuts for these commands are Command Control S and Command Control G SpamSieve will process new mail automatically If you ever need to manually ask it to sift through a mix of spam and good messages select the messages and choose SpamSieve Set Category from Outlook s script menu Then choose Rules gt Apply All from the Message menu The above is all you need to know about using SpamSieve with Outlook The Outlook Customization section explains some more advanced setup options 3 7 Setting Up Outlook 2016 Compatibility Note With Outlook 2016 Microsoft has removed the ability for rules to run AppleScripts Thus it is not possible to automatically filter incoming messages through SpamSieve Plea
6. Made various improvements to the documentation Updated the German localization 2 8 8 November 17 2011 Improved compatibility with pre release versions of Mac OS X Added support for Postbox 3 0 Added support for Growl 1 3 Made various changes to improve SpamSieve s filtering accuracy The Exclude my addresses feature now lets you specify additional addresses via Terminal if you don t want to clutter your Me card in Address Book The Apple Mail plug in installer is more resilient to permissions errors Added example of using colored flags to sort spam messages in Apple Mail by spamminess Added some logging to detect obscure errors when loading SpamSieve s Apple Mail plug in Improved the French localization 2 8 7 August 31 2011 Improved compatibility with pre release versions of Mac OS X Made various changes to improve SpamSieve s filtering accuracy SpamSieve now runs as a 64 bit application on Mac OS X 10 7 Lion This allows for faster launch times and reduced overall system memory use if you are running exclusively 64 bit applications It also prevents problems caused by buggy input manager haxies You can use the Finder s Get Info window to set SpamSieve to run in 32 bit mode if you want to play classic Mac OS notification sounds or to reduce the memory use of SpamSieve itself When training an Apple Mail message in the Spam mailbox as good SpamSieve is now better able to match it up with
7. Or to manually uninstall follow these steps 1 If you are using a single Mac make sure that you ve deleted the SpamSieve rule in Mail s preferences described in Setting Up Apple Mail If you are using multiple Macs and wish to continue using SpamSieve on one of the others you wouldn t want the deletion to propagate through iCloud so you should uncheck the rule rather than deleting it 2 Quit Apple Mail 3 Delete these files Users lt username gt Library Mail Bundles SpamSieve mailbundle Users lt username gt Library Mail SpamSieve Users lt username gt Library LaunchAgents com c command SpamSieve LaunchAgent plist 32http c command com spamsieve 33http c command com sn 34mailto spamsieve c command com 15 See the How can I open the Library folder section for how to get to these files After opening the Library folder drag the three items above to the trash If you do not do this Mail will report an error saying that it could not find SpamSieve As an example to remove the first file open the Library folder Inside the Library folder there is a Mail folder Inside of that is the Bundles folder Inside of that is the SpamSieve mailbundle that you should drag to the trash 4 You can optionally re enable Apple Mail s built in junk mail filter from the Junk Mail tab of its Preferences window Airmail Uncheck the Enabled checkbox described in Setting Up Airmail GyazMail Delete the SpamSieve r
8. For more information about multi computer setups please see the SpamSieve and Multiple Macs section You can use the Change Settings Apple Mail command to tell SpamSieve not to mark messages as unread when you train them as good This may prevent other computers from seeing them as new messages It is also possible for messages to disappear from Apple Mail if Mail s database is damaged For more information please see the How can I rebuild Apple Mail s database section If you want messages trained as good to remain in the spam mailbox please see the Change Settings Apple Mail section 7 8 Does SpamSieve protect me from viruses Computer viruses generally do not cause problems for Mac users because there is no automated way for them to execute their malicious code If you receive a virus in an e mail attachment it will not do anything if the message is just sitting in your inbox Even opening the attached file is not by itself dangerous because Mac OS X will not execute code from a single file You would need to for example decompress the ZIP archive and then double click the extracted app file Even if you do all this the Mac is likely to warn you that you are launching an unknown application SpamSieve will generally classify messages with viruses as spam and move them to the Spam mailbox This will prevent them from cluttering your inbox and provide some protection if you access your mail on a Windows PC where attached exe f
9. Improved corpus speed and memory use Made various improvements to the column widths and alignments in the rules and corpus windows and added alternating row colors Fixed a rare problem where Apple Mail on Mac OS X 10 5 might hang if you trained a message as spam while Mail was downloading messages If the OS reports an error when playing a sound as an alert sound SpamSieve now plays it using the normal sound channel Increased the range of possible values for the uncertain spam threshold Improved sorting of sound names in the pop up menu Fixed bug where SpamSieve wouldn t launch if the Microsoft User Data folder had been re placed by an alias file that was invalid No longer shows the Reset Corpus History alert at launch if you hold down other modifier keys in addition to Command Option Updated the Dutch localization 2 6 6 January 23 2008 Made various accuracy improvements Rewrote internal corpus storage to work around a performance bug in Mac OS X 10 5 that could in some circumstances make SpamSieve very slow to launch Worked around a problem on Mac OS X 10 5 where the Apple Mail plug in would sometimes try to launch multiple copies of SpamSieve and then they d all self quit leading to 609 errors 195 Made some internal changes so that Use Growl global notification system works more reliably on Mac OS X 10 5 The Flash PowerMate notification feature now works with version 2 1 of the PowerMate sof
10. Is Equal to 9 qs pair com 239 7 7 06 List ID Is Equal to Discussion related to iscuss six pairlist net gt 3 The counterpart to the whitelist is the blocklist Creating Rules There is normally no need for you to manually create or delete whitelist rules because SpamSieve learns to recognize your good automatically If a lot of good messages are in your Spam mailbox your first steps should be to check the setup in your mail program and to check the log rather that to create whitelist rules Rules and Training By default the Train SpamSieve whitelist preference is enabled This means that SpamSieve will automat ically create whitelist rules when you train a message as good Once you receive one good message from a person all future messages will get through to your inbox SpamSieve will also disable matching whitelist rules when you train a message as spam This prevents a bad whitelist rule from letting through similar spam messages By default the Auto train with incoming mail preference is enabled This means that if you receive a message that SpamSieve thinks is good SpamSieve will automatically add whitelist rules so that future messages from that same sender are also classified as good Thus it is important to correct all the mistakes to avoid having incorrect whitelist rules Editing Rules 83 You can edit a rule s Header or Match Style by clicking in the corresponding column and selecting from the pop up me
11. and high Mail memory use SpamSieve s launch agent now tries to detect this situation and quit the stuck SpamSieve process allowing it to relaunch normally If this is unsuccessful the Mail plug in will report an error explaining what is going on and how you can manually fix it e The Apple Mail Server Junk Mailbox script can now move the spams to per account spam mailboxes has better error reporting and has an option to enable debug logging e The Apple Mail SaneBox script now has an option to enable debug logging e Made some improvements to the statistics database to be more resilient to errors and also report them better e SpamSieve is better at handling errors if it gets disconnected from Apple Mail in the middle of processing a message e SpamSieve will no longer try to use Apple Mail s background activity count scripting property on Mac OS X 10 11 because it s known to be broken This will reduce unnecessary error logging to Console e SpamSieve no longer creates an App Store Receipts folder since it would always be empty e Updated code for Xcode 7 1 e Fixed the size of the distribution disk image window e Worked around a Finder bug that could cause the disk image s icons to be misaligned if the AppleShowAll1Files option was enabled 2 9 22 October 21 2015 e Works with Apple Mail under Mac OS X 10 11 1 It s easiest if you update to SpamSieve 2 9 22 before updating to 10 11 1 In any case if you
12. e The iPhone supports push e mail which lets it see new messages instantly If you receive a lot of spam you may prefer to turn off the push feature That will give the Mac a chance to filter the messages before you see them on the iPhone You may also want to adjust your iPhone s notifications settings so that it doesn t show banners or play sounds when new e mails arrive e If you mark a message as read on the iPhone before the Mac sees it the Mac will not apply its rules such as SpamSieve to the message Checking the Spam Mailbox With the standard setup SpamSieve puts the spam that it catches in the Spam mailbox on your Mac The spam messages are removed from the server and stored locally on the Mac This is faster and it means that the spam messages won t count towards your server quota However this also makes it impossible to view the spam messages when you are away from your Mac Some users prefer to store the Spam mailbox on the server This way if SpamSieve accidentally puts a good message in the Spam mailbox you can access the message on the iPhone when away from the Mac To do this see the Using a Spam Mailbox on the Server section Training SpamSieve to Correct Mistakes With the standard setup you train SpamSieve directly from your Mac If a spam message gets through to your inbox you should not delete it from the iPhone because that would prevent you from correcting the mistake 16http www macworld com
13. Note You may want to empty your trash before deleting the spam messages This will prevent them from being mixed with good messages in the trash 7 Go to the Junk Mail tab of Apple Mail s Preferences window If there is a Trust junk mail headers in messages option uncheck it Uncheck Enable junk mail filtering This will disable its junk mail filter so that it doesn t interfere with SpamSieve O Junk Mail 1 E m G MM General Accounts Junk Mail Fonts amp Colors Viewing Composing Signatures Rules Enable junk mail filtering 8 Now proceed to the Do an Initial Training section e To train SpamSieve with spam messages select one or more of them in Mail and then choose SpamSieve Train as Spam from the Message menu There should be spam messages in the Trash from Step 6 which you can use for the training The messages will be colored in gray and moved to the Spam mailbox e To train SpamSieve with good messages select one or more of them and then choose Spam Sieve Train as Good from the Message menu Even with Mail s built in junk mail filter disabled Mail may show a Not Junk button at the top of spam messages you should ignore this i e always choose SpamSieve Train as Good rather than clicking the Not Junk button The keyboard shortcuts for these commands are Command Control S and Command Control G When training multiple batches of messages you should wait for Mail and SpamSieve to finish processing o
14. and click the Download button 3 Complete the installation steps in the Installing SpamSieve and Using SpamSieve sections except that you can skip the initial training 7 12 5 Does SpamSieve launch automatically Yes Once it s installed you do not need to launch SpamSieve yourself The mail client will automatically launch it as needed e Apple Mail will launch SpamSieve when it launches e The other mail clients will launch SpamSieve when they receive new e mail messages that need to be processed or when you train a message as spam or as good If SpamSieve is not auto launching as it should please e Make sure that it s installed in the Applications folder as described in the Installing SpamSieve section e Find the appropriate section to check the setup in your mail client e See the Sending in an Error Report section Although the SpamSieve application must be running in order to filter your mail it ordinarily runs in the background with no user interface visible The Dock icon can be hidden if desired 160nttp c command com sn 161http c command com spamsieve 132 7 12 6 Can I use SpamSieve with more than one mail program at a time Yes many people do this to separate their personal and business mail and you can even use the two mail programs simultaneously Whether you re using multiple mail programs or just switching from one to another you just need to follow the setup instructions once for each m
15. c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail remote training c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail save spam c command com scripts spamsieve powermail uncertain spam c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail remote training c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail sanebox 216Http c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail server junk mailbox 179 Improved the Automatically Deleting Old Spam Messages Changing the Name of the Spam Mailbox sections Show Blocklist Show Whitelist Requirements Correct All Mistakes Separate Spam Mailboxes for Each Account Use Mac OS X Address Book Redirecting Good Messages to Another Account Apple Mail Customization How should I configure the junk filter on my mail server Updating From a Previous Version and Uninstalling SpamSieve sections of the manual SpamSieve is better at repairing folder ownership and permissions SpamSieve is better able to recover from errors when creating temporary folders Made lots of code modernizations By default training a message as good in Apple Mail no longer clears its colored flags This can be adjusted using the AppleMailTrainGoodClearFlags option in the esoteric preferences Esoteric preferences links are now directly clickable in the Apple Help and PDF manual Worked around a problem where Apple Mail could hang at launch if MailTags was installed Removed spurious warnings about extra Apple Mail preferences files Improved error reporting
16. e Fixed a regression in the SQLite build that could cause SpamSieve to crash when running on a PowerPC based Mac 2 8 March 24 2010 e Made various changes to improve SpamSieve s filtering accuracy e Adjusted the SpamSieve Train as Good command in Apple Mail to reduce confusion Train ing a message as good now will only move the message into the inbox of an enabled account If no account matches the message or if the proper account is disabled it will move the message into the inbox of the first enabled account even if it doesn t match Thus the message will always move out of the Spam mailbox and it will no longer seem to disappear because it was moved into an inbox that was hidden e Made various code modernizations e Apple Mail now auto launches SpamSieve sooner to speed up the filtering of the first messages e Improved the support for server side Spam mailboxes in Apple Mail e Clarified the instructions in the Do an Initial Training section of the manual e Added the How do I make SpamSieve catch spams sent from my own address section to the manual e Expanded the Correct All Mistakes section of the manual e Improved the Apple Mail troubleshooting instructions e Improved the styling of the Apple Help e Improved SpamSieve s launching speed e Fixed a bug where in rare circumstances SpamSieve didn t filter all of the first batch of messages when using Apple Mail on Mac OS X 10 6 e SpamSieve will now
17. 27 1 Under When a new message arrives it should say Folder Is INBOX lt Account Name gt 2 When you create a new IMAP rule the pop up menu at the left will automat ically say Folder when you create new Exchange rule the pop up menu will say From and you will have to change it to Folder 3 Next you need to choose the inbox from the pop up menu at the right You may have to choose Choose Folder and type in to be able to select the inbox 4 Click the button to add an additional rule condition for each IMAP Exchange account that you have Change the pop up menus to say Folder Is INBOX lt Account Name gt as before 5 Click on If all conditions are met and change it to If any conditions are met d Under Do the following click on the button to the right of Change status and Not Junk E mail to delete the Change status action Change Status Not Junk E mail e Click on the pop up menu that says Set Category and select Run AppleScript Set Category None Then click the Script button and Select the SpamSieve Set Category scpt file This file is stored in the Outlook Script Menu Items folder which is probably inside the Microsoft User Data folder inside your Documents folder 28 gt SHARED Y PLACES Downloads ql Desktop GS mit A Applications Fj Documents Y SEARCH FOR Today Yesterday Past Week Select the script to run About Stacks pdf v 7 Microso
18. 6 Quit Thunderbird and re launch it If you now go to the Tools menu and choose Add ons you should see the SpamSieve Thunderbird Plug In listed there Next to it will be the version of the plug in The current plug in version is always listed at the bottom of SpamSieve s about box You can now delete the SpamSieve Thunderbird Plug In xpi file from your desktop 7 Choose Account Settings from the Tools menu For each of your accounts in the list at the left plus Local Folders click on Junk Settings and make sure that e Enable adaptive junk mail controls for this account is checked e Trust junk mail headers set by is unchecked e Move new junk messages to is checked 8 Now proceed to the Do an Initial Training section e To train SpamSieve with spam messages select one or more of them and then choose Mes sage gt Mark gt As Junk or click the Junk button in the toolbar e To train SpamSieve with good messages select one or more of them and then choose Mes sage gt Mark gt As Not Junk or click the Not Junk button in the toolbar SpamSieve will process new mail automatically If you ever need to manually ask it to sift through a mix of spam and good messages select the messages and choose Message gt Mark gt Run Junk Mail Controls The above is all you need to know about using SpamSieve with Thunderbird The Customization section explains some more advanced setup options 8 11 Setting Up Thunderbird 1 5 1 Choose
19. 82 2 Change Settings Entourage o sorori 4 eb be Re eR ee ee ee E 151 8 2 3 Spam Message Categories o ck ke ee ew ee ee 151 So Setting Up Entourage A ooo ia a De ee ke doni ee ee we eee 152 54 Sorting Un Eudo 4 o 502 chen eh edad Faw ened A eam eh e e 156 S41 Eud ra Culata ono ae A ee ee E A ee ee eg ad 158 So Setting Up Eudora D2 oe eee RO ee LE ee ee 158 25 sena Un Cra oe ete hae he eG A Re AE ee ee 160 2 Setting Up MailForge oor ceri 6666545804 4 aR a Rea ae we deh eed 164 BS Setting Up Outlook EXpress e s sisa 2 6 7 4 Be sa th eR A a oe ha ae 165 8 9 Setting Up PowerMal d ca s ee a e bee eee ee Oe ee eee Se ES 165 S10 cee Up Ter oers g A ee A ER ee Se Ra Soke a OS aoe 166 3 11 Setting Up Thunderbird L 5 o e lt s 6 sop se se dacb adie ed peona a ee eee ee 167 9 Legal Stuff 168 10 Version History 170 1 Introduction 1 1 What Is SpamSieve SpamSieve is a Macintosh application that filters out unsolicited mass mailings commonly known as spam Previously most people just ignored spam messages or created simple rules in their e mail programs to filter them out In recent years the spam problem has gotten worse Today s spam is harder to detect and there is more of it Without the assistance of a good spam filter you ll waste valuable time sorting through your inbox manually SpamSieve gives you back your inbox by bringing powerful Bayesian spam filtering to Mac e mail programs It s quick and easy to control
20. Click the button to add additional aliases Mac OS X 10 10 and Earlier Enter the aliases into the Email Address field separated by commas In this example the contents of the Email Address field should be john q public icloud com johnp icloud com For regular IMAP Exchange and POP accounts you can edit the Email Address field directly For iCloud accounts first choose Custom from the Alias pop up menu so that the Email Address field becomes editable Per Account Spam Mailboxes Another way to help SpamSieve find the proper inbox is to have a separate spam mailbox for each account If you are using the standard setup you have a single spam mailbox stored On My Mac If you instead 165http support apple com kb ph2622 137 use per account spam mailboxes each spam message will be stored on the same account that received the message SpamSieve can then move the message to the inbox on that same account and the message will always end up in the right place To use this setup follow the instructions in the Using a Spam Mailbox on the Server section and then follow the instructions in the Separate Spam Mailboxes for Each Account section being sure to create each account s spam mailbox on that account 7 13 4 Why do I see spam messages in my Unread smart mailbox in Apple Mail A smart mailbox in Apple Mail is not a mailbox in the sense of a place where messages are stored Rather a smart mailbox is a saved se
21. SpamSieve on your Mac for iPhone Spam Filtering Lets You Control Its Junk Filter You don t want the server s filter to accidentally delete good messages before you even see them For more information see the How should I configure the junk filter on my mail server section Can Use Your Domain Name If your e mail address is at a domain name that you control rather than at the provider s domain you won t be locked into your current host should you ever become dissatisfied with it You ll be able to easily switch to a different host without having to change your e mail address E mail is important If your mail provider does not offer the features that you want we recommend switch ing to one that does DreamHost FastMail Pair are some inexpensive hosts that we ve used and recommend Other ones that ve heard good things about are 1 amp 1 Cotse Net LuxSci and Hover 49nttp www dreamhost com r cgi 38350 50http www fastmail fm STKI 10293121 5lnttp www pair com services web_hosting 52nttp www 1and1 com email address 53nttp www cotse net 54nttp luxsci com 42 4 Customization 4 1 Rule Ordering SpamSieve works with your e mail program to filter out spam messages First the mail program downloads new messages from the mail server It then passes the messages to a plug in or AppleScript which in turn passes them to the SpamSieve application SpamSieve analyzes the messages to see whether they a
22. The statistics database is faster due to an updated version of SQLite Fixed bad pointer in header extractor that caused unnecessary fallbacks to the secondary parser reducing accuracy Added experimental support for moving Entourage messages on IMAP accounts to the local Spam folder This can be enabled by editing the scripts with Script Editor For clarity the names of AppleScripts that ask SpamSieve to predict the category of a message now contain the word if Added lots of minor clarifications to the documentation 1 3 February 11 2003 More resilient to spammers tricks for obfuscating words Can use e mail addresses in the system Address Book as a whitelist Messages sent from those addresses will never be marked as spam Greatly reduced overall memory usage as well as launch and quit times Can save false negatives to disk for later reporting to SpamSieve s developer You can edit the spam and good counts associated with a word remove selected words from the corpus and reset the corpus entirely Type ahead navigation in the Corpus window Type the first few letters of a word or number to select it and scroll to it You can hide statistics from before a set date to better see the current accuracy and spam reception rate Improvements to the Corpus window Shows all words rather than only those considered sta tistically significant Re sorting by numeric columns is twice as fast You can copy the select
23. and updates are available via the App Store application 5 1 3 Purchase When you launch SpamSieve for the first time the Purchase window will automatically open You can also open it by choosing Purchase from the SpamSieve menu Trial Demo Period SpamSieve has a free trial During the trial period SpamSieve is fully functional the only difference in behavior is that it will periodically remind you that you are using the trial To use SpamSieve in trial mode 86mailto spamsieve c command com 67 you can simply close the Purchase window The trial period lasts for 30 days After the 30 days if you haven t had a chance to use SpamSieve very much you can continue using it for up to a total of 7 launches To use SpamSieve beyond the trial period you must purchase it This entitles you to free updates and support Purchasing Click the Purchase Online button to enter the online store After Purchasing Soon after paying you ll receive an e mail with your serial number Enter the name and serial number from the e mail into the Purchase window and click Personalize You do not have to install the purchased version rather SpamSieve will then know that you have purchased and you can keep using it as before with all the preferences that you had set and data that you had entered Reinstalling a Previous Purchase If you need to re install SpamSieve you can simply re enter your Serial Name and Serial Number and
24. click Personalize there s no need to purchase again If you cannot find your serial number click the Look Up My Serial Number button This will open a form where you can enter your e mail address and look up your order information License Information A license for SpamSieve is good for one person or one computer This means that you can use it on your desktop Mac and your laptop or you and your family can use it in separate user accounts on a shared Mac If there are multiple users on multiple Macs you should purchase multiple licenses Discounts for packs of 2 10 and 50 licenses are available above A family all living in the same household can share a 2 user license If you already have a single license you can upgrade to a family license To do this purchase a new 2 user license then e mail your old and new order numbers to sales c command com and we ll refund the cost of the original license Upgrade Policy All maintenance releases 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 6 1 etc and minor feature updates 1 1 1 2 1 5 etc are free We have a track record of many such updates and they have included significant new features Major upgrades 2 0 3 0 are free if you purchased the previous version within the last six months Tf you purchased longer ago than that you get a 50 discount Note The upgrade discounts are only available if you originally purchased direct from C Command since the Mac App Store does not support upgrades Mac Ap
25. o Matches from edit Do this Never send it to Spam Select All None Export Delete delete Create a new filter Import filters Note Another setup you can use is to enter is spam in the Has the Words field One customer has reported that this works around a problem with Gmail moving sent messages to the inbox 124 7 6 4 Turning Off the GoDaddy Spam Filter GoDaddy has two levels of junk mail filtering The mail servers both Exchange and IMAP have built in global spam filtering affecting all users that cannot be disabled There are also per user additional settings that can be disabled by selecting Turn off filtering 7 6 5 Turning Off the iCloud Spam Filter It is not possible to turn off iCloud s junk filter and iCloud deletes some suspected spam messages without even putting them in your Junk mailbox Thus iCloud is not one of our Recommended Mail Hosts The Consolidating Spam From Multiple Filters section describes some ways to work around iCloud s spam filter 7 6 6 Turning Off the Yahoo Mail Spam Filter Click on the gear menu then Mail Options then Filters Create a filter that matches in the sender and delivers the messages to Inbox Filter Name Turn Off Spam Filter If all of the following rules are true Sender Contains sender match case Recipient Contains n _ recipient match case Subject Contains J subject match case Email Body Contains r _ body match case
26. s SpamSieve menu Copy the files from the For Outlook Express 5 Users folder to the Script Menu Items folder inside the Microsoft User Data folder which is likely in your Documents folder 2 Follow the instructions in the Setting Up Entourage v X section beginning with Step 4 8 9 Setting Up PowerMail 4 1 Choose Show Other Scripts from SpamSieve s SpamSieve menu Copy the files from the For PowerMail 4 x Users folder to the PowerMail Scripts folder inside the PowerMail Files folder The PowerMail Files folder is probably located in your Documents folder A A A 2 PowerMail Files A Message Database ral a T Message Database index Y PowerMail Scripts m SpamSieve Label If Spam 2 SpamSieve Move If Spam E SpamSieve Train Good F i SpamSieve Train Spam Server side Database a 2 If you want SpamSieve to label messages that it thinks are spam set up a filter in PowerMail that looks like this 165 868 6 Mail Filters ul a E Description Epamsleve Label tf Spam amada Mi Fitter incoming messages Filter outgoing messages Conditions sree P f Add 5 Dalet Esecute actions if conditions are m z Aciiona Execute Applescript H 5pam dere Label jif Spam H d Aad y d Delete 3 Mop applying filters Lo this message 3 If instead you want SpamSieve to move suspected spam messages to a Spam folder that it creates automatically set up the filter to use the S
27. which would cause SpamSieve to think that messages sent from those addresses were not spam To change the shortcut 1 Open System Preferences 2 Click on the Keyboard icon 3 Click on the Shortcuts or Keyboard Shortcuts on older versions of Mac OS X tab 4 Select App Shortcuts or Application Shortcuts on older versions of Mac OS X 5 Click the button 6 For Application select Mail 7 For the Menu Title enter Add Sender to Contacts or Add Sender to Address Book on Mac OS X 10 7 or earlier 8 Click in the box next to Keyboard Shortcut and enter your desired shortcut 9 Click the Add button 53 4 6 3 Change Settings Apple Mail You can choose SpamSieve Change Settings from Mail s Message menu to customize SpamSieve s behavior in Mail The settings are e Which mailbox should spam messages be moved to when you use Train as Spam e Should messages marked using Train as Spam be stored in a local spam mailbox rather than on the server e Should Train as Spam mark the messages as read e When you use Train as Good on a message in the spam mailbox should the message be moved back to the inbox e When you use Train as Good on a message in the spam mailbox should the message be marked as unread e Should incoming spam messages be colored according to how spammy they are darker means more spammy 4 6 4 Apple Mail Keyboard Shortcuts The keyboard shortcut for the SpamSi
28. 10 7 the file is stored at Users lt username gt Library Mail V2 MailData MessageRules plist 1 Click on the Finder in the Dock 2 Click on the Go menu at the top of the screen hold down the Option key and then choose Library 3 Open the Mail folder then V2 then MailData to find the MessageRules plist file e On Mac OS X 10 6 the file is stored at Users lt username gt Library Mail MessageRules plist 1 Click on the Finder in the Dock 2 Click on the Go menu and choose Home 3 Open the Library folder Then open the Mail folder to find the MessageRules plist file 116 7 3 Why is every message going to the Spam mailbox It is unlikely that SpamSieve is mistakenly thinking that all your mail is spam To see whether the messages are going to the Spam mailbox because of SpamSieve you can use the Open Log command More likely the messages are being moved by a mail program on another computer by a server filter or by a problem with your mail program as described below Apple Mail 1 If SpamSieve s plug in is not installed e g if it was disabled by an OS update Mail will move every message to the Spam mailbox without consulting SpamSieve To re install the plug in choose Install Apple Mail Plug In from the SpamSieve menu When the plug in is property installed and loaded you will see the training commands in Mail s Message menu See also the Why don t I see the SpamSieve commands in Apple Mail s Message
29. 2 Change the mailbox for manually trained spam messages i e when you use the SpamSieve Train as Spam command a Choose SpamSieve Change Settings from Mail s Message menu b When prompted enter the new mailbox name This does not have to be the same name as in Step 1 If a top level mailbox with this name does not exist SpamSieve will create one when you train a message as spam 3 If you are using the Apple Mail Remote Training Apple Mail SaneBox or Apple Mail Server Junk Mailbox script you may want to modify the top of the script to tell it to use your new mailbox name 9http c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail remote training S0http c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail sanebox S1http c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail server junk mailbox 58 Example 1 Spam Mailbox at the Top of the List You can put a space at the beginning of the mailbox name so that it sorts to the top of the list Mailboxes can also be dragged and dropped to reorder them in Apple Mail although this does not affect the order on other devices the way renaming does Example 2 Putting Spam in the Trash Some people like to enter Deleted Messages in Step 2 so that messages trained as spam are moved directly to the trash This is safe because you know for sure that those messages are spam Incoming spam messages can still go to the Spam mailbox selected in Step 1 so that you can review them It is also possib
30. 2 2 1 September 20 2004 e Shows count of new good messages in DragThing 5 3 and later if you install an integration script This script will be built into future versions of DragThing e Fixed accuracy regressions from 2 1 4 and made some accuracy improvements e Added Italian localization e Auto training will no longer add duplicate messages to the corpus because they interfere with undo e You can now start a new paragraph in the crash reporter by pressing Return rather than Command Return e Tries to add itself to the Launch Services database at launch to make it easier for the scripts and plug ins to find the SpamSieve application e Fixed bug where the help buttons in the Preferences window didn t work unless the main help had previously been opened e Improved the French and Japanese localizations e The Edit Log command will now open the log using an editor rather than Console if BBEdit is unavailable e Improved accuracy statistics when using Apple Mail IMAP accounts e The mailbox parser is faster and more tolerant of malformed mbox files e No longer tries to roll over the log more than once per day 207 e Fixed regression where adding to the whitelist or blocklist didn t work if a disabled rule matched the message Fixed crash that could happen when showing progress bar at launch Fixed crash when scanning System 7 format sounds Fixed bug where slightly spammy Apple Mail messages would be colored a
31. 9 What can I do if the corpus file is damaged o 133 7 12 10 What can I do if the statistics database is damaged o ooo 134 7 13 Apple Mail Specific Questions 135 7 13 1 Why does the Junk mailbox appear in Apple Mail 135 7 13 2 Why don t I see the SpamSieve commands in Apple Mail s Message menu 136 7 13 3 Why do good messages move to the wrong inbox when trained in Apple Mail 136 7 13 4 Why do I see spam messages in my Unread smart mailbox in Apple Mail 138 7 13 5 Why does the Spam mailbox in Apple Mail appear empty even though there s a number DOSIS MP v oos a a a AR A A de ee 138 7 13 6 What can I do if my Spam mailbox in Apple Mail disappeared 138 7 13 7 Why are messages marked as spam in Apple Mail but not moved 139 7 13 8 Why does SpamSieve always need an update when Mac OS X is updated 140 7 13 9 How can I rebuild Apple Mail s database o e e 142 7 13 10 How can I reset Apple Mail s junk database o e 143 7 13 11 Can other Apple Mail plug ins cause problems with SpamSieve 143 7 13 12 What can I do if Apple Mail is crashing o e e e 144 8 Legacy Mail Programs 145 2d tae Up ale cria aa A ii a a A Goce A Be 145 82 Setting Up Entourage o sr coe a 64 6 64044 A a e ae e a A 147 82 1 Entourage Custemigation o a is ece ee A a d a e a 150
32. AppleMailTrainGoodClearF lags Normally when you train a message as good in Apple Mail SpamSieve preserves any colored flags If you are using a rule such as Example 3 in Spam Message Colors in Apple Mail to set flags according to spamminess you can also set SpamSieve to clear the flags when training a message as good AppleMailTrainGoodGUIScripting AppleMailTrainSpamG UIScripting Please see the Faster Apple Mail Training section of the manual AppleMailTrainGoodGUIScripting Yosemite AppleMailTrainSpamG UIScripting Yosemite Please see the Faster Apple Mail Training section of the manual DisableWhitelist Rules When you train a message as spam SpamSieve will normally disable any matching whitelist rules to allow messages like it to be caught as spam You can also set SpamSieve not to do this so that whitelist rules are locked on unless you manually uncheck them MJT UpdaterDeleteDiskImage Normally the Software Update feature will clean up after itself after downloading a new version You can also set it to leave the disk image file in your Downloads folder Parselmages 111 112 x spamsieve default k AppleMailLaunchSpamSieveSooner amp v YES x spamsieve default k AppleMailLaunchSpamSieveSooner amp v NO 113x spamsieve default k AppleMailPlugInSetIsJunkgv YES 114y_spamsieve default k AppleMailPlugInSetIsJunk amp v NO 115 x spamsieve default k App1eMailShow0penWindow amp v YES 116 _
33. Emailer s AppleScripts folder next to the Emailer application Entourage The scripts are located in the Entourage Script Menu Items folder inside Microsoft User Data which is probably in your Documents folder Go to Entourage s Tools menu and select Junk E mail Protection or Junk Mail Filter in Entourage v X and re enable Entourage s junk mail filter Eudora 6 The plug in is located at Users lt username gt Library Application Support Eudora PlugIns SpamSieve Eudora Plug In After uninstalling the SpamSieve plug in you can re enable Eudora s own junk mail support Control click on Eudora choose Show Package Contents and move the files between the PlugIns and PlugIns Disabled folders Eudora 5 Delete the SpamSieve Eudora Helper file and also run the Uninstall Eudora Helper program that came with SpamSieve To access the uninstaller choose Show Other Scripts from the SpamSieve menu Outlook Express The scripts are located in the Script Menu Items folder inside Microsoft User Data which is probably in your Documents folder Thunderbird Choose Add ons Extensions if you have Thunderbird 1 5 from Thunderbird s Tools menu Select SpamSieve Thunderbird Plug in in the list Click the Uninstall button 17 3 Using SpamSieve There are four basic steps to installing and using SpamSieve 1 Put the SpamSieve application in your applications folder This is described in the Installing SpamSieve section 2
34. Entourage rule that moves messages that SpamSieve has marked as junk into another folder After receiving mail manually apply this rule to the messages in your IMAP account e Make a mail view of your IMAP account that looks for messages that are not junk In this way you can view your good messages without being distracted by the spam ones Rule Tips Once an Entourage v X rule runs an AppleScript or moves a message it cannot apply any more rules to that message This limitation means that extra steps are necessary to integrate SpamSieve into a complex set of Entourage rules The easiest solution is to update to Entourage 2004 or 2008 which are more flexible about how they handle AppleScript rules If you do not wish to do this here are some possible workarounds e One option is to order your rules so that Entourage applies the SpamSieve rule after all your other rules You can change the order of the rules by choosing Rules from Entourage s Tools menu and dragging the rules in the list to change their order With this approach you can filter your good messages into folders however you want Any mail that is not moved into another folder will remain in your inbox Then the SpamSieve rule will either mark the spams as junk or move them to a Junk E mail folder The disadvantage to this approach is that SpamSieve cannot catch any spams among the messages that were moved by your other rules e Another option is to add the Run AppleScript actio
35. Go menu choose Utilities 3 Double click the Console application 4 Click on All Messages at the left of the window It may be necessary to first click the Show Log List toolbar button if you don t see All Messages at the left 5 If it shows any recent error messages select them or choose Edit gt Select All Note You may need to click the Earlier button at the bottom of the window to find errors that did not occur recently 6 Choose File gt Save Selection As and save the file as My Log log on your desktop 7 Drag this file into your e mail message to include it as an attachment enclosure 7 2 2 Sending in the SpamSieve Log File SpamSieve s log file contains information about the incoming messages that it has processed as well as the messages that you ve trained it with If SpamSieve is not behaving the way that you expect the log file can help pinpoint the source of the problem The log file is stored at Users lt username gt Library Logs SpamSieve SpamSieve Log log 113 You cannot find the log file by searching your Mac because Spotlight does not index the folder the contains it Instead you can find the log file by following the instructions below To send in the log file 1 Open your Library folder as described in How can I open the Library folder Inside the Library folder open the Logs folder Inside the Logs folder open the SpamSieve folder e w w Inside the SpamSieve folder find the Spa
36. Install Thunderbird Plug In from SpamSieve s SpamSieve menu 2 Launch Thunderbird Choose Extensions from the Tools menu 3 Click the Install button in the window that just opened Thunderbird will ask you to select a file 4 Click on Desktop select the SpamSieve Thunderbird Plug In xpi file and click Open 5 Click the Install now button 6 Quit Thunderbird and re launch it If you now go to the Tools menu and choose Extensions you should see the SpamSieve Thunderbird Plug In listed there Next to it will be the version of the plug in The current plug in version is always listed at the bottom of SpamSieve s about box You can now delete the SpamSieve Thunderbird Plug In xpi file from your desktop 7 Choose Junk Mail Controls from the Tools menu You can now configure the junk filtering settings for your different accounts On the Settings tab make sure that e Trust junk mail headers set by is unchecked e Move incoming messages determined to be junk mail to is checked e When I manually mark messages as junk is checked e When displaying HTML messages marked as junk sanitize the HTML is checked On the Adaptive Filter tab make sure that Enable adaptive junk mail detection is checked 167 8 Now proceed to the Do an Initial Training section To train SpamSieve with spam messages select one or more of them and then choose Message gt Mark gt As Junk or click the Junk button in the toolbar To train SpamSieve with good messa
37. Instead it simply decides whether a message is spam and lets the mail client itself move the message from the inbox to the spam mailbox If SpamSieve thinks that a message is good it doesn t touch it at all e SpamSieve does not affect how your mail program filters good messages It moves the spam message to the spam mailbox where they stay the good messages are processed by your other rules as normal e SpamSieve does not touch or even see your sent messages It only sees the messages that the mail client specifically sends to it for analysis new unread messages that arrive in the inbox and messages that you manually train it with e Some spam filters make changes to the messages that they process e g adding subject or headers tags to indicate whether they are spam SpamSieve does not modify the messages in anyway so there is no possibility of it damaging them Troubleshooting If you are missing e mail messages or seem to not be receiving them here are some things to check 1 Because of the design described above it is impossible for SpamSieve to cause you to lose messages or to interfere with the connection between your mail client and mail server That said people sometimes want to know for sure that SpamSieve is not the cause of the problem You can see this by following the instructions in the Uninstalling SpamSieve section to temporarily disable SpamSieve or completely remove it 2 Use Web mail or a mail client on ano
38. OS X 10 7 5 Fixed a bug that could prevent SpamSieve from auto launching on the forthcoming OS X 10 8 SpamSieve is now able to recover from certain unexpected system errors on OS X 10 8 Fixed a layout bug in the German localized Statistics window Improved the Automatically Deleting Old Spam Messages instructions SpamSieve now tells the system that it can use the integrated GPU which should reduce battery use on newer MacBook Pros SpamSieve s disk image background is now displayed at Retina quality on eligible Macs running Mac OS X 10 7 or 10 8 On Mac OS X 10 6 due to an OS bug it will incorrectly display at double size Fixed a regression where SpamSieve s disk image icon didn t display properly 2 9 2 July 5 2012 Improved compatibility with the forthcoming OS X 10 8 Mountain Lion The recommended condition for the Apple Mail rule is now Every Message rather than Message Type Is Mail SpamSieve will auto update your rules at launch on Mac OS X 10 7 if Mail is running SpamSieve is better at detecting a certain type of tricky spam message Worked around an OS bug that prevented SpamSieve from properly analyzing some message attachments False negative files now have the eml extension so that they work with Quick Look etc The Setting Up a Spam Filtering Drone section of the manual has been updated with simpler instructions for Apple Mail and new instructions for setting up a drone using Microsoft Outlook 2011
39. Programs SpamSieve is not currently compatible with the following mail programs Mailbox is not sufficiently extensible for us to connect it with SpamSieve Please contact the developers and tell them that you would like to use SpamSieve with it MailPlane is not sufficiently extensible for us to connect it with SpamSieve Please contact the developers and tell them that you would like to use SpamSieve with it Mail Pilot is not sufficiently extensible for us to connect it with SpamSieve We have offered to help the Mail Pilot developers add support for SpamSieve Sending them feedback will help them prioritize this feature Sparrow is not sufficiently extensible for us to connect it with SpamSieve The Sparrow developers were interested in adding support for SpamSieve but the product has since been acquired by Google and seems to no longer be under development Thunderbird 3 0 and later Due to changes in Thunderbird it does not look like it will be possible to create a SpamSieve plug in for newer versions of Thunderbird However SpamSieve does work with Postbox which is an enhanced version of Thunderbird Unibox is not sufficiently extensible for us to connect it with SpamSieve We have offered to help the Unibox developers add support for SpamSieve Sending them feedback will help them prioritize this feature Mnttp www fogcity com lnttp www microsoft com mac products entourage2008 default mspx 16nttp
40. Should incoming spam messages be marked as read e Should incoming spam messages be removed from the mail server e Should incoming spam messages be marked with category Uncertain Junk rather than Junk if SpamSieve thinks they are not as spammy 8 2 3 Spam Message Categories SpamSieve colors spam messages in Entourage using one of two categories Junk This is for messages that you mark as spam using the SpamSieve Train Spam command and for most incoming messages that SpamSieve thinks are spam Uncertain Junk This is for incoming messages that SpamSieve thinks are spam but whose scores are below the un certainty threshold For more information about scores and uncertainty see the A spam message is uncertain if preference 151 To change the colors associated with these categories choose Edit gt Categories gt Edit Categories Normally both Junk and Uncertain Junk messages are put into the same Junk E mail folder It is also possible to separate the messages by category To do this 1 Create a new folder in Entourage called Uncertain Junk 2 Create a third rule called SpamSieve Move Uncertain Messages It should say If Category Is Uncertain Junk Then Move message Uncertain Junk 3 Drag the new rule between the SpamSieve Move If Spam and SpamSieve Move Mes sages rules To turn off the uncertain spam feature so that all spam messages are marked using the Junk category use the SpamSieve Chan
41. Spam mailbox For example set the copy of SpamSieve on your MacBook to use a mailbox called SpamSieveMacBook 4 Your mail client may be moving all incoming messages to the spam mailbox because of a setup problem Please see the Why is every message going to the Spam mailbox section 5 SpamSieve might have classified the message as spam You can see whether it has done this by using the Open Log command and looking for a Predicted Spam entry for the message How could this happen when you had trained similar messages as good If you train a message as good and then subsequently train a message from that same sender as spam SpamSieve will disable the whitelist rule and add a rule to the blocklist Then SpamSieve will classify messages from that sender as spam until you train another one as good At that point there will be rules on both the whitelist and the blocklist both disabled so SpamSieve will determine whether messages are spam by looking at their complete contents If you don t want it to do this but to instead treat all the messages from that sender as good you can add the sender to your address book or find the sender s rule in the Whitelist window and click the checkbox to re enable it You can contact technical support at spamsieve c command com Before sending your message please read the What information should I include when I report a problem section Make sure that you ve included all of the general informati
42. SpamSieve will be able to catch other messages like this if it s properly configured and trained Otherwise there is some other problem with GyazMail or SpamSieve Please contact technical support and explain what happened when you followed these instructions 135nttp c command com spamsieve support 136nttp c command com spamsieve support 106 7 1 7 Checking the Mailsmith Setup The Setting Up Mailsmith section describes how to set up Mailsmith to filter your mail using SpamSieve 1 Make sure that you are using version 2 3 1 or later of Mailsmith 2 Make sure that Use SpamSieve is checked in the preferences If that option is disabled Make sure you have only one copy each of Mailsmith and SpamSieve installed If there are any old versions in the trash empty the trash Launch SpamSieve directly from the Finder by double clicking its icon Do not use the Dock icon or an application launcher Launch Mailsmith again by double clicking its icon Open Mailsmith s Preferences window and verify that the Use SpamSieve option is enabled 3 If you are using the Leave it in incoming mail option make sure that a deposit or transfer filter isn t acting on the spam messages before your spam filter can 4 To test the connection between Mailsmith and SpamSieve select a message and choose Recal culate Spam Score from Mailsmith s Message menu Then choose Open Log in SpamSieve and verify that a Predicted
43. SpamSieve will try to find the appropriate account s inbox Click this link to disable the workaround AppleMailChangeJunkStatus Another potential slowdown is that Mail can hang when it s telling its own junk filter that the message is junk Normally SpamSieve tries to keep Mail in the loop so that when you train a message as spam SpamSieve tells Mail that the message is junk However in rare circumstances a bug in Mail or a slow mail server can cause Mail to freeze when setting the message as junk You can tell SpamSieve not to tell Mail s filter that the message is junk by clicking this link Or click this link to go back to the default behavior Mac OS X 10 9 There is a known issue where Apple Mail on Mac OS X 10 9 is slower at moving messages via AppleScript This can cause delays freezes of up to 10 seconds when using the SpamSieve Train as Spam and SpamSieve Train as Good commands SpamSieve includes workarounds to move messages faster by using GUI scripting instead of regular AppleScript You can enable one or both workarounds by using these special esoteric preferences links AppleMailTrainSpamGUIScripting Click this link to enable the workaround for making SpamSieve Train as Spam faster The first time you try to train a message SpamSieve will ask you to give it accessibility privileges Then it will ask you to add your Spam mailbox as a favorite in Mail Thereafter it will move the trained messages via G
44. This setting is not a substitute for training SpamSieve or for correcting it when it makes mistakes It is very powerful and most users should stick to the middle range Other Save false negatives to disk Show Use photo realistic Dock icon Quit when mail client quits 6 4 1 Spam catching Strategy This slider lets you adjust SpamSieve s bias The bias controls how aggressive SpamSieve s Bayesian classifier is at catching spam When SpamSieve is more aggressive it is better at catching spam messages that share some characteristics with your good mail When SpamSieve is more conservative it will be better at marking borderline messages such as order confirmations and press releases as good This setting is very powerful and most users should stick to the middle range It is also not a substitute for training SpamSieve or making sure that it s setup properly Only change the bias if SpamSieve is consistently making errors in the same direction 98 6 4 2 Save false negatives to disk False negatives are spam messages that SpamSieve examined but didn t think were spam This option causes SpamSieve to save such messages for later analysis Clicking the Show button in the Advanced preferences opens the folder containing the saved messages You can e mail this folder along with SpamSieve s log file to spamsieve fn c command com By looking at the messages that SpamSieve missed we can improve its algorithms to catch such messages i
45. Train as Good command in Apple Mail didn t move Exchange messages back to the inbox Encoded HTML mail is spam is now off by default to reduce the number of false positives Modernized the code Updated the Vietnamese localization Updated the Apple Mail script for discarding spam 2 7 6 September 9 2009 Improved compatibility with pre release versions of Mac OS X Expanded the Can I delete spam messages that are in the spam folder section of the manual Fixed a bug in the Setting Up a Spam Filtering Drone instructions Improved number entry in the corpus window Improved the reporting of unexpected errors Updated links to indicate that Mailsmith is now available from Stickshift Software Added a Console warning if the Apple Mail plug in detects that CTLoader is installed The crash reporter works better with Mac OS X 10 6 Fixed a mistake in the French localization 2 7 5 July 29 2009 Made various accuracy improvements Fixed a problem where Apple Mail running on pre release versions of Mac OS X 10 6 could freeze at launch if you had a rule involving address book groups Rewrote the Setting Up a Spam Filtering Drone instructions Added Why does the Spam mailbox in Apple Mail appear empty even though there s a number beside it to the frequently asked questions Updated the Automatically Deleting Old Spam Messages instructions to include Entourage The search fields are now scrollable The Apple Mail
46. article 1165600 how_to_convert_a_pop email_account_to_imap html 47nttp support apple com en us HT201925 40 The Setting Up a Spam Filtering Drone section describes how to set up Apple Mail for remote training If you ll be away from your Mac for long periods of time you can then train SpamSieve directly from the iPhone Correcting mistakes promptly will keep SpamSieve running at peak accuracy Troubleshooting iPhone Spam Filtering If there are spam messages in the inbox on your iPhone 1 If the Mac hasn t yet downloaded the spam messages at all you may need to adjust the Check for new messages preference in Mail Make sure that the IDLE command is enabled in Mail s preferences for your account With some servers it may help to check for new messages every minute rather than Automatically 1 If the spam messages are in the inbox on your Mac this is not an iPhone specific problem You should follow the regular Why is SpamSieve not catching my spam instructions 2 If the spam messages are in the iPhone s inbox but in the Mac s Spam mailbox try using pull to refresh to get the iPhone to resynchronize with the server It should then update its inbox and remove the spam messages from the inbox 3 If the spam messages are still in the iPhone s inbox try logging into your mail account via Web mail e Ifeverything looks good in Web mail there is likely a problem with your iPhone s connection to the mail server e If th
47. as good For more information please see the How do I make SpamSieve catch spams sent from my own address section Note You can use Terminal to add additional addresses that you want to exclude but that are not listed on the Me card Enter a command such as defaults write com c command SpamSieve ExtraAddressesToExclude array a b com d e com Changes take effect the next time you launch SpamSieve 6 1 4 Use Entourage Outlook address book With this option enabled SpamSieve will never predict a message to be spam if its sender s e mail address is in the the contacts list for Entourage or Outlook When you install SpamSieve you should click the Load button to make SpamSieve read in the addresses in the Entourage or Outlook address book The addresses are loaded into SpamSieve s memory and stored in its preferences file but they are not displayed in the Whitelist window because they are not whitelist rules Re loading Addresses Whenever you add addresses to the Entourage or Outlook address book you should go back to SpamSieve s preferences and click Load so that SpamSieve learns about the new addresses This is not necessary for addresses that have already sent you e mails as SpamSieve will automatically see those messages and add the addresses to its whitelist If you remove addresses from the Entourage or Outlook address book you should hold down the Option key when clicking Load this tells SpamSieve to forget the old ad
48. automatically remember these settings when you update to a new version A future version of SpamSieve will include a preferences checkbox for more easily hiding and showing Spam Sieve s Dock icon as well as a way to access this preference while SpamSieve s Dock icon and menu bar are hidden Mac OS X 10 6 or Earlier or SpamSieve 2 9 15 or Earlier e To hide SpamSieve s Dock icon enter this command in Terminal usr libexec PlistBuddy Applications SpamSieve app Contents Info plist c Set LSUIElement 1 e To show the Dock icon again enter this command in Terminal usr libexec PlistBuddy Applications SpamSieve app Contents Info plist c Set LSUIElement 0 If you download a new copy of SpamSieve it will have a new Info plist file so you would need to make the above change again if you still want SpamSieve s Dock icon to be hidden Opening Windows From Apple Mail When SpamSieve s Dock icon is hidden its menu bar is inaccessible Therefore a new command called SpamSieve Open Window will appear in Apple Mail s Message menu after quitting and relaunching Apple Mail This lets you configure SpamSieve s preferences view the statistics and access other parts of SpamSieve s user interface With other mail programs you will need to use the Open Window script in order to do that 7 12 4 How can I copy my training data to another machine SpamSieve s Data Files SpamSieve stores its training data in the folder User
49. future messages that are similar even if the sender is different How to Correct Mistakes To correct a mistake train SpamSieve using the menu commands recommended at the end of the Setting Up section of the manual for your mail program For example with Apple Mail you would select the message and choose SpamSieve Train as Good or SpamSieve Train as Spam from Mail s Message menu Always train SpamSieve using the menu commands Do not move the messages into or out of the spam mailbox yourself as this will bypass SpamSieve 36 Correcting All the Mistakes You must correct all of SpamSieve s mistakes or its accuracy will deteriorate over time The reason for this is that SpamSieve assumes that it classified a message correctly unless you tell it otherwise and it will learn based on that assumption unless you turn off the Auto train with incoming mail preference Also the sooner you correct SpamSieve the better By promptly correcting SpamSieve you ensure that it s always acting based on accurate information Which Messages to Train After the initial training it is not necessary or recommended to train SpamSieve with messages that are not mistakes e Do train all the spam messages that get through to your inbox Do this even for phishing messages image spams and messages from forged senders that you might think would confuse SpamSieve It s best to tell SpamSieve the truth e Do not train messages that SpamSiev
50. in Apple Mail but not moved section to the manual Fixed a bug that could cause the Install Outlook Scripts command to fail if Parallels Desktop was installed and its stub application for the Windows version of Outlook was enabled The Apple Mail SaneBox script now reports errors to Console since Mail was suppressing them and no longer times out for very large mailboxes 217 mailto spamsieve0c command com 218http support apple com kb HT6281 219Http c command com spamsieve supportitolder versions 220http www parallels com products desktop P P P P 221http c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail sanebox 180 The Software Update feature is better at explaining what you can do if installation fails Adjusted the way the Purchase window displays the remaining demo time to try to make it clearer Improved the reporting of file permissions errors and damaged sound files Improved the handling of localized strings when the application is damaged Fixed a bug where the release notes in the Software Update window were shown in the wrong font Fixed a bug where SpamSieve would auto train even if you had unchecked all of the filters Updated the Dutch Japanese and Spanish localizations We need help keeping SpamSieve s Japanese localization up to date Please contact spamsieveQc command com if you re interested 2 9 14 May 15 2014 Works with Apple Mail under Mac OS X 10 9 3223 It s easies
51. initial training SpamSieve should immediately start moving some of the incoming spam messages to your spam folder If you don t see results right away check the setup in your mail program After a few hundred messages of each type are in the corpus SpamSieve should be catching most of your spam Now you re done setting up SpamSieve The Correct All Mistakes section explains how you can keep SpamSieve s accuracy high by telling it if it puts any messages in the wrong mailbox 3 12 Correct All Mistakes SpamSieve examines each incoming message and moves the spam messages into a separate spam mailbox It leaves the good messages alone so they will stay in the inbox or be processed by your other mail rules In order to keep SpamSieve s accuracy high you ll need to correct any mistakes that it makes e If you find a spam message that s not in the spam mailbox train it as spam e If you find a good message in the spam mailbox train it as good Normally the Train SpamSieve whitelist and Train SpamSieve blocklist preferences are enabled This means that training a single message as good will make SpamSieve classify all future messages from that message s sender as good Likewise training a message as spam will make SpamSieve classify all future messages from that message s sender as spam Normally the Train Bayesian classifier preference is also enabled which will let SpamSieve learn from the message s contents so that it can recognize
52. is smarter about updating only the portions that could have changed e No longer shows Good Words and Spam Words stats e Logging has less overhead e Updates the history asynchronously resulting in faster message processing e Checks for mistakes in a background thread e False negatives are now written to disk in a background thread e Re arranged the Corpus window e Pruning the corpus now works by access date rather than by word counts Of course you can manually prune the old way by sorting the Corpus window by Total e Updated to SQLite 2 8 6 and tuned it for speed e Updated to PCRE 4 3 e Updated to eSellerate 3 5 which should fix crashes some people saw after registering on 10 2 6 e Now looks at headers of subparts of messages from Mailsmith e Time consuming operations now either have a progress bar or a progress spinner e Better at extracting malformed e mail addresses from headers e Copying rows from the Corpus window to the clipboard now uses the order of the columns in the window rather than the default column order e Fixed regression where the Entourage scripts no longer created the Spam folder if it didn t exist e Fixed potential crash with regex replacements at the end of a string e The history and the corpus files can now be aliases e Automatically trims carriage returns and other illegal characters when you paste in your name and serial number e Now saves the name and serial number to disk as soon as
53. it The Add Good script now works with the Possible Spam folder and marks false positives as unread Messages can have more than one category so SpamSieve now adds and removes the Junk category from the message rather than replacing the category This means that marking a message as junk doesn t wipe out other categories on the message Shows a progress bar while importing Entourage addresses e Eudora Integration Removed the option to use the full Eudora junk score range this setting is now always in effect e Mailsmith Integration 264 Can automatically add the recipients of the messages you send to the whitelist e PowerMail Integration 265 Can automatically add the recipients of the messages you send to the whitelist e Statistics and Log 260nttp 261nttp 262nttp 263nttp 264nttp 265nttp wiw soundsetcentral com c command com scripts spamsieve entourage load addresses c command com scripts spamsieve entourage whitelist recipients c command com scripts spamsieve entourage separate by score c command com scripts spamsieve mailsmith whitelist recipients c command com scripts spamsieve powermail whitelist recipients 209 The Statistics window shows the number of blocklist and whitelist rules and the number of spam messages received per day The date sheet has a Now button that enters the current date and time The log is now stored in Library Logs SpamSieve The Open Log command
54. lot more spam messages and also some good ones into the Junk mailbox It also deletes some messages so that they do not appear in any mailbox This affects all icloud com mac com and me com e mail accounts There is no way to turn off iCloud s junk filter and prevent it from putting messages in the Junk mailbox There are however various ways to make SpamSieve put its spam into the same mailbox that iCloud s junk filter uses SpamSieve can even re filter the messages in the Junk mailbox to rescue good messages that iCloud put there However there is no way to rescue messages that were deleted without being saved into a mailbox Since iCloud s junk filter cannot be disabled your only choice is whether or not to use iCloud s mail service as a whole If iCloud is not meeting your needs we recommend switching to a different mail provider The Junk Bar and Messages Marked as Junk It is normal for Mail to show a brown bar above some messages that SpamSieve or a server filter classified as spam SpamSieve marks the messages as junk to protect you from Web bugs Do not click the Not Junk button If the message is not spam you should instead choose SpamSieve Train as Good from the Message menu EJ You marked this message as Junk Mail Load Remote Content Not Junk 135 hal You marked this message as Junk Mail Load Images l Not Junk Messages Moved to Invisible Junk Mailbox In some cases particularly prior to Mac OS X 10 9 a
55. message 4 6 10 Redirecting Good Messages to Another Account When traveling especially with a mobile device you might want to avoid downloading spam messages from the server If your server and mobile device support IMAP or Exchange you can do this by following the instructions in the Using a Spam Mailbox on the Server section If your mobile device only supports POP you can do this by letting your Mac at home filter the messages from your main mail account and redirect the non spam messages to the account that you access when traveling The spam messages will stay in the Spam mailbox on your Mac Open Mail s Preferences window and click the Add Rule button Enter a description such as Redirect good messages to handheld Change the condition from From to Every message Then change the action from Move Message to Redirect Message and enter the e mail address of the account that you check when traveling Click OK Finally drag your newly created rule so that it is just below the SpamSieve rule 61 4 6 11 Consolidating Spam From Multiple Filters As described in the How should I configure the junk filter on my mail server section we generally recommend turning off other spam junk filters and only using SpamSieve If you choose not to do this you may end up in a situation where server filters are putting spam messages in one or more Junk mailboxes while SpamSieve puts messages in the Spam mailbox This section describes different s
56. occurs during Install Outlook Scripts SpamSieve will now try to determine whether this was because Microsoft Outlook was not installed properly If your copy of Apple Mail is damaged SpamSieve will now report this but it will still let you install the plug in The training commands in Apple Mail work better with localized mailbox names Added more logging for the Outlook Train as Good command The images in the PDF manual and Apple Help are now Retina resolution Adjusted the font sizes in the PDF manual 222 mailto spamsieve c command com 223nttp support apple com kb HT6228 224n tp c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail discard spam 181 2 9 13 February 25 2014 Works with Apple Mail under Mac OS X 10 9 2 It s easiest if you update to SpamSieve 2 9 13 before updating to Mac OS X 10 9 2 In any case if you don t see the SpamSieve commands in Apple Mail s Message menu be sure to choose Install Apple Mail Plug In from the SpamSieve menu Otherwise with the SpamSieve plug in not installed Mail will move good messages to the spam mailbox without consulting SpamSieve Made various changes to improve SpamSieve s filtering accuracy On Mac OS X 10 9 Mavericks Apple Mail is slower at moving messages to the Spam mailbox when you choose SpamSieve Train as Spam and the inbox when you choose SpamSieve Train as Good This version of SpamSieve includes some changes to speed this up It also includes workarounds
57. of a server side spam filter Troubleshooting Rules Whitelist rules will not match a message if e One of the Filters above the whitelist classified the message as spam e The whitelist rule is disabled e The mail program did not send the message to SpamSieve for analysis See the Open Log section 5 3 9 Add Rule This command creates a new rule in either the whitelist or blocklist This is useful if you want to add your own rules to the whitelist or blocklist rather than having SpamSieve learn the rules when you train it with messages For example you could create a blocklist rule to catch spam messages with a particular subject or a whitelist rule to always accept messages sent from a certain domain 6 Preferences To access the preferences click on the SpamSieve icon in the Dock Then choose Preferences from the SpamSieve menu at the top of the screen next to the Apple menu 6 1 Filters SpamSieve uses a variety of filters to determine whether messages are spam or good It consults the filters in the order listed in this window When a filter decides that the message is good or spam SpamSieve stops moving down the list Thus the order of the filters makes a difference You can see from the order that if a message s sender is on the whitelist it will be marked as good even if the Bayesian classifier would have predicted it to be spam Normally this is what you want the point of a whitelist is that you can be sure that cert
58. of specifying patterns of text for instance e mail addresses that contain numbers before the sign or subjects that are longer than 30 characters If the regular expression entered in the Text to Match column is invalid SpamSieve will color it in red and it will not match any messages http www iana org assignments character sets 98http pcre org pcre txt http en wikipedia org wiki Regular expressions 82 5 3 8 Show Whitelist The Show Whitelist command in the Filter menu opens the Whitelist window The whitelist consists of a list of rules If a message matches one or more enabled rules on the whitelist and Use SpamSieve whitelist is checked SpamSieve will predict that it is good The whitelist is most commonly used for matching messages sent from particular addresses domains or mailing lists 000 Whitelist 46 236 Rules 100 Shown Add Delete Search Date Header Match Style Text to Match v Hits 8 16 03 From address Is Equal to 9 support pairnic com 115 12 12 03 From address Is Equal to 2 billing pair com 106 7 20 04 From address Is Equal to whoisreminder pairnic com 28 8 22 04 From address Is Equal to feedback pair com 19 8 29 04 List ID Is Equal to 9 markdown discuss six pairlist net 1 12 2 04 From address Is Equal to pairlist pair com 13 4 11 05 From address Is Equal to erik olson pair com 1 4 21 05 From address Is Equal to sigma pair com 50 7 5 06 From address
59. other export laws restrictions or regulations Components The following open source components are used in SpamSieve e Regular expression support is provided by the PCRE library package which is open source software written by Philip Hazel and copyright by the University of Cambridge England 180 http www pcre org 169 e Core Foundation is available under the terms of the Apple Public Source License e Growl is Copyright The Growl Project 2004 2007 All rights reserved Redistribution and use in source and binary forms with or without modification are permitted pro vided that the following conditions are met 1 Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice this list of conditions and the following disclaimer 2 Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice this list of con ditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and or other materials provided with the distribution 3 Neither the name of Growl nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS AS IS AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTIC ULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONT
60. plug in is better at detecting when SpamSieve s Dock icon is hidden Worked around a problem where Mail could crash if you had installed two copies of the SpamSieve plug in at the same time Fixed a bug that could cause SpamSieve to freeze when applying a whitelist blocklist rule involving certain regular expressions The crash reporter works better with pre release versions of Mac OS X 10 6 Snow Leopard Fixed a bug that could prevent SpamSieve from launching Updated the Dutch Japanese and Korean localizations 2 7 4 April 13 2009 250http c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail discard spam 251http www mailsmith org 193 Improved compatibility with pre release versions of Mac OS X 10 6 Snow Leopard SpamSieve is better able to recover from corpus files that were damaged due to disk errors Improved the Entourage installer s error handling Improved the error reporting when saving the corpus Improved the troubleshooting instructions Fixed a problem where messages trained as good in Apple Mail could be moved into the inbox of a disabled account Fixed a bug that could cause harmless error messages to be logged to the Console when playing System 7 sound files The crash reporter now warns before sending a report without an e mail address You can now press Enter to click the Send Report button in the crash reporter 2 7 3 January 26 2009 Rewrote and restructured the manual to make the setup and
61. re launch it If you now go to the Tools menu and choose Add ons you should see the SpamSieve Postbox Plug In listed there Next to it will be the version of the plug in The current plug in version is always listed at the bottom of SpamSieve s about box You can now delete the SpamSieveForPostbox xpi file from your desktop 7 Choose Preferences from the Postbox menu and click on Accounts For each of your accounts in the list at the left plus On My Mac click on Junk Settings and make sure that e Enable adaptive junk mail controls for this account is checked 39nttp www red sweater com fastscripts http postbox inc com blog entry postbox_now_available_in the _mac_app_store 41 http postbox inc com 33 e Move new junk messages to is checked e Trust junk mail headers set by is unchecked It is generally a good idea to uncheck the items under Do not mark mail as junk if the sender is in since these can prevent SpamSieve from filtering out certain spam messages 8 Choose Preferences from the Postbox menu and click on Privacy Make sure that When I mark messages as junk is checked 9 Now proceed to the Do an Initial Training section e To train SpamSieve with spam messages select one or more of them and then choose Mes sage gt Mark gt As Junk click the bullet in the junk status column of the message list or press the J key e To train SpamSieve with good messages select one or more of them and
62. read The Apple Mail SaneBox script now has a configurable mailbox name The Apple Mail Discard Spam script is better at handling errors from Mail Added the Apple Mail List Mailboxes script The Copy Whitelist Addresses script can now copy blocklist addresses and now restricts itself to Is Equal to rules Fixed an error reporting bug in the Apple Mail Discard Spam script Fixed a regression in the Apple Mail Remote Training script Fixed an error reporting bug in the Apple Mail SaneBox script Handling SpamSieve will now recreate the log file s folder if it unexpectedly disappears after the ap plication has launched perhaps due to CleanApp If this affects you SpamSieve will make a note in the Console log Improved SpamSieve s error handling and recovery when there is an error creating or updating the log file The Uninstall Apple Mail Plug In command will now retry if there s an error communi cating with Mail and report a better error if it still doesn t succeed When training from Apple Mail SpamSieve will now report a better error if it detects that the necessary SpamSieveHelper application is not running If SpamSieve detects that one of its files is missing i e that the application is damaged it now presents a better error message When there is an error reading the corpus or history database the error alert now has a clickable Help button instead of inline URL text The Ent
63. section of System Preferences and make sure that Install OS X updates is unchecked Repeated Update Prompts If SpamSieve keeps telling you that a new version is available even after you ve updated you may still have the old version somewhere on your Mac There should only be one copy of SpamSieve installed and it should be stored directly in your Applications folder If you see a window saying that you need to update SpamSieve you can Command click on the SpamSieve icon in the Dock This will reveal the location of the SpamSieve app file in the Finder so that you can see where the old version is and delete it after quitting SpamSieve 2 4 Reinstalling a Fresh Copy If your copy of SpamSieve is damaged you may need to download and install a fresh copy e If you are able to launch SpamSieve you can ask it to reinstall itself To do this follow the Automatic Updating instructions in the Updating From a Previous Version section but hold down the Option key when you click the Check Now button e If SpamSieve won t launch follow the Manual Updating instructions in the Updating From a Pre vious Version section 2 nttp support apple com kb HT6022 30nttp support apple com kb HT1274 31http c command com spamsieve 14 e If you ve uninstalled SpamSieve you can always get it back by going to the SpamSieve Web site and clicking the Download button After installing it you can enter your Serial Name and Serial Number i
64. send any of them to it for analysis To see whether this problem is affecting you check the Console log as described in the Sending in an Error Report section Check for any lines that say 133http c command com spamsieve support 104 ERROR TCallScript Error 2741 occured the getScoreNewMessage We think these errors are caused by a bug in Mac OS X s application sandbox subsystem The system isn t letting Airmail read SpamSieve s AppleScript dictionary which it needs to do in order to communicate with SpamSieve It is not yet clear why most Airmail users are unaffected Some possible workarounds are e Install a beta version of Airmail 2 0 301 or later which includes changes to work around this bug e Delete the SpamSieve application and install a fresh copy e Turn off Airmail s SpamSieve integration and use another mail program for spam filtering For example you could run Apple Mail in the background to filter out the spam while still using Airmail to read and compose messages If you use the drone setup you can even train SpamSieve from within Airmail by dragging and dropping messages to the special TrainGood and TrainSpam mailboxes 7 1 4 Checking the Entourage Setup 1 Choose Install Entourage Scripts from the SpamSieve menu 2 Choose Junk E mail protection from Entourage s Tools menu and make sure it s set to None 3 Choose Mailing List Manager from Entourage s Tools menu If there a
65. server junk filter may move messages to a Junk mailbox that is hidden in Mail This happens because Mail s own junk filter is off so Mail hides the special Junk mailbox not knowing that the server is using it To fix this you can tell Mail to use a different mailbox as the special Junk mailbox so that it hides that mailbox and then makes the servers mailbox visible 1 Choose Mailbox gt New Mailbox to create a new mailbox inside your server account Call the mailbox HiddenJunk 2 Select the new HiddenJunk mailbox in the sidebar 3 Choose Mailbox gt Use This Mailbox As gt Junk Mailbox 7 13 2 Why don t I see the SpamSieve commands in Apple Mail s Message menu Normally the Message menu in Apple Mail should contain several SpamSieve commands as shown in Step 1 of the Setting Up Apple Mail section If you don t see these commands that means that SpamSieve s Mail plug in is not loaded If the plug in is not loaded you will not be able to train SpamSieve and Mail will move good messages to the spam mailbox without consulting SpamSieve The plug in might have been disabled by an update to Mac OS X To prevent this from happening it s best to update to the latest version of SpamSieve before updating Mac OS X See also the Why does SpamSieve always need an update when Mac OS X is updated section To re install the plug in choose Install Apple Mail Plug In from the SpamSieve menu Normally this is all that you need to
66. setup is correct 5 3 4 Open Log SpamSieve keeps a log of which messages it has filtered which messages you ve trained it with and any errors that have occurred The Open Log command in the Filter menu opens the log file so that you can look at it Normally there is no reason aside from curiosity to look at the log file However if you believe SpamSieve is not working as it should the log file provides useful information about what SpamSieve has done Predicted Good Spam Log Entries For each incoming message there should be a log entry that says Predicted Good or Predicted Spam Here are some questions that these entries can help you answer 1 Why did a particular spam message make it to my inbox a If there isno Predicted Good log entry for the message SpamSieve was never given a chance to analyze it e Check the setup of your mail program as described in the Why is SpamSieve not catching my spam section b If there is a Predicted Good log entry for the message the Reason will say why SpamSieve thought the message was good For example e If it says sender lt address gt in address book you might want to remove that address from address book add it to the Me card or else uncheck SpamSieve s option to Use Mac OS X Address Book See also the How do I make SpamSieve catch spams sent from my own address section e If it says sender lt address gt in Entourage Outlook address book you might want to rem
67. that SpamSieve can now accurately notify the user when non spam messages are received Also the statistics it keeps will be more complete Improved the accuracy of the Bayesian classifier when the corpus is unbalanced Made a variety of low level changes to improve SpamSieve s accuracy for instance adjusted the list of headers that are analyzed and how words are tokenized The Apple Mail Add Spam script now has an option to control whether the messages are moved to the Spam folder The Entourage Add Good script now moves messages to the inbox if they re located in the Spam folder Mailsmith users can now auto train using only spam or good messages by turning off training in Mailsmith and turning on one of the auto train checkboxes in SpamSieve Improved the importing of mbox files that do not have blank lines between the messages such as some Eudora mailboxes Fixed a bug where the the mbox parser could crash if a message had length zero Also SpamSieve now shows a progress bar while counting the number of messages that will be imported Improved the corpus and rule list displays You can now enter and leave editing mode by typing Return Type ahead works better for instance if you type g and there are no rows that start with g it will look for one that starts with f When you delete a word or rule you can cancel out of the confirmation sheet by typing Escape To avoid the confirmation sheet entirely you can del
68. the messages or stop rule processing any subsequent rules will automatically apply only to the non spam messages Example 1 Blocklisted Messages in Trash To move blocklisted messages to the trash and other spam messages to the Spam mailbox you would need three rules 1 SpamSieve Score calculates the spam score color Every Message Move Message to mailbox Spam Description SpamSieve Score If any of the following conditions are met Every Message Perform the following actions Move Message to mailbox E Spam 2 SpamSieve Blue move very spammy messages to the trash Every Message Move Message to mailbox Trash Description SpamSieve Blue If any of the following conditions are met Every Message Perform the following actions Move Message lt lt to mailbox Trash O OoOo T Cancel OK 3 SpamSieve Spam move the remaining spam messages Every Message Move Message to mailbox Spam 56 Description SpamSieve Spam If any uy of the following conditions are met Every Message Pertorm the following actions Move Message to mailbox D Spam re Example 2 Per Color Spam Mailboxes To put each color of spam in a separate mailbox you would need seven rules 1 SpamSieve Score calculates the spam score color Every Message Move Message to mailbox Spam 2 SpamSieve Blue messages with scores from 99 to 100 Every Message Mov
69. them so e It is normal for some spams to be in the server s spam mailbox rather than SpamSieve s SpamSieve never had a chance to process these messages so they are not mistakes You should not train them as spam e It is normal for there to be some good messages in the server s spam mailbox These are also not SpamSieve mistakes since the server filter put them there without SpamSieve seeing them You should not train them as good The Consolidating Spam From Multiple Filters section describes some ways to handle spam messages in multiple locations SpamSieve vs Server Filters SpamSieve is compatible with junk spam filters that run on the mail server however we recommend that most users turn them off because e In most cases SpamSieve will catch the same spam messages and more so the server spam filter is not providing much benefit Exception If your Mac and SpamSieve will often be off or disconnected from the Internet the server spam filter can help keep spam off your iPhone during that time e Server spam filters are more likely to mistakenly classify your good messages as spam Because the server filters the messages before they get to your Mac SpamSieve cannot save you from these mistakes In some cases these good messages may be deleted sight unseen or lost only visible when you log into a special spam quarantine mailbox via a Web browser e Server spam filters often move suspected spam messages to a spe
70. this e SpamSieve s launch agent process no longer runs when Apple Mail is not running which should reduce overall memory use e Dates in the log are now shown in the local time zone e Trained entries in the log now include the sender s address e The Apple Mail plug in installer now checks that file ownership is enabled on the volume containing your home folder This is necessary for proper operation of SpamSieve s launch agent and thus launching and training from Apple Mail 173 e When the trial period is over the alert now has a Help button that opens the instructions for uninstalling e The Uninstall Apple Mail Plug In command is now available even after the trial period has ended Improved the fonts in the About and Software Update windows e Added accessibility labels in the Software Update new News windows Added the following sections to the manual Checking the Airmail Setup Consolidating Spam From Multiple Filters Turning Off the FastMail Spam Filter Improved the following sections of the manual Can I delete spam messages that are in the spam folder Changing the Name of the Spam Mailbox Checking the Airmail Setup Checking the Apple Mail Setup Checking the Outlook 2016 Setup Checking the Postbox Setup Consolidating Spam From Multiple Filters Correct All Mistakes Does SpamSieve launch automatically Does SpamSieve stop Web bugs Faster Apple Mail Tr
71. to create an identical rule for each account type Click the New button Change the name of the rule to SpamSieve Move If Spam Then click just to the left of Change status to select the first action Click Remove Action to delete the Change status action Click on the menu that says Set category and select Run AppleScript Then click the Script button and Select the SpamSieve Move If SpamicmM file This file is stored in the Entourage Script Menu Items folder which is probably inside the Microsoft User Data folder inside your Documents folder 153 Select the script to run lt gt 3 Documents H Q search pence A Date Modified v LJ Microsoft User Data 9 23 08 nr v LJ Entourage Script Menu Items Today gt MEDIA Create Event from Message cE 12 3 07 Create Note from Message cN 12 3 07 Create Task from Message cT 12 3 07 SpamSieve Change Settings 3 1 07 SpamSieve Move If Spam cmM_ f 7 15 08 SpamSieve Train Good cmG 1 9 08 SpamSieve Train Spam cmS 10 31 08 ntourage Sound Sets 12 12 06 tourage Temp 9 15 08 cel Script Menu Items 3 12 08 Identities 12 12 06 Cen G A gt PLACES Y D Y y ES EX vvvy sm p GSS es Note It is important that you create the rule exactly as shown Do not add additional actions below the action that runs the AppleScript Such actions would apply to all messages not just spam ones which is probably not what you want 5 Click O
72. to move messages faster by using GUI scripting instead of regular AppleScript To enable the workarounds please see the AppleMailTrainSpamGUIScripting and AppleMailTrainGoodGUIScripting options in the Esoteric Preferences section of the manual Documented the AppleMailPlugInSetIsJunk esoteric preference as it can be used to speed up filtering on Mac OS X 10 9 Improved the Setting Up Airmail section of the manual to recommend not deleting messages from the Spam mailbox when using Airmail 1 3 1 223 Added the Why does the Junk mailbox appear in Apple Mail section to the manual Improved the Setting Up a MailMate Drone and iPhone Spam Filtering sections of the manual The AppleMailTrainSpamGUIScripting esoteric preference now works if you ve selected the trash as your mailbox for trained spam messages Optimized and fixed a possible Apple Mail crash when using the Setting Up an Apple Mail Drone configuration SpamSieve is now able to log more diagnostic information to help track down problems with Apple Mail When a Mac OS X update disables SpamSieve s Apple Mail plug in and your Mac is running in a language other than English SpamSieve is better able to detect this and auto reinstall the plug in SpamSieve now cleans up empty folders of disabled Apple Mail bundles When training messages from Microsoft Outlook SpamSieve now logs errors to the Console You can also enable extended error logging via the OutlookScriptDebug d
73. types of problems please include the following information If you have spam messages in your inbox Please do not forward the problem messages using your mail program Instead make a new e mail to spamsieve fn c command com and include the following items as attachments e SpamSieve s log file see Sending in the SpamSieve Log File e Screenshots see Sending in Screenshots M2mailto spamsieve fn c command com 112 e Any applicable false negatives files see Sending in False Negative Files If you have good messages in your Spam mailbox Please also include e SpamSieve s log file see Sending in the SpamSieve Log File e Screenshots see Sending in Screenshots e The sender address and subject for each good message that you re referring to If SpamSieve or the mail program hangs freezes or is very slow Please see Sending in a Sample Report If the mail program crashes Please see Sending in Crash Log Files For other types of problems please describe what you did what happened and what did you expect to happen instead This will make it easier for us to understand the issue that you are reporting 7 2 1 Sending in an Error Report If an error window appeared on your screen please include the exact text of the error message in your e mail It may help to use Copy and Paste Please also send in any errors that were reported in the system log 1 Click on Finder in the Dock 2 From the
74. up to date This is an easy way to download and re install a fresh copy of SpamSieve if yours is damaged Added the AppleMailTrainGoodClearFlags esoteric preference for people who use colored flags on their spam messages for purposes other than indicating the spam level If Microsoft Outlook is not able to retrieve a message s source SpamSieve will now log the message s subject to Console Worked around an OS bug that could cause a crash when SpamSieve was processing certain types of multi part e mail messages Improved various error messages Tried to work around a crash by disabling JavaScript in the release notes view 2 9 11 November 7 2013 Works with the Mail Update for Mavericks 1 0728 Added a workaround for some rare cases where SpamSieve s commands were not showing in Apple Mail s Message menu Updated the Apple Mail Discard Spam script Added some defensive coding to protect against a bug in NSDispatchData that could cause a crash on Mavericks Made various updates and improvements to the manual 2 9 10 October 22 2013 SpamSieve is now compatible with the updated GM build of Mac OS X 10 9 Mavericks It is recommended that you update to SpamSieve 2 9 10 before installing Mavericks If you ve updated to Mavericks first and you don t see the SpamSieve commands in Apple Mail s Message menu be sure to choose Install Apple Mail Plug In from the SpamSieve menu The How can I hide SpamSieve s Dock icon sec
75. www eudora com email 17http macsimizesoftware com 1Shttp www microsoft com mac otherproducts outlookexpress outlookexpress aspx pid outlookexpress 19http www mozillamessaging com en US thunderbird all older html 20http www mailboxapp com 21http www mailboxapp com contact 22http mailplaneapp com 23 mailto supportOmailplaneapp com 24http www mailpilot co 25http sparrowmailapp com 26Http www postbox inc com 11 Mail Program Differences SpamSieve works roughly the same way with each mail program This section describes features that are only available in certain mail programs Auto Deletion These mail programs support automatically deleting old Spam messages Apple Mail Entourage Outlook not Outlook 2016 Postbox Thunderbird Complete Message Access These mail programs allow for more accurate filtering because they let SpamSieve access the entire raw source of each message including the attachments Apple Mail Airmail Entourage GyazMail MailMate Mailsmith Outlook Outlook Express Drone Support These mail programs work with the setup described in Setting Up a Spam Filtering Drone Apple Mail MailMate Outlook not Outlook 2016 Refiltering Messages These mail programs let you manually re apply SpamSieve to old messages Apple Mail Emailer Entourage GyazMail Mailsmith Outlook Outlook Express Postbox PowerMail Thunderbird Spam Levels These mail programs can display spam messa
76. you train SpamSieve with examples of your good mail and your spam When you receive a new message SpamSieve looks at how often its words occur in spam messages vs good messages Lots of spammy words mean that the message is probably spam However the presence of words that are common in your normal e mail but rare in spam messages can tip the scale the other way This fuzzy approach allows SpamSieve to catch nearly every spam message yet produce very few false positives A false positive is a good message mistakenly identified as spam Most users consider false positives to be much worse than false negatives spam messages that the user has to see Because you train SpamSieve with your own mail you have full control If SpamSieve makes a mistake you can train it with the message in question so that in the future it will do better Further since spammers don t have access to the messages you trained SpamSieve with they have no way of knowing how to change their messages to get through Whereas other spam filters become less effective as spammers figure out their rules SpamSieve becomes more effective over time because it has a larger corpus of your messages to work from lhttp www paulgraham com spam htm1 1 3 Integration Separate from the issue of identifying spam messages is the issue of how to prevent you from having to deal with them There are basically six kinds of anti spam software for doing this Challenge Response S
77. 3 5 Setting Up Mailsmith 1 Open Mailsmith s Preferences window and click on the Spam Handling pane Make sure that Use SpamSieve is checked Uncheck Honor SpamAssassin and BogoFilter headers 2 Now proceed to the Do an Initial Training section e To train SpamSieve with spam messages select one or more of them and then choose Mark as Spam from Mailsmith s Message menu e To train SpamSieve with good messages select one or more of them and then choose Mark as Non Spam from Mailsmith s Message menu If you ever need to manually ask it to sift through a mix of spam and good messages choose Recalculate Spam Score from the Message menu The above is all you need to know about using SpamSieve with Mailsmith The Mailsmith Customization section explains some more advanced setup options For more information about using SpamSieve with Mailsmith please see Chapter 8 of the Mailsmith User Manual 3 6 Setting Up Outlook These instructions apply to Outlook 2011 14 x from Microsoft Office 2011 If you are using Outlook 2016 15 x from Office 365 please see the Setting Up Outlook 2016 section If you re using the initial release of Office 2011 please see the Setting Up Outlook 14 0 section If you are using Microsoft Entourage please see the Setting Up Entourage section 1 Go to Outlook s Tools menu and select Junk E mail Protection Turn off Outlook s junk filter by clicking None and then OK 2 Switch to SpamSieve by clicking o
78. 5 3 or later SpamSieve can show the message count in its tile in DragThing s process dock 6 2 5 Flash PowerMate If you have a Griffin PowerMate this option will make it flash when new good messages arrive The flashing will stop when you activate SpamSieve or your mail program This feature is compatible with version 3 0 of the PowerMate software 6 2 6 A spam message is uncertain if SpamSieve assigns each message a score between 0 and 100 and it considers messages with scores 50 or greater to be spam The farther the score is away from the middle 50 the more confident SpamSieve is about whether the message is spam Put another way if you are trying to double check SpamSieve s work you should focus your attention on the messages with scores closer to 50 If SpamSieve has made any mistakes it is more likely to be with messages scored at 70 or 30 than with those scored at 95 or 5 Spam messages that SpamSieve thought were good false negatives are generally easy for humans to spot They tend to stick out amongst lots of good messages in the inbox 105http www dragthing com 106nttp store griffintechnology com powermate 92 Good messages that SpamSieve thought were spam false positives are harder to spot They can be buried amongst piles of messages in the spam folder To help you find these messages SpamSieve can notify you about uncertain spam messages 1 e the messages in the spam folder that you should focus your
79. ACES gt 3 Office 2011 AutoRecovery 6 23 10 Downloads gt 3 Office 2011 Identities 6 23 10 F Desktop v 3 Outlook Script Menu Items 3 31 PM A mit Read Me pdf 7 21 10 A Applications 7 SpamSieve Change Settings scpt 7 21 10 y Documents fi SpamSieve Set Category scpt 7 21 10 gt SpamSieve Train as Good cmG scpt 7 21 10 eras gt SpamSieve Train as Spam cmS scpt 7 21 10 Cn gt E Outlook Sound Sets 8 6 10 Yesterday gt 3 Saved Attachments 3 22 PM Past Week gt 3 Word Script Menu Items 6 23 10 f Make sure that Do not apply other rules is unchecked For a POP account the rule should now look like this if all criteria are met z gt 162 For an IMAP or Exchange account the rule should now look like this Rule name SpamSieve Set Category if 7 Gp Add Criterion NM Remove Criterion Execute if all criteria are met B Folder beg is i INBOX AccountName E Then _ AP Add Action Run AppleScript SpamSieve Set Category scpt _ Do not apply other rules to messages that meet these criteria g Click OK to close the Edit Rule dialog h Drag the SpamSieve Set Category rule to the top of the list 5 In the Rules window as before repeat the following steps for each type of account that you have a Click the button Change the name of the rule to SpamSieve Move Messages b Click on the pop up menu fo
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81. K and drag the SpamSieve rule to the top of the list 6 Now proceed to the Do an Initial Training section To train SpamSieve with spam messages select one or more of them and then choose SpamSieve Train Spam from Entourage s Scripts menu To train SpamSieve with good messages select one or more of them and then choose SpamSieve Train Good from Entourage s Scripts menu The keyboard shortcuts for these commands are Command Control S and Command Control G SpamSieve will process new mail automatically If you ever need to manually ask it to sift through a mix of spam and good messages select the messages and choose Apply Rule p All Rules from the Message menu The above is all you need to know about using SpamSieve with Entourage The Entourage Customization section explains some more advanced setup options IMAP Accounts 154 Entourage v X does not support moving IMAP or Hotmail or Exchange messages via AppleScript Thus if you have one of these types of accounts the spam messages will not be moved to your Junk E mail folder The best solution is to update to Entourage 2004 or 2008 which do not have this limitation If you do not wish to do this here are some possible workarounds e If you do not require IMAP you can try creating a POP account in Entourage and re entering your account information Many IMAP accounts also work via POP and this will allow SpamSieve to move the messages that it thinks are spam e Create an
82. Known insecure email hosts relays are always blocked xbl Possible spam is placed in your Junk Mail folder Extremely probable spam is discarded without you seeing it Email from people in your address book is definite not spam ef White list only Use with caution Known insecure email hosts relays are always blocked xbl Only email that comes from someone listed in your address book is let through All other email is discarded Custom Advanced users only Known insecure email hosts relays are always blocked xbl Completely customise all other spam settings 4 In the Advanced Spam Protection Settings make sure that then discard then move to and then change subject to are all unchecked 121 Advanced Spam Protection Settings Address Book If email From address is in your address book then Always accept Weight by subtracting 10 0 Definite Spam if score is gt 15 0 C then discard Probable Spam if score is gt 5 0 then move to Junk Mail Possible Spam if score is gt 5 0 __ then change subject to lt Unchanged gt re Backscatter Action Nothing 7 6 3 Turning Off the Gmail Spam Filter 1 Log into http gmail com in your browser go to Gmail s Settings and click on Filters Settings o General Labels Inbox Accounts and Import Filters Forwarding and POP IMAP Chat Web Clips Labs Offline Themes The following filters are applied to all incoming mail Select All None Ex
83. Mac OS X 10 10 Worked around a bug in Mac OS X 10 10 that could cause SpamSieve to freeze at launch Worked around a string encoding conversion bug in Mac OS X 10 10 The crash reporter now reports more information if it couldn t find any matching crash log files 2 9 17 October 16 2014 Works with Apple Mail under Mac OS X 10 10 Yosemite It s easiest if you update to SpamSieve 2 9 17 before updating to Mac OS X 10 10 In any case if you don t see the SpamSieve commands in Apple Mail s Message menu be sure to choose Install Apple Mail Plug In from the SpamSieve menu Otherwise with the SpamSieve plug in not installed Mail will move good messages to the spam mailbox without consulting SpamSieve Added the following sections to the manual Does SpamSieve stop Web bugs Why do good messages move to the wrong inbox when trained in Apple Mail Why does a message disappear or go back to the spam mailbox after I train it as good Does SpamSieve prevent me from receiving messages Can other Apple Mail plug ins cause problems with SpamSieve Improved the following sections of the manual among others Correct All Mistakes How should I configure the junk filter on my mail server iPhone Spam Filtering 204nttp blogs office com 2014 10 31 new out1look mac available office 365 customers 205http c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail discard spam 206nttp c command com go yosemite 178
84. Make sure that Do not apply other rules is unchecked The rule should now look like 148 Rule name SpamSieve Move If Spam If op Add Criterion J Remove Criterion Execute if all criteria are met H Then Run Applescript TE SpamSieve Move If Spam cmm o Do not apply other rules to messages that meet these criteria F enabled CD Click OK to close the Edit Rule dialog Note It is important that you create the rule exactly as shown Do not add additional actions below the action that runs the AppleScript Such actions would apply to all messages not just spam ones which is probably not what you want Note If you are using Gmail via IMAP or Exchange with Entourage change the criterion from All messages to Folder Is Inbox lt Account Name gt Click the New button to create a second rule Change the name of the rule to SpamSieve Move Messages Click on All messages and change it to say Category Is Junk Click Add Criterion Click on From for the new criterion and change it to say Category Is Uncertain Junk Click on if all criteria are met and change it to if any criteria are met Click on the empty space between Change status and Not junk E mail Click Remove Action to delete the Change status action Click on the menu that says Set category and select Move message Change the menu at the right from Inbox to Junk E mail The rule should now look like 149 Rule name Spam
85. Mate In the Preferences window click on the Security tab Make sure that Image Blocking is checked and set to All Messages Mailsmith Mailsmith does not display remote images so no setting is necessary Outlook In the Preferences window click on Reading Make sure that Automatically download pictures from the Internet is set to Never Postbox In the Preferences window click on the Privacy tab Make sure that Block loading of remote images in mail messages is checked 127 PowerMail In the Preferences window click on HTML reader Make sure that Download external pictures if connected for non spam messages is unchecked 7 10 Does SpamSieve bounce spam messages back to the sender SpamSieve does not have a feature to bounce spam messages back to the sender e g by sending an e mail reply saying that the message was not delivered Apple Mail used to have a built in Message gt Bounce command but Apple has removed it The thought behind bouncing is that a spammer will stop sending to your address if he thinks that the address was invalid and his message didn t get through Unfortunately sending a bounce message back would be ineffective or even counter productive for a variety of reasons 1 Spammers probably don t care They have lists of thousands or millions of e mail addresses and it s cheap to keep sending messages to the entire list They may get paid based on the size of their list no matter whethe
86. RIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT INDIRECT INCIDENTAL SPECIAL EX EMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PRO CUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABIL ITY WHETHER IN CONTRACT STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE Thanks to Allan Odgaard for some code snippets that are used in the Software Update installer e EDCommon is Copyright 1999 2002 by Erik Doernenburg All rights reserved Permission to use copy modify and distribute this software and its documentation is hereby granted provided that both the copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies of the software derivative works or modified versions and any portions thereof and that both notices appear in supporting documentation and that credit is given to Erik Doernenburg in all documents and publicity pertaining to direct or indirect use of this code or its derivatives e EDMessage is Copyright 2000 2002 by Erik Doernenburg and Axel Katerbau All rights re served Permission to use copy modify and distribute this software and its documentation is hereby granted provided that both the copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies of the software derivative works or modified version
87. Set up your mail program to use SpamSieve to filter your mail This is described in sections 3 1 through 3 10 below and in the Legacy Mail Programs section e g for Microsoft Entourage Find the section below that corresponds to the mail program that you re using 3 Train SpamSieve with some examples of your spam and good messages as described in the Do an Initial Training section This step is optional but highly recommended You can skip it if you don t have any saved spam messages 4 SpamSieve will launch automatically when new mail arrives It will examine each incoming message and move the spam messages to a separate mailbox In order to keep SpamSieve s accuracy high you ll need to tell it about any spam messages that you find in your inbox or good messages that you find in your spam mailbox This is described in the Correct All Mistakes section You can return to this page at any time by going to SpamSieve s Help menu and choosing Setting Up and Using SpamSieve The Help menu also contains a PDF version of this manual which is easier to search and print The rest of this manual contains detailed information about how SpamSieve works and how it can be customized If you have a question it s probably answered here However following the above four steps is all most users will need to do to effectively use SpamSieve 3 1 Setting Up Apple Mail In addition to these written instructions there is a video that demonstrat
88. Show Whitelist Updating From a Previous Version Updating OS versions is smoother since SpamSieve is better at finding disabled copies of its Apple Mail plug in Worked around a change in Mac OS X that could cause the Quit when mail client quits feature to not work when running in Japanese Improved the crash reporter s error reporting Improved debug logging for the Apple Mail training scripts Fixed a bug where SpamSieve could crash if there was an error writing to its log file Fixed a bug where SpamSieve would in rare cases try to change the ownership of a temporary folder unnecessarily We need help keeping SpamSieve s Japanese localization up to date Please contact spamsieveQ c command com if you re interested 2 9 16 September 17 2014 Works with Apple Mail under Mac OS X 10 9 5 It s easiest if you update to SpamSieve 2 9 16 before updating to Mac OS X 10 9 5 In any case if you don t see the SpamSieve commands in Apple Mail s Message menu be sure to choose Install Apple Mail Plug In from the SpamSieve menu Otherwise with the SpamSieve plug in not installed Mail will move good messages to the spam mailbox without consulting SpamSieve Improved compatibility with pre release versions of Mac OS X 10 10 Yosemite Made various changes to improve SpamSieve s filtering accuracy Updated the Outlook and Entourage scripts for compatibility with the upcoming Mac OS X 10 0 If you re using one of tho
89. Sieve Move Messages If op Add Criterion Execute if any criteria are met H Us fune Category H Is HI Uncertain Junk Then l Move message H Junk E mail On My Computer Y Do not apply other rules to messages that meet these criteria A enabled CKD Click OK to close the Edit Rule dialog Make sure that the SpamSieve Move If Spam rule appears at the top of the list in the Rules window Directly below it should be the SpamSieve Move Messages rule You can change the order by dragging Now proceed to the Do an Initial Training section e To train SpamSieve with spam messages select one or more of them and then choose Spam Sieve Train Spam from Entourage s Scripts menu as shown in the picture for Step 3 above e To train SpamSieve with good messages select one or more of them and then choose Spam Sieve Train Good from Entourage s Scripts menu The keyboard shortcuts for these commands are Command Control S and Command Control G Note The training commands will move locally stored messages to the Junk E mail folder or the inbox Due to limitations of Entourage they do not move IMAP or Exchange messages Incoming spam messages will be automatically moved to the Junk E mail folder SpamSieve will process new mail automatically If you ever need to manually ask it to sift through a mix of spam and good messages select the messages and choose Apply Rule gt All Rules fro
90. Sieve downloads4mac com SpamSieve install4mac com SpamSieve onFreeDownload com are not authorized to distribute our software They have been a source of confusion because they often appear in ads at the top of search results for Bing DuckDuckGo and Yahoo We do not recommend downloading from these sites In many cases they will say that they are offering an official copy of SpamSieve that is anything but In fact the installer asks for your administrator password installs adware and makes other changes that may damage your Mac CNET s Download com offers a Direct Download Link which is valid however it also offers a more prominent Download Now Installer Enabled link which we do not recommend The CNET installer installs toolbar adware and changes browser settings This page explains how you can remove the toolbar 7 12 3 How can I hide SpamSieve s Dock icon To hide SpamSieve s icon from the Dock and the Command Tab application switcher follow the instructions below depending on which versions of Mac OS X and SpamSieve you are using 153http c command com 154http c command com store 155http c command com forums showthread php 4497 omg I feel dirty 156http securemac com cnet_adware_removal_guide php 130 Mac OS X 10 7 and Later With SpamSieve 2 9 16 and Later e To hide SpamSieve s Dock icon click this link e To show SpamSieve s Dock icon click this link SpamSieve will
91. SpamSieve from within your mail program and you can customize how it interacts with the rest of your message sorting rules SpamSieve learns what your spam looks like so it can block nearly all of it It looks at your address book and learns what your good messages look like so it won t confuse them with spam Other spam filters get worse over time as spammers adapt to their rules SpamSieve actually gets better over time as it adapts its filtering to your mail SpamSieve doesn t delete any messages it only moves them to a different folder in your e mail program so you ll never lose any mail By learning from the very messages that you receive SpamSieve is able to block nearly all of your junk mail without putting your good messages in the spam mailbox SpamSieve works with any number of mail accounts of whatever types are supported by your e mail software e g POP IMAP Exchange Hotmail AOL You can even use it with multiple e mail programs at the same time for instance if you use one for work mail and one for personal mail 1 2 Identifying Spam SpamSieve uses a variety of methods to identify spam messages but by far the the most important is a statistical technique known as Bayesian analysis For a more in depth treatment of this technique applied to spam see this article by Paul Graham and the papers it references Bayesian spam filtering is highly accurate and adapts to new types of spam messages in the field First
92. SpamSieve rule Select the server mailbox that you want to use You can optionally use a separate mailbox for each account To do this create one Spam mailbox per account and then one rule per account as described in Separate Spam Mailboxes for Each Account 3 In Mail s Message menu choose SpamSieve Change Settings Enter the name of the mailbox created in Step 1 When it asks you Should messages marked using Train as Spam be stored in a local spam mailbox rather than on the server click No 4 Now both the incoming and trained spam messages will go to the Spam mailbox on the server If you find a good message in the Spam mailbox and you re at your Mac use the SpamSieve Train as Good command as normal If you re using an iPhone iPad Webmail or a different Mac 59 e If you are using the regular SpamSieve setup do not move the message out of the Spam mailbox Instead when you get back to your Mac select the message and choose Spam Sieve Train as Good e If you are using the drone setup you can move the message to the TrainGood mailbox The Mac will automatically train it as good and move it to your inbox 4 6 8 Marking Incoming Spam Messages Normally SpamSieve puts incoming spam messages in the Spam mailbox and it colors them according to how spammy they are You can customize this behavior by editing the actions of the SpamSieve rule in Mail s preferences For example to mark the spam messages as rea
93. Spamsieve 2 9 23 Manual C Command Software c command com December 8 2015 Contents 1 Introduction 1 1 What le Spamsieve sonia cc a a a A ar pe i2 Identifying Spam cria e A a a e eA Lo INGSPEAO E A a o AAA Be ee a ee a ee RA Take Main Featires sce a eee ek ee Bea Ae ae a a a ER ee LS Why Choose Spambievey acon odon ede ene daa ee RAS a A 2 Installing and Updating 2 1 JRGOUMIEMIENES e sss id ple ea oe ra ee ee A ee a es 22 Installing SpamSidve as mw a BA a a we oe Be e e 2 3 Updating From a Previous Version 2 be 4 24 Reinstalling a Fresh Copy lt o eec 64k ee ea eRe eee eka wwe ee 25 Umastalins ROARS 004 iaa Wee OR ERR RAS EG ae ewe ew oe 3 Using SpamSieve 2 1 Serme Up Apple Mall 0 bw ee ee ee ee Pe he owe ed ee es Ja setime Up Ame ois als eek eo ha hk a we a os oo methane Up az Mad cua So bk Ow ke Fa ea be eee Od Lee Ge SS 34 ette Up MalMate 2 2 45 a ak be eee BA OP REA ee eee ee oe Geta Up Madstialk pe rois ae k a ai RA A RA ae ee G a e e ef Setting Up Outlook scoi aee a kaw Gea a a A a e A ad Sen UCERO DIG 0 oh a A a A me ek Ae ae a8 petinig Un Posibor cause a ad ana a Da a A a a EEG a oo Gug Up PowerMal sa a roris sa 4 6 aeae A AA a eee 3 10 Setting Up Gmail iCloud Yahoo AOL or Other Web Mail a o noanoa Soll Doan ln TESTER AA Dee WEEE ke ed De Correct All Mistakes i ici o e a bed a ba ee ee Ne a ee eo Be 3 13 SpamSieve and Multiple Macs ee ee 3 14 iPhone Spam Fi
94. UI scripting If an error occurs SpamSieve will move the message via the more reliable but slower method Click this link to disable the workaround AppleMailTrainGoodGUIScripting Click this link to enable the workaround for making SpamSieve Train as Good faster SpamSieve it will ask you to add your inbox as a favorite in Mail Trained messages will now move to the inbox that you added in the favorites bar whereas without the workaround SpamSieve will try to find the appropriate account s inbox Click this link to disable the workaround Accessibility Troubleshooting e Due to an OS bug SpamSieveHelper may not automatically appear in the list of Accessibility applications To add it manually you can 1 If necessary click the lock button next to Click the lock to make changes 2 Command click on the SpamSieve icon in the Dock to reveal the SpamSieve application file in the Finder 71 72 73 74 75 76 x spamsieve default k AppleMailTrainGoodGUIScriptingYosemite amp kv YES x spamsieve default k AppleMailTrainGoodGUIScriptingYosemite amp v NO x spamsieve default k AppleMailChangeJunkStatus amp v NO x spamsieve default k AppleMailChangeJunkStatus amp v YES x spamsieve default k AppleMailTrainSpamGUIScripting amp v YES x spamsieve default k AppleMailTrainSpamGUIScripting amp v NO 77 x spamsieve default k AppleMailTrainGoodGUIScripting amp v YES 78x spamsieve default k AppleMailTrainGoodGUIScrip
95. a rule that moves messages to a mailbox on the Exchange server To work around this make sure that you are using the standard setup with the Spam mailbox On My Mac 144 6 In the Accounts preferences in Mail for each account click on Advanced and make sure that Automatically detect and maintain account settings is unchecked 7 Try renaming the SpamSieve rule in Mail to Move to Spam This will cause Mail to treat it like a regular rule bypassing SpamSieve If Mail still crashes when applying the rule this will show that the crash is due to Mail moving the message to the spam mailbox and not because of SpamSieve This test will cause Mail to move all incoming messages to the spam mailbox After the test you can disable the rule move the messages back to the inbox and use the Message gt Apply Rules command to re filter them 8 If Mail is crashing when applying the SpamSieve rule regardless of the results of 4 you can try using AppleScript rather than a regular rule to move the messages to your spam mailbox Because this uses a different code path in Mail it may bypass the source of the crash Please see the instructions with the Apple Mail Move If Spam script 9 SpamSieve works with a variety of mail programs You could temporarily use a different one either for reading your mail or just for spam filtering With an IMAP or Exchange mail account you will see the same mailboxes and messages in each mail program 8 Legacy Ma
96. abase with custom code that s faster and more reliable e Improved accuracy for HTML messages containing links e Importing mbox files is faster e Fixed bug where you couldn t use Web registration after the demo period had expired e The log records which addresses matched the whitelist or blocklist e The log records corpus imports e Auto training is faster e The Entourage Add Spam script can close the frontmost window if it s spam e Fixed bug where the date in the Statistics window could get cut off if you changed it to use a more verbose format e Worked around OS bug that caused dates like 01 09 2003 to be interpreted as January 9 in German style locales e Added Copy button to the Statistics window e Fixed problem updating certain history databases from 1 3 1 e More resilient to minor corpus file corruption e Fixed crash that could happen with improperly formed multi part messages e Shows the number of blocklist or whitelist rules in the title bar e The whitelist now contains some c command com addresses by default e Fixed crash when opening the Statistics window while adding messages e The Statistics window shows ratios where applicable e Assorted minor performance improvements e The modification dates of the AppleScripts are now the actual modification dates not the date the distribution was built 2 0 1 September 17 2003 e Replaced the database engine that was being used to store the corpus with som
97. account The name of each rule should be SpamSieve Account 1 where Account 1 is the Description of your ac count The conditions of the rule should say Account Account 1 The actions should say Move Message Spam the Spam mailbox you created for this account Mail may ask if you want to apply the rule click Don t Apply 2 Download the Apple Mail Remote Training script file Open it in Script Editor a k a AppleScript Editor and add your account name s at the top 3 You can test that the script works by running it in Script Editor it should move any messages in the TrainGood mailbox to the inbox and any messages in the TrainSpam mailbox to the Spam mailbox Errors will be reported in the All Messages section of the Console application 4 Go to Mail s Preferences window and create a new rule at the top of the list above the SpamSieve rule called Remote Training The conditions should say Every Message The actions should say Run AppleScript JApple Mail Remote Training scpt After choosing Run AppleScript from the pop up menu select the file that you created in Step 2 using either the pop up menu or the Choose button Mail may ask if you want to apply the rule click Don t Apply 5 If you want manually trained spam messages to go to the Spam mailbox on the server rather than On My Mac use the Change Settings command to tell SpamSieve that you don t want a local spam mailbox 6 If you are using
98. ad SpamSieve from this free site Improved the following sections of the manual Automatically Deleting Old Spam Messages Checking the Apple Mail Setup Correct All Mistakes Installing SpamSieve iPhone Spam Filtering Play sound Save false negatives to disk Sending in an Error Report Sending in Apple Mail Rules Setting Up Airmail Setting Up an Apple Mail Drone Setting Up Gmail iCloud Yahoo AOL or Other Web Mail 188http c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail discard spam 189nttp c command com forums showthread php 4501 Microsoft Outlook 2016 and SpamSieve 190http c command com scripts spamsieve outlook filter mailboxes 172 Setting Up Outlook 2016 Spam Message Colors in Apple Mail SpamSieve and Multiple Macs Turning Off the Gmail Spam Filter What can I do if Apple Mail is crashing Why does a message disappear or go back to the spam mailbox after I train it as good When SpamSieve encounters a permissions error it now reports on any applicable ACLs Access Control Lists Improved the error message when your version of SpamSieve is too old for the current version of Mac OS X Added to error text to help people know what Help button refers to If a PDF file attached to an e mail triggers an OS bug that leads to an infinite loop SpamSieve now aborts the spamsieve reader process after 30 seconds Previously the process an
99. ages instead of ratios SpamSieve will now quit at launch if another copy of the application is already running Re targeted broken Habeas URL Added the following menu commands Close All Windows Minimize All Windows and Zoom 2 1 December 9 2003 Added support for Apple Mail POP accounts POP messages can be marked as junk and colored but due to limitations in the present version of Apple Mail they cannot be moved to another mailbox Added a Training Tip window that gives advice on how to improve SpamSieve s accuracy based on the current state of the corpus and preferences 212 Rules in the whitelist and blocklist are no longer limited to just matching sender addresses They can now match a variety of message fields To CC Subject etc as well as the message body In addition to exact matches rules now support the following match styles contains starts with ends with useful for matching domains and Perl compatible regular expressions You can now edit rules and add new rules manually as opposed to automatically as a result of training SpamSieve with a message When trained with a good message from a mailing list SpamSieve will automatically create a whitelist rule based on a mailing list header if present SpamSieve can now read in the Entourage address book and use it as a whitelist Thus the Entourage rule can now give SpamSieve all the messages not just the ones that were from unknown senders This means
100. ages left in the Junk mailbox are probably good You can then move them to your inbox If there are any spam messages left you should train them as spam Automatically Re filter the Junk Mailbox You can use the Apple Mail Server Junk Mailbox script to automate this sort of re filtering Whenever the script runs it will tell SpamSieve to examine the messages in the Junk mailbox moving the spam messages to the Spam mailbox and the good messages to the inbox You can optionally set it to mark the spam messages as read 4 6 12 Filtering Spam During Power Nap Traditionally in order for SpamSieve to filter your mail your Mac needed to be awake Newer Macs and versions of the OS support a feature called Power Nap which can let SpamSieve run even when your Mac is asleep This works especially well for iPhone spam filtering and with the drone setup e Power Nap requires Mac OS X 10 8 or a later for notebooks and Mac OS X 10 9 or later for desktops The supported Macs are listed here e You need to enable Power Nap in the Energy Saver pane in System Preferences Notebooks have separate settings for enabling Power Nap when on battery or AC power e In order for Power Nap to work the Mac needs to be connected to the Internet and Apple Mail needs to be running before you put the Mac to sleep e The Mac will suspend Power Nap operations if your Mac is likely to overheat e When everything is set up as described above Mail will check f
101. ail program SpamSieve will automatically share its training data rules and statistics among all the mail programs 7 12 7 Why does SpamSieve need to access my contacts SpamSieve tries to read your Mac OS X address book in order to prevent marking messages as spam if they were sent by one of your known contacts This is controlled by the Use Mac OS X Address Book preference It also reads which e mail addresses are yours in order to detect spam messages that may have been forged to come from your own address This is controlled by the Exclude my addresses preference Normally Mac OS X will remember when you ve given SpamSieve permission to access the contacts If it keeps prompting you each time SpamSieve is launched this is probably because you have modified your copy of the SpamSieve application breaking its code signature It is no longer necessary to modify SpamSieve to hide its Dock icon please see the How can I hide SpamSieve s Dock icon section 7 12 8 How can I open the Library folder Under Mac OS X 10 7 Lion or later the Library folder is hidden To open it click on Finder in the Dock Click on the Go menu at the top of the screen hold down the Option key and then choose Library Under previous versions of Mac OS X you can click on Finder in the Dock click on the Go menu and choose Home This will show your home folder and you can open the Library folder directly 7 12 9 What can I do if the corpus file is damaged
102. ailbox menu and choose Edit Mailbox b Click on the Rules tab of the TrainSpam window c Click the button at the bottom of the window d e In the Description enter Remote Spam Training At the bottom of the window create two actions e Set Tag Junk e Move to Mailbox Junk 5 MailMate will check the Train mailboxes according to the Synchronization Schedule in the Mailbox menu 4 4 3 Setting Up an Outlook Drone This section is a continuation of the Setting Up a Spam Filtering Drone instructions for people using Microsoft Outlook 2011 Outlook 2016 currently does not work with the drone setup because it does not support schedules 1 Make sure that each of your accounts has its own Junk E mail mailbox This can be configured by going to the Accounts section of Outlook s preferences and clicking on Advanced and then Folders 64http freron com 65http www microsoft com mac outlook 49 2 If you have a single mail account follow the normal SpamSieve setup procedure in the Setting Up Outlook section When choosing the folder in the SpamSieve Move Messages rule be sure to choose the Junk E mail folder on the server not On My Computer You re now done with this step If you have multiple accounts create two SpamSieve Move Messages rules per account The name of the first rule should be SpamSieve Move Junk Messages Account 1 where Account 1 is the name of your account It should say If all condi
103. ain a message as spam that SpamSieve thought was good it will save that message as a file Click the Show button in the Preferences window to open the folder You can then drag the folder or particular files in it into the message window in your e mail program You can use Quick Look to view the message files to help find the ones that you want If a spam message gets through and is not saved in the False Negatives folder this likely means that there is a setup problem and that SpamSieve was not given an opportunity to filter that message Please see the Why is SpamSieve not catching my spam page for information about how to fix setup problems 114 7 2 5 Sending in a Sample Report If a program is slow hangs e g with a spinning beachball or freezes a sample report can record what your Mac was doing in order to locate the source of the problem 1 Click on Finder in the Dock 2 From the Go menu choose Utilities 3 Double click the Activity Monitor program 4 Select SpamSieve in the Activity Monitor window 5 Do whatever it is in SpamSieve that causes the slowness hang or freeze Immediately click on Activity Monitor in the Dock and choose Sample Process from the View menu 6 After Activity Monitor has finished taking the sample click the Save button in the Sample of SpamSieve window Save the file to your desktop and then include it in your e mail message as an attachment Please do not copy and pa
104. ain messages will never be marked as spam 100http c command com scripts spamsieve copy whitelist addresses 85 ee Preferences Notification Training Advanced Apply SpamSieve s filters in the order shown Check for message in corpus Use Mac OS X Address Book Open Exclude my addresses Use Entourage Outlook address book Load Use SpamSieve whitelist Use SpamSieve blocklist Use Habeas Safelist About Habeas ADV messages are spam Encoded HTML mail is spam Use Bayesian classifier 6 1 1 Check for message in corpus SpamSieve learns as you train it but training is not instant Training SpamSieve with a message will not necessarily give it enough information to classify that message correctly based only on the words in the message However once you have added a message to the corpus SpamSieve knows whether it is good or spam even though it might not make the correct prediction based on word probabilities This option causes SpamSieve to see if it knows whether a message is good or spam before trying to calculate its spam probability This is especially useful when testing the setup in your mail program If SpamSieve has seen the message before it will always classify it correctly You can disable this option if you want to see what SpamSieve would have predicted if it did not already know whether the message was good or spam 86 6 1 2 Use Mac OS X Address Book With this option enabled SpamSieve will never predict a m
105. aining How can I copy my training data to another machine How should I configure the junk filter on my mail server Setting Up Outlook 2016 Spam Message Colors in Apple Mail Train SpamSieve whitelist Turning Off the Gmail Spam Filter Use Bayesian classifier Use Mac OS X Address Book What can I do if Apple Mail is crashing What can I do if my Spam mailbox in Apple Mail disappeared What can I do if the corpus file is damaged Why does SpamSieve always need an update when Mac OS X is updated Why does the Junk mailbox appear in Apple Mail Why is SpamSieve not catching my spam e Reinstalling a Fresh Copy is now its own section of the manual and SpamSieve will direct you there if it finds that one of its files is missing AppleScript e The Apple Mail SaneBox and Apple Mail Server Junk Mailbox scripts Can now be configured to move any color of spammy messages directly to the trash and to apply flag colors so that you can sort by spamminess Have an option to move the most spammy messages to trash 191nttp c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail sanebox 192hnt tp c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail server junk mailbox 174 Error Can now be saved as standalone applications to run on a more regular schedule than when run via a Mail rule The Apple Mail Remote Training script now has an option to mark the trained spam messages as
106. ally delete junk mail older than setting in the Account Settings window 4 4 Setting Up a Spam Filtering Drone As described in the Correct All Mistakes section you need to tell SpamSieve about messages that it mis classified so that it can learn from them Also the sooner you correct SpamSieve the better This presents a problem if you re going to be away from your Mac for a while e g if you re on a trip and using your iPhone iPad or Web mail With the normal setup you can leave SpamSieve running on your Mac at home and it will clean the spam out of your inbox but aside from remote controlling your Mac there s no way to train SpamSieve The drone setup lets you run SpamSieve on one Mac and train it from other Macs PCs or iPhones This setup requires Apple Mail MailMate or Microsoft Outlook 201161 Here s an outline of how it works e All the computers check the same IMAP iCloud or Exchange account 60nttp freron com Slnttp www microsoft com mac outlook 46 e One Mac the drone downloads all the messages and filters them with SpamSieve The other computers your notebook Mac your PC at work your iPhone etc are not running SpamSieve yet they get a spam free inbox If you re using an iPhone you may want to turn off push e mail so that the phone doesn t notify you about new messages that would be put into the spam mailbox anyway e If you re sitting at the drone you can train it normally using the Spa
107. ano iTunes 5 and release of the Motorola ROKR The following notifications are available Good Message Count This notification mimics the red number in SpamSieve s Dock icon see Show number of new good messages in Dock After a batch of good messages arrives it tells you how many new messages there are and then fades away 107http www growl info 93 Good Messages in Address Book This posts one notification for each good message that arrives where the sender is in your address book showing the message s subject the first few lines of its body and if possible a picture of the sender Good Messages Not in Address Book This posts one notification for each good message that arrives where the sender is not in your address book showing the message s subject and the first few lines of its body Uncertain Spam This notification helps you spot false positives by telling you when a message has arrived that SpamSieve thinks is spam but that may actually be good By watching these notifications you can spot false positives without having to look through the entire contents of the spam folder in your mail program Unlike the other notifications Uncertain Spam notifications will persist until you click to dismiss them For more information see the A spam message is uncertain if preference You can customize the notification style and enable disable notifications Growl 2 x Open the Growl application and choose Pre
108. arch across multiple actual mailboxes When you re viewing a smart mailbox the message list shows the name of the mailbox that actually stores the message Thus a smart mailbox that searches for unread messages will by default also find unread messages in the Spam mailbox To avoid seeing spam messages in your Unread smart mailbox make sure it s set up as follows e Contains messages that match all of the following conditions e Message is Unread e Message is not in Mailbox Spam 7 13 5 Why does the Spam mailbox in Apple Mail appear empty even though there s a number beside it Mail shows a number next to the Spam mailbox to indicate how many unread messages it contains Some times you ll see the number but when you click on the mailbox to see its contents you ll see either no messages or no unread messages This may be because 1 The unread messages are actually in a second mailbox inside the Spam mailbox If there s a triangle to the left of the mailbox icon click to make it point down This will reveal any mailboxes inside and allow you to access their contents 2 Mail s database is damaged so that the numeric display is out of sync with the actual mail that s stored on your Mac and or your server You can fix this by rebuilding Apple Mail s database 7 13 6 What can I do if my Spam mailbox in Apple Mail disappeared If you can t find your Spam mailbox most likely it s still there but Mail is currently hiding it To sh
109. ary Logs SpamSieve See the How can I open the Library folder section If you find that the logs are taking up too much disk space you can delete the bz2 files at any time Help With the Log 77 The Sending in the SpamSieve Log File section describes how you can e mail your log file to spamsieveQc command com if you need help interpreting it 5 3 5 Edit Log This command opens the log file in a text editor such as TextEdit or TextWrangler instead of Console This makes it easier to read and search large log files You can control which editor SpamSieve uses by choosing Get Info in the Finder on a txt file changing the application in the Open with pane and pressing Change All 5 3 6 Show Blocklist The Show Blocklist command in the Filter menu opens the Blocklist window The blocklist consists of a list of rules Tf a message matches one or more enabled rules on the blocklist and Use SpamSieve blocklist is checked SpamSieve will predict that it is spam As always SpamSieve does not prevent you from receiving the spam messages rather the blocklist ensures that they will go to the spam mailbox rather than the inbox You can also configure Apple Mail so that the blocklisted messages go directly to the trash 0090 Blocklist 13 163 Rules Q Add Delete Search Date Header Match Style A Text to Match Y Hits 9 17 08 From address Is Equal to retsnewe tacotex be 0 2 11 08 From address gt Is Equal to 9 postmaster m
110. as Spam and Message gt Apply Rule gt Train as Good menu commands to train and move them at the same time If desired you can set up keyboard shortcuts for training For example give the Train as Spam rule a keyboard shortcut of Command Control S change the Description of the rule to Train as Spam S 3 4 Setting Up MailMate 1 Make sure that you are using MailMate 1 1 2 or later 2 In MailMate s Security preferences make sure that Enable is checked next to SpamSieve and that it s set to apply to new messages from the Inbox 3 The Mark messages as Not Junk if score is below setting does not affect SpamSieve or its filtering Rather if SpamSieve thinks a message is less spammy than the score that you enter MailMate will tell the mail server that it s not junk and it will also decide that it s safe to display any remote images that the message references 3 Now proceed to the Do an Initial Training section 25 e To train SpamSieve with spam messages select the messages and click the Move to Junk button or choose Message gt Junk State gt Junk from the menu bar e To train SpamSieve with good messages select the messages and click the Not Junk or Move Out of Junk button or choose Message gt Junk State gt Not Junk from the menu bar SpamSieve will process new mail automatically The Spam Score column shows how spammy SpamSieve thought each message was on a scale from 0 to 100 with 50 and above meaning spam
111. ate From Mac OS X 10 1 through 10 8 we would test SpamSieve with pre release version of the OS If a 167http c command com spamsieve support 168http c command com spamsieve supportitolder versions 169http www tikouka net mailapp 140 SpamSieve update was needed for compatibility with the new OS we would try to ship the update before that version of the OS was released to the public This was possible because there was generally only one set of UUIDs for each public release of Mac OS X With later releases of Mac OS X 10 8 through 10 11 but not 10 10 3 through 10 10 5 there are new UUIDs for most pre release versions of Mac OS X With this new policy we still test with pre release versions of the OS so we can have a SpamSieve update ready to go but we cannot actually ship it until after the OS update ships The reason for this is that the compatibility UUID that we need to declare is not known until we have the final shipping version of the OS update This is the system working as designed the UUID certifies that we have tested SpamSieve on the exact version of the OS that is running on your Mac Update SpamSieve Before Updating Mac OS X The smoothest way to update Mac OS X and SpamSieve is to update SpamSieve before updating Mac OS X The reason for this is that if you update Mac OS X first and then open Mail Mail will not load the old version of the SpamSieve plug in Without the plug in loaded you will not see the Spa
112. attention on The pop up menu lets you control the range of scores that SpamSieve considers to be uncertain For example if you set it to 75 the default messages that SpamSieve thought were spam but which have scores below 75 will be considered uncertain e Growl will show a notification bubble for each uncertain message For more information see the Use Growl global notification system section e In Entourage or Outlook the uncertain messages will be categorized as Uncertain Junk instead of Junk and will appear in a different color For more information see the Spam Message Categories or Spam Message Categories Outlook section By making it easier to spot uncertain messages these mechanisms help you to efficiently verify whether SpamSieve has filtered your mail correctly Uncertain messages are considered to be spam unless you tell SpamSieve otherwise so you should not train SpamSieve that they are spam 6 2 7 Use Growl global notification system Growl is a free third party application that can enhance SpamSieve s notification abilities Once you have downloaded and installed Growl the next time SpamSieve is launched it will use Growl to notify you when new messages arrive If you are not using Growl turn off this option in order to improve performance Q 4 Tue9 17AM TidBITS 796 12 Sep 05 lt editors tidbits com gt TidBITS 796 12 Sep 05 Apple s special music event last week revealed the new iPod n
113. be needed or even used e g if the real problem is that your mail program isn t set up properly Rules and Training By default the Train SpamSieve blocklist preference is enabled This means that SpamSieve will automati cally create blocklist rules when you train a message as spam You won t get spam from the same address or sender name twice SpamSieve will also disable uncheck matching blocklist rules when you train a message as good This prevents a bad blocklist rule from blocking similar good messages Editing Rules You can edit a rule s Header or Match Style by clicking in the corresponding column and selecting from the pop up menu To edit a rule s Text to Match double click the text For more information about the available options see the Rule Columns Headers and Match Styles section Deleting and Disabling Rules You can delete a rule from the blocklist by selecting it and pressing Delete Generally there is little reason to delete rules SpamSieve is optimized such that having lots of rules does not reduce performance If you don t like what a rule is doing you should uncheck the rule rather than deleting it This will prevent SpamSieve from re learning the rule automatically see Rules and Training above For example say that you get forged spam messages from your own address When you receive such a message and tell SpamSieve that it s spam any rule on the whitelist with your address would be disab
114. beta versions of SpamSieve Then you will likely already have a compatible version of SpamSieve installed when the OS update first becomes available Added the Uninstall Apple Mail Plug In command in the SpamSieve menu SpamSieve is now more aggressive about auto training whitelist rules to prevent false positives SpamSieve is now 33 faster at reading the corpus and 48 faster at writing it This improves the launch time and overall application responsiveness The Apple Mail Train as Good command is better at determining when a message is inside of a junk mailbox with a localized name The Apple Mail Remote Training script no longer times out when there are lots of messages in the training mailbox It also has new options for changing the name of the spam mailbox and for enabling debug logging The Apple Mail SaneBox and Apple Mail Server Junk Mailbox scripts now set the junk status and color for spam messages Added the following sections to the manual Checking the GyazMail Setup Separate Spam Folders for Each Outlook Account What can I do if the corpus file is damaged What can I do if the statistics database is damaged Improved the following sections of the manual iPhone Spam Filtering 199http 200nttp 201http 202http c command com spamsieve support c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail remote training c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail sanebox c comman
115. bout any of the training issues that IMAP and Exchange accounts have The downside is that it s more work to train each copy of SpamSieve separately 3 14 Phone Spam Filtering Your Mac as the Spam Filter Due to limitations of the iOS platform there is not currently an iPhone version of SpamSieve However you can use SpamSieve on your Mac to keep the spam off your iPhone iPad or iPod touch The Mac has much more bandwidth and processing power so it makes sense to do the spam filtering there anyway When you check for mail on your iPhone you won t waste time or battery power downloading or processing spam messages Use IMAP or Exchange to Synchronize Your Mailboxes To use SpamSieve with your iPhone you ll need to set both the Mac and the iPhone to connect to your mail server using either the IMAP or Exchange mail protocol e Many popular mail hosts such as Apple s iCloud Gmail and Yahoo automatically uses IMAP e Most other modern mail hosts also offer IMAP support e Some hosts such as Comcast can enable IMAP support if you request it e Some mail hosts only offer support for the older POP protocol This makes it impossible for your Mac to clean the spam off your iPhone We recommend switching to another provider 43http en wikipedia org wiki Internet Message Access Protocol 4nttp en wikipedia org wiki Microsoft_Exchange Server Snttp en wikipedia org wiki Post_Office Protocol 39 If your mail h
116. c command com blog 2006 06 22 fake addresses http c command com scripts spamsieve copy whitelist addresses 80 y Enabled If this is checked the rule is enabled Disabled rules do not block any messages but they are useful because they prevent SpamSieve from re learning a rule that you don t want See Rules and Training below Hits The number of god or spam messages that the rule blocked a rough measure of how effective it is Rule Headers When SpamSieve checks whether a message matches a rule it compares the part of the message named by the Header column with the contents of the rule s Text to Match column The following are the message parts that may be used in the Header column From address The e mail address of the message s sender From name The name of the message s sender To any address The e mail addresses of the primary recipients of the message SpamSieve checks each recipient separately to see whether it matches the rule CC any address The e mail addresses of the carbon copy recipients of the message SpamSieve checks each recipient separately to see whether it matches the rule Reply To address The address that you would be sending to if you replied to the message This is often the same as the From address but it could also be a mailing list or an alternate address for the sender If the message does not specify a Reply To then the rule will not match Any Recipient The To and CC addre
117. cally check for new versions each time it is launched and once per day You can disable this feature by unchecking the Check for updates automatically checkbox Updating If a new version is available SpamSieve will tell you what s new in that version Click Download to have SpamSieve download the dmg file for the new version to your downloads folder Click Download amp Install to have it download the dmg and then update the installed SpamSieve application to the new version For more information please see Updating From a Previous Version Installing a Fresh Copy You can hold down the Option key when you click Check Now to make SpamSieve always download the latest version even if your version is already up to date This is an easy way to download and re install a fresh copy of SpamSieve if your copy is damaged Privacy To check for a new version SpamSieve contacts a Web server at c command com over a secure connection SpamSieve transmits the following information to the server the name of the product SpamSieve and its version the version of Mac OS X the kind of processor that the Mac has whether SpamSieve has been purchased the name and version of the current mail program and the name of the current language This information is used to guide future development No personal information is transmitted Mac App Store If you purchased DropDMG or EagleFiler via the Mac App Store the Software Update menu command is not present
118. cated rules that match various message headers or the message body The rules can match text in a variety of ways including using regular expressions e Can use the Habeas Safelist which indicates messages that are not spam as well as the ADV subject tag indicating that a message s spam e Many spammers encode the contents of their messages so that filters cannot see the incriminating words they contain SpamSieve can decode and look inside these messages Optionally it can mark them all as spam on the theory that legitimate senders do not try to obscure their messages e SpamSieve keeps track of how accurate it is how many good and spam messages you receive and how these numbers change over time e Turn off new mail notification in your e mail program and let SpamSieve notify you only when you receive non spam messages e The corpus window and log let you see how each spam message was caught 1 5 Why Choose SpamSieve Given that e mail programs such as Apple Mail Entourage and Eudora include their own integrated spam filters you may be wondering why you should consider SpamSieve The answer is simple SpamSieve s higher accuracy will save you time You ll spend less time deleting spam messages from your inbox in fact SpamSieve gets rid of spam so effortlessly that you may even forget that you have it installed Read what the press and other SpamSieve users have to say about it Still not convinced That s OK You can t
119. cation in the Utilities folder in your Ap plications folder From the Script Editor menu open the Preferences window Click on the General tab and make sure that Show Script menu in menu bar is checked 4 Choose Install Outlook Scripts from the SpamSieve menu When in Outlook you should now see five SpamSieve items in Scripts menu at the right of your screen 0 Se Ga Mon 3 15 PM Open Scripts Folder gt Open Script Debugger app SpamSieve Change Settings f4 SpamsSieve Move If Spam SpamSieve Set Category SpamSieve Train as Good 2 SpamSieve Train as Spam 5 Now proceed to the Do an Initial Training section 38http c command com scripts spamsieve outlook filter mailboxes 32 e To train SpamSieve with spam messages select one or more of them and then choose Spam Sieve Train as Spam from the Scripts menu e To train SpamSieve with good messages select one or more of them and then choose Spam Sieve Train as Good from the Scripts menu In previous versions Outlook had its own Scripts menu Outlook 2016 no longer has its own Scripts menu so these instructions have you use the system one Unfortunately the system Scripts menu does not support keyboard shortcuts If you would like to have keyboard short cuts for SpamSieve s training commands we recommend installing FastScripts free for up to 10 keyboard shortcuts The recommended keyboard shortcuts for the training commands a
120. cessible on one Mac If you are using multiple Macs you can instead store the spam on the server so that the same spam mailbox is visible on all the Macs Training Data 38 When upgrading to a new Mac or using setup 3 or 4 above you can copy SpamSieve s training data from one Mac to another This is only recommended if the two Macs will be filtering the same mail account Macs filtering different people s mail should be trained separately for the best filtering accuracy Do not copy SpamSieve s files using a file synchronization program or cloud syncing utility such as Dropbox while the SpamSieve application is running Doing so can corrupt the files License Info An individual user running SpamSieve on multiple personal Macs generally only needs to purchase one SpamSieve license The Purchase section of the manual has more information about the license policy iCloud Rule Syncing Multiple Macs using the same iCloud account will automatically have the same rules in Apple Mail If you want to use the SpamSieve rule on one Mac but not the other you should uncheck it on the Mac where you want it to be disabled Do not delete the rule because that would through syncing delete it from the other Mac as well POP Accounts If you are accessing the same POP mail account from multiple Macs you can safely run SpamSieve on all of the Macs simultaneously Each Mac is entirely separate from the others so you don t have to worry a
121. cial mailbox which is separate from your other accounts and from SpamSieve s Spam mailbox See Spam in Other Locations above Most users find it simplest to review a single spam mailbox for all their accounts Turning Off Your Server Side Spam Filter 119 Please find the Turning Off section below that corresponds to your mail provider Note that some mail hosts such as Media Temple have both per account and per user spam filters so there may be more than one switch to turn off If your mail provider does not let you turn off its spam filter we recommend switching to one of the Recommended Mail Hosts Re filtering Messages Caught by the Server Filter You can use the Apple Mail Server Junk Mailbox script to have SpamSieve save you from mistakes that the server junk filter made by moving any messages that it thinks are good back to the inbox It will also consolidate the spam messages from all the accounts into a single spam mailbox the same one where SpamSieve is already putting your spam Bulk Mail and Quarantine Some mail providers have a mailbox called Bulk Mail or a special Web site to view messages that are quarantined If possible we recommend turning off these features for the same reasons described above Regardless there are two important points to keep in mind e The server puts the messages in the bulk mailbox before SpamSieve sees them Thus there is no setting you can change in SpamSieve to prev
122. cripts SpamSieve is better at following aliases and more tolerant of incorrect permissions when looking for its support files Updated to eSellerate Engine 3 6 1 Improved serial number name entry Various localization fixes The buttons in the Preferences window now open the specific help sections on Jaguar Fixed longstanding unreported bug where you could launch multiple instances of SpamSieve if you were using Jaguar 2 2 4 February 10 2005 e Increased the speed of SpamSieve s message processing e Processing messages with Entourage is much faster To realize the speed increase re install SpamSieve s Entourage scripts and let it replace the existing ones e Improved accuracy through better HTML and header processing It is not necessary to reset the corpus e Colors to indicate spamminess in Apple Mail are now enabled by default e Can now play sounds and bounce the Dock icon when mail arrives even if SpamSieve or a mail program is frontmost e Added option to Entourage s Change Settings to make all spam messages marked with category Junk instead of marking some of them with Uncertain Junk e Added more standard blocklist rules for non Latin character sets e AppleScript errors complaining about not being able to find the SpamSieve application should be much less common now If you do see such an error asking SpamSieve to re install the scripts for Apple Mail or Entourage and le
123. d Blue Move Message to mailbox Spam 5 SpamSieve Red messages with scores from 81 to 87 Every Message Mark as Flagged Green Move Message to mailbox Spam 6 SpamSieve Orange messages with scores from 75 to 80 Every Message Mark as Flagged Yellow Move Message to mailbox Spam 7 SpamSieve Yellow messages with scores from 50 to 74 Every Message Mark as Flagged Orange Move Message to mailbox Spam and then choose View gt Sort By gt Flags The flag colors are chosen so that the messages will sort in order of spamminess this is why they do not match the message colors When using this rule you should set the AppleMailTrainGoodClearFlags option in the Esoteric Preferences to have SpamSieve clear the flags when training a message as good Currently there is a bug Radar 21468415 in Mac OS X 10 11 where the feature to sort by flags does not work 4 6 6 Changing the Name of the Spam Mailbox You can change which mailboxes SpamSieve uses to store your spam 1 Change the mailbox where SpamSieve moves incoming spam messages e If your preferred mailbox does not exist yet simply rename the Spam mailbox in Mail by selecting it and choosing Rename from the Mailbox menu The SpamSieve rule in Mail s preferences should automatically update to reflect the new mailbox name e If your preferred mailbox already exists open the SpamSieve rule in Mail s preferences and select that mailbox from the pop up menu
124. d click the button at the bottom of the rule sheet and choose Mark as Read from the pop up menu When all the messages in a mailbox are marked as read Apple Mail will stop showing a number next to the mailbox Do not add an action that changes the color of the message as it will not do what you expect 4 6 9 Separate Spam Mailboxes for Each Account Normally SpamSieve puts the spam messages from all your Apple Mail accounts into a single mailbox called Spam If you want to have a separate spam mailbox for each account first create the requisite empty mailboxes Then create one rule in Mail for each account The description for the rule should be SpamSieve lt AccountName gt where lt AccountName gt is any text that helps you identify the account The rule s condition should be that the account is lt AccountName gt and the action should be to move the message to the spam mailbox for that account 60 Description SpamSieve C Command if any of the following conditions are met Account C Command Perform the following actions eo wy cones EO Move Message to mailbox 5 C Command Spam As this example demonstrates you can have multiple SpamSieve rules in Apple Mail with arbitrary condi tions so long as all of their descriptions start with SpamSieve It is recommended that you arrange the conditions such that only one SpamSieve rule will be applied to any given
125. d com scripts spamsieve apple mail server junk mailbox 176 Installing SpamSieve Setting Up Outlook 2016 Updating From a Previous Version Added improved instructions for installing and running supplemental AppleScripts If Outlook reports an error when creating the Uncertain Junk category SpamSieve now explains how you can create it manually SpamSieve can now log the contents of the LaunchAgents folder if there is a problem When the SpamSieve application is damaged and needs to be reinstalled it now links to some more extensive online instructions for doing so Improved the error reporting when SpamSieve s log file can t be written to If there s an error removing the old copy of the Apple Mail plug in and fixing the file permis sions ownership doesn t help SpamSieve now instructs you how to remove the file manually Improved the text in the Welcome window Also the window is now shown later in the launch process so that the referenced Help menu is available The About SpamSieve window now uses the new system font on Mac OS X 10 10 The About SpamSieve window now uses the system language names when crediting localizers to reduce the number of strings that localizers need to keep up to date Increased the font size in the Software Update window on Mac OS X 10 10 Added the ShowResetAlert user default to show the corpus history reset window if the user can t hold down the proper modifier keys Ad
126. d the Application Support folder Inside that is the SpamSieve folder Inside that is the Corpus corpus file 3 Drag the Corpus corpus file to the trash 4 Re train SpamSieve as described in the Do an Initial Training section 7 12 10 What can I do if the statistics database is damaged A damaged statistics database can cause SpamSieve to crash report internal errors or show incorrect accuracy numbers in the Statistics window Database damage can be caused by crashes or disk errors If you have a backup from before the damage occurred you can quit SpamSieve and your mail program and replace the file Users lt username gt Library Application Support SpamSieve History db with a working copy See the How can I open the Library folder section for how to find this file Otherwise you can have SpamSieve reset the database and start a new one This will not affect SpamSieve s training data or filtering accuracy 1 Quit SpamSieve and your mail program 2 Open your Applications folder and select SpamSieve 3 While holding down the Command and Option keys on the keyboard double click the SpamSieve icon Note Tf holding down the Command and Option keys does not work for you you can instead click this link before launching SpamSieve 4 Click the Reset History button in the window that pops up 163 x spamsieve default k ShowResetAlert amp v YES 164 spamsieve default k ShowResetAlertkv YES 134 7 13 Appl
127. d your fan would keep running forever and possibly freeze the mail client Worked around a bug in Mac OS X 10 11 that could cause a crash during Software Update Worked around a bug in Mac OS X 10 6 and 10 7 that could cause a crash Added defensive coding to try to prevent a crash when saving the corpus to disk Fixed a regression that could cause an error when switching applications Fixed a regression where SpamSieve wasn t able to reset the corpus Fixed a regression where the Entourage scripts could not be installed Fixed a bug where Software Update would continue offering updates in the same session in which you had held down the Option key Fixed a bug where SpamSieve could crash when sending data to a helper tool that exited unex pectedly Fixed a bug where a text field in the crash reporter was truncated Fixed a few small memory leaks Updated the German localization 2 9 20 June 3 2015 General e Made various changes to improve SpamSieve s filtering accuracy e Apple s server side iCloud spam filter has recently become more aggressive As a result many people have been confused by the sudden increase in messages in the Junk mailbox rather than SpamSieve s Spam mailbox iCloud s spam filter cannot be turned off but the Why does the Junk mailbox appear in Apple Mail section of the manual and the new Consolidating Spam From Multiple Filters section explain some of the options for dealing with
128. de the To address for mailing list messages This makes it easier to decide whether to ignore the notification Fixed bug that caused part of SpamSieve s corpus to be written to disk incorrectly when running on Intel In most cases no ill effects would have been observed and SpamSieve will repair the corpus file the first time you launch 2 4 3 Improved the error messages Improved the display of the demo time remaining Updated the localizations 2 4 2 February 23 2006 SpamSieve is now much better at catching a new type of spam message that previous versions had been inconsistent at catching Worked around some more spammer tricks to improve accuracy Improved the way message attachments are analyzed Fixed bug that could cause improper analysis of messages from Apple Mail or Eudora leading to reduced accuracy Improved phish detection Improved the performance of the Apple Mail training commands on Tiger and Jaguar Made some changes to the way spam messages are colored in Apple Mail Now the most spammy color blue is reserved for messages with scores 99 or higher i e messages that matched a blocklist rule had encoded HTML parts or were known to definitely be spam The Show Window command in Apple Mail can now open the SpamSieve help Under certain circumstances SpamSieve can now detect at launch whether the application package is damaged rather than too quietly reporting errors in the log during message proc
129. ded QuitMailWhenMacSleeps to the esoteric preferences This quits Mail when the Mac sleeps and relaunches it when the Mac wakes This works around an OS bug that can cause messages not to be moved to the Spam mailbox if Mail received them right after the Mac woke from sleep Worked around a string encoding bug in Mac OS X 10 10 Fixed a bug where the Apple Mail plug in would cause unnecessary messages about LSUIElement and the sandbox to be logged to Console Fixed a bug where a change in system font metrics caused some text in the Preferences and Statistics windows to be truncated Fixed spurious log messages from SpamSieveHelper when running on Mac OS X 10 10 Added defensive check to prevent trying to fix the ownership of certain folders Fixed a bug where toolbar buttons in the rules and corpus windows were always enabled when running on Mac OS X 10 10 Worked around an OS bug that prevented bookmark files from being resolved Worked around an OS bug that could cause SpamSieve s log file to be created in the wrong location Updated the German and Spanish localizations 2 9 18 November 17 2014 Works with Apple Mail under Mac OS X 10 10 1 It s easiest if you update to SpamSieve 2 9 18 before updating to Mac OS X 10 10 1 To prevent Mac OS X from updating itself without asking you go to the App Store section of System Preferences and make sure that Install OS X updates is unchecked In any case if you don t see the SpamSi
130. der section SpamSieve will also look for sounds that are built into your installed e mail programs You can adjust the Alert volume in the Sound Effects tab of the Sound pane in System Preferences If the volume is set to zero the Mac flashes the screen instead of playing the sound If you are not hearing the sounds make sure that you have selected an appropriate speaker in the Play sound effects through pop up menu 91 6 2 2 Bounce Dock icon This makes SpamSieve bounce its Dock icon once when new good messages are received 6 2 3 Keep bouncing You might not be looking at the Dock icon when it first bounces so this makes SpamSieve continue bouncing its Dock icon until you activate SpamSieve or your e mail program 6 2 4 Show number of new good messages in Dock This option makes SpamSieve show the number of new good messages in its Dock icon New means since the last time the number was reset it s not related to the number of messages that are unread Good messages means messages for which there is a Predicted Good entry in SpamSieve s log If there are no new good messages or if SpamSieve or the mail program is frontmost SpamSieve will not show any number rather than showing zero Clicking the Dock icon activating your e mail program or training SpamSieve with a message will reset the count The slider lets you control the size of the number in the Dock icon If you re using DragThing
131. detects that it s damaged it will alert the user to download and install a fresh copy SpamSieve now checksums the Outlook script files both the installed and built in copies to detect whether they are damaged Made a change to eliminate a particular cause of false positives for some users SpamSieve no longer triggers Mac OS X s accept incoming network connections firewall dialog Added some exception guards to work around bugs in the Growl SDK When an unexpected error occurs and no stack trace is available SpamSieve will now try to report the approximate location Improved the What information should I include when I report a problem section of the manual 2 9 April 3 2012 Added support for upcoming versions of Mac OS X Made various changes to improve SpamSieve s filtering accuracy SpamSieve is now code signed using a Developer ID certificate for Gatekeeper When training an Exchange message as good in Apple Mail SpamSieve is better at moving it to the proper inbox Processing incoming messages with Outlook is more efficient To take advantage of this change choose Install Outlook Scripts from the SpamSieve menu If you ve used the SpamSieve Change Settings command in Apple Mail to tell SpamSieve not to use a local spam mailbox training a message as spam will now try to move the message to a spam mailbox on the same server account rather than always using the first account Added support for training me
132. do If you still don t see the SpamSieve commands in the Message menu after relaunching Mail try restarting your Mac There may also be errors reported in the Console that point to the source of the problem In rare cases Mail may be set not to load plug ins and stuck so that this setting cannot be changed To fix this open the Terminal application and enter these commands cd Library Containers com apple mail Data Library Preferences usr libexec PlistBuddy com apple mail plist c Add EnableBundles bool YES killall SIGTERM cfprefsd 7 13 3 Why do good messages move to the wrong inbox when trained in Apple Mail When you train a message in the Spam or Junk mailbox as good SpamSieve normally moves it back to your inbox You can adjust this behavior using the Change Settings command If the messages are not going to the inbox see the Why does a message disappear or go back to the spam mailbox after I train it as good section 136 If you have multiple mail accounts you may sometimes find that SpamSieve moved the message to the inbox of a different account than the account that received the message The reason this happens it that Apple Mail does not keep track of which account received each message Therefore SpamSieve has to try to figure out the proper account by looking at the addresses in the message and the addresses associated with your accounts Most of the time this will work automatically There are some exce
133. documentation If you would like to connect an application to SpamSieve please contact spamsieve c command com for assistance 66http c command com scripts spamsieve outlook remote training 67http c command com scripts spamsieve 68mailto spamsieve c command com 50 4 6 Apple Mail Customization The following customizations are optional but recommended Notifications Choose Mail gt Preferences and click on General Change the New messages sound to None so that Apple Mail does not play a sound when spam messages arrive Change New message notifications to Inbox Only or to a custom smart mailbox that excludes your Spam mailbox This will prevent Mail from notifying you when you receive new spam messages SpamSieve will notify you only when you receive new good messages Account Aliases Tell Mail and SpamSieve about your account aliases as described in the Why do good messages move to the wrong inbox when trained in Apple Mail section Unread Smart Mailbox If you have an Unread smart mailbox please see the Why do I see spam messages in my Unread smart mailbox in Apple Mail section for how to adjust it Sleep Sometimes Mail rules will not move messages that were processed immediately after the Mac woke from sleep If this happens you will end up with spam messages that are marked as spam but not moved from the inbox to the Spam mailbox You can work around this problem by quitting Mail before sleeping
134. don t see the SpamSieve commands in Apple Mail s Message menu be sure to choose Install Apple Mail Plug In from the SpamSieve menu Otherwise with the SpamSieve plug in not installed Mail will move good messages to the spam mailbox without consulting SpamSieve e If SpamSieve detects that training a message didn t work because of an AppleScript bug in Mac OS X 10 11 it will now direct you to the new Duplicate Apple Mail Accounts section of the manual for a workaround e When filtering incoming messages Apple Mail will now wait longer for SpamSieve to launch in case the system delayed respawning the launch agent Thus spam messages are more likely to be filtered rather than left in the inbox e If the launch agent is set to be continuously running it no longer quits itself when Mail quits or SpamSieve quits crashes This should help ensure that Mail is able to relaunch SpamSieve right away without Mac OS X 10 11 throttling the launch agent 186http c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail server junk mailbox 187http c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail sanebox 171 The Apple Mail Discard Spam script now has an option to set the retry delay to work around a problem with spam messages being left in the trash if Mail failed to delete them Improved the following sections of the manual Checking the Apple Mail Setup Checking the Outlook Setup Faster Apple Mail Training Why do good messages move to
135. dresses before loading the new ones Do not click Load while Entourage or Outlook is downloading and filtering mail as this may cause it to freeze Your Own Addresses If you have Exclude my addresses checked addresses on the Mac OS X address book s Me card will not be checked against Entourage or Outlook s address book This helps prevent forged spams from getting through For more information please see the How do I make SpamSieve catch spams sent from my own address section Multiple Identities If you have multiple Entourage or Outlook identities you can load the addresses into SpamSieve in sequence Click Load then change to another identity and click Load again etc Sync Services Prior to Mac OS X 10 8 Entourage and Outlook could automatically synchronize their address books with the system address book using a technology called Sync Services SpamSieve could access the system address book directly so there was no need for SpamSieve to load the addresses from Entourage or Outlook As of 88 Mac OS X 10 8 Apple has deprecated Sync Services and customers report that it no longer works reliably Thus it is recommended that you use the Use Entourage Outlook address book option instead If you have Mac OS X 10 6 through 10 7 you may prefer to use Sync Services since it is more automatic If you have Outlook Open Outlook s Preferences window and click on Sync Services Make sure that Contacts is checked and that it s se
136. e 2 3 1 May 16 2005 Works with Apple Mail on Mac OS X 10 4 1 SpamSieve should automatically install a new copy of its Apple Mail plug in the first time it s launched but if it doesn t you can do so by choosing Install Apple Mail Plug In from the SpamSieve menu Various accuracy improvements Renamed the Apple Mail training commands to Train as Good and Train as Spam Train as Spam is much faster in Apple Mail on 10 4 when there are multiple messages selected If SpamSieve s Dock icon is hidden a new SpamSieve Open Window command will appear in Apple Mail s Message menu This lets you quit SpamSieve or access its windows and settings while its menu bar is hidden Worked around Apple Mail bug so that Train as Good now moves spam messages out of Mail s Spam folder on 10 4 provided that SpamSieve had put them there Reduced the maximum size of the Growl notification bubbles Better at parsing malformed messages The HTML parser is much faster with certain pathological spam messages that could previously drag parsing out for a minute or more Worked around Entourage bug that could lead to the creation of multiple Uncertain Junk categories SpamSieve no longer complains about the permissions on Apple Mail s Bundles folder if you re using a different mail program Removed the Prune Corpus command With auto training being much smarter than in earlier versions it s almost never advisable to prune and improper pruning severely
137. e Better recovery from errors in the corpus file The secondary parser is better at handling DOS linebreaks 1 2 2 November 20 2002 Fixed bug in the PowerMail Add Good script Added uninstaller for Eudora users Better handling of errors while adding messages to the corpus Removed bloat from the Entourage Mark Spam script The application icon now has an alpha channel so it doesn t appear with a white halo when viewed on a colored background Minor changes to the manual 1 2 1 November 18 2002 Modified Info plist to work around a bug in Mac OS X 10 1 that could cause the Finder to crash when launching SpamSieve 1 2 November 18 2002 Added support for Emailer 2 0v3 and Eudora 5 2 and later Decodes base64 and quoted printable text parts thus finding words that spammers try to hide from anti spam software Decodes subjects that use different character sets e g big5 Adds special tokens for MIME entities such as part boundaries and uninterpretable message parts Keeps track of the messages added to the corpus and can optionally prevent you from adding the same message more than once biasing the counts Thus you no longer have to remember which messages you ve already added You can now undo adds to the corpus e g if you added a message as good when you meant to add it as spam Can now add messages to the corpus as they are filtered so after the initial training you only have to add messages w
138. e indicating that it s active o Make sure that the rule s name starts with SpamSieve o Make sure that the rule s conditions say Every Message a Rae SH O E Make sure that the rule does not have any Set Color actions fo Make sure there are no other rules that move spam messages to another mailbox or the trash Exception in rare cases you may want to create an unwanted messages rule as described in the Correct All Mistakes section f Drag the SpamSieve rule to the top of the list if it isn t there already Exceptions If you re using the drone setup the Remote Training rule should be above the SpamSieve rule If you are using an unwanted messages as in e it should be above the SpamSieve rule g Even if the rule looks correct it can help to delete it and create a new one If you do this be sure to click Don t Apply when it asks whether you want to re apply the rules iCloud syncing can cause problems with Apple Mail If you are not actually using Mail on multiple Macs you can turn off its iCloud support to prevent these problems On Mac OS X 10 10 or later open System Preferences click on iCloud click the Options button next to iCloud Drive then uncheck Mail app If training a spam message in the inbox as spam does not cause it to change color and move to the spam mailbox please see Duplicate Apple Mail Accounts section Testing That the Rule Works 3 Select a s
139. e Gmail Spam Filter gt o ssaa causa awaa e e e 7 6 4 Turning Off the GoDaddy Spam Filter o 125 7 6 5 Turning Of the Cloud Spam Filter gt ceed teses ac ta dora be eww ee 125 7 6 6 Turning Off the Yahoo Mail Spam Filter o oe ea ee ceso srate ausi 125 TOT Turning OF Other Spam Filters og we ee naa heak 125 7 7 Why does a message disappear or go back to the spam mailbox after I train it as good 126 7 8 Does SpamSieve protect me from viruses e 126 7 9 Does SpamSieve stop Web bugs e 126 7 10 Does SpamSieve bounce spam messages back to the sender 0 128 7 11 Does SpamSieve prevent me from receiving messages o aa 128 7 12 SpamSieve Application Questions lt lt oo seaca e 130 7 12 1 Why doesn t my serial number work 00000 o 130 7 12 2 Should I download SpamSieve from this free site 0 130 7 123 How can I hide SpamSieve s Dock icon 2 ees ee e e a 130 7 12 4 How can I copy my training data to another machine 0 131 7 12 5 Does SpamSieve launch automatically 2 2 0 0 2 ee ee 132 7 12 6 Can I use SpamSieve with more than one mail program at a time 133 7 12 7 Why does SpamSieve need to access my contacts o e 133 7 12 8 How can I open the Library folder o o e 133 7 12
140. e Mail Specific Questions 7 13 1 Why does the Junk mailbox appear in Apple Mail The Junk Mailbox The Setting Up Apple Mail instructions have you turn off Mail s built in junk mail filter so it will not put messages in the Junk mailbox However it is normal for Mail to still show the Junk mailbox Older versions of Mac OS X would always hide the Junk mailbox when Mail s filter was disabled SpamSieve itself normally puts spam messages in the Spam mailbox unless you ve changed this as described in the Changing the Name of the Spam Mailbox section You can tell which messages SpamSieve itself has processed by looking in the log If your mail server has its own junk filter it is normal for that filter to put spam messages in the Junk mailbox Because the messages are filtered at the server level they never arrive in your inbox Your Mac therefore does not see them as new messages so it does not apply your regular Mail rules or the SpamSieve rule to them The How should 1 configure the junk filter on my mail server section has more information about server junk filters how SpamSieve interacts with them and how they can be turned off The Consolidating Spam From Multiple Filters section has more information about what to do if you don t want your spam to be split between two mailboxes Spam and Junk iCloud s Junk Filter As of April 2015 Apple has made its Cloud server junk filter much more aggressive It is putting a
141. e Message to mailbox Spam99 3 SpamSieve Gray messages with scores from 95 to 98 Every Message Move Message to mailbox Spam95 4 SpamSieve Purple messages with scores from 88 to 94 Every Message Move Message to mailbox Spam88 5 SpamSieve Red messages with scores from 81 to 87 Every Message Move Message to mailbox Spam81 6 SpamSieve Orange messages with scores from 75 to 80 Every Message Move Message to mailbox Spam75 7 SpamSieve Yellow messages with scores from 50 to 74 Every Message Move Message to mailbox Spam50 The unnumbered Spam mailbox will hold the messages that you manually train as spam If desired you can drag the other mailboxes inside the Spam mailbox Example 3 Sorting Messages By Spamminess You can sort the messages by spamminess On Mac OS X 10 6 just choose View gt Sort By gt Color Mac OS X 10 7 through 10 11 cannot sort messages by color but they can sort them by flags Thus you can set up rules like this 1 SpamSieve Score calculates the spam score color Every Message Move Message to mailbox Spam 57 2 SpamSieve Blue messages with scores from 99 to 100 Every Message Mark as Flagged Gray Move Message to mailbox Spam 3 SpamSieve Gray messages with scores from 95 to 98 Every Message Mark as Flagged Purple Move Message to mailbox Spam 4 SpamSieve Purple messages with scores from 88 to 94 Every Message Mark as Flagge
142. e POP account and an inactive IMAP account for the same username and server These might both be called Account A In this case you could rename the inactive one to Account A Inactive so that the names are different If you rename an inactive account Mail will ask if you want to enable the account Click Leave Disabled If renaming the accounts doesn t help please follow the instructions in the Sending in an Error Report section 7 1 3 Checking the Airmail Setup The Setting Up Airmail section describes how to set up Airmail to filter your mail using SpamSieve The SpamSieve application must be stored directly in your Applications folder as shown in the Installing SpamSieve section To test that the setup works 1 When you receive a new message note its subject 2 Click on SpamSieve s icon in the Dock 3 Choose Open Log from the SpamSieve menu The setup is correct if there s a log entry near the bottom that says Predicted Good or Predicted Spam and shows the subject for the new message 183 If you don t see the expected log entries for new messages please contact technical suppor and explain what happened when you followed these instructions Blocked Communication From Airmail to SpamSieve We have received several reports where Airmail on Mac OS X 10 10 Yosemite is unable to communicate with SpamSieve This prevents SpamSieve from being able to filter any incoming messages because Airmail can t
143. e automatically put in the spam mailbox Regardless of which color of spamminess it assigned them SpamSieve already thinks that they are spam e Do not train messages that a server filter automatically caught in the Junk mailbox or Bulk Mail mailbox e Do not train as spam messages that are merely unwanted i e messages from Legitimate mailing lists that you no longer wish to read Companies that you have done business with People that you know who send or forward annoying messages These messages are not spam so training them as such could confuse SpamSieve For mailing lists there should be instructions at the bottom of the e mail to unsubscribe Social media sites have ways that you can configure which types of messages they send you For other types of unwanted messages you can optionally create a rule in your mail program above the SpamSieve rule to move or delete them before SpamSieve sees them e Do not delete unwanted whitelist or blocklist rules that SpamSieve auto created Instead let SpamSieve automatically disable the matching rules when you train messages as spam or as good Undoing a Training If you make a mistake and tell SpamSieve that a message is spam when it is actually good or vice versa simply correct yourself as you would correct SpamSieve That is if the message is good train it as good if it is spam train it as spam SpamSieve will undo the previous incorrect training Disable Othe
144. e custom code This should be much faster and more reliable e Loading and saving the rules is faster due to a better file format e The rules and corpus message counts are now saved to disk during idle time rather than when quitting This should prevent data loss in the event that SpamSieve doesn t quit normally e The whitelist and blocklist are more memory efficient e Plugged memory leak in EDMessage e Fixed crash involving certain really long header lines e Fixed bug where the Whitelist and Blocklist windows weren t always up to date e Table views are smarter about not scrolling unnecessarily to maintain their selections e The Whitelist and Blocklist windows now secondary sort by sender e Changes to the preferences are saved to disk immediately e Fixed bug where tables saved their sorted columns but didn t restore them 214 When SpamSieve gets a fatal error it now quits like it says it will 2 0 September 10 2003 SpamSieve now extracts a lot more information from each message This makes it much more accurate and also makes it learn faster Now integrates with Eudora 6 Sponsored or Paid via a plug in It can now process every incoming Eudora message and can be trained using the Junk and Not Junk commands in Eudora s Message menu SpamSieve now has a blocklist and a whitelist These are automatically maintained based on the senders of messages that SpamSieve is trained with The blocklist makes sure that all m
145. e mail move if spam 139 7 13 8 Why does SpamSieve always need an update when Mac OS X is updated The top of the SpamSieve Support page always has the latest information about compatibility and public beta versions It is important see below to update SpamSieve before updating Mac OS X To prevent Mac OS X from updating itself without asking you go to the App Store section of System Preferences and make sure that Install OS X updates is unchecked Compatibility With Mac OS X Updates SpamSieve is developed using best practices so it ordinarily continues to run normally when Mac OS X is updated That said newer versions of SpamSieve are better at recognizing the latest types of spam and contain many other improvements so it s best to run the latest version of SpamSieve that your Mac supports 8 You can easily update to the latest version by choosing Software Update from the SpamSieve menu Compatibility With Apple Mail Updates If you are using Apple Mail you may have to update SpamSieve each time you update Mac OS X The reason for this is that SpamSieve uses a plug in to integrate with Apple Mail Each time Apple makes a change to Mail which it does in most OS updates there is a chance that the plug in will stop working properly Depending on the nature of the changes an old plug in running in a newer version of Mail could prevent Mail itself from working properly This has never actually happened with the SpamSieve p
146. e message was spam e If good messages are being predicted as spam and you don t understand why please send in a report Trained Good Spam Manual Log Entries These log entries represent messages that you had trained as good or spam using the menu commands in your mail program Trained Good Spam Auto Log Entries These log entries represent messages that SpamSieve auto trained It s normal for SpamSieve to auto train a message as good if it thinks that the message isn t spam This will add the sender to the whitelist to ensure that future messages from that sender get through to your inbox If you later train the message as spam SpamSieve will disable uncheck the whitelist rule Thus auto training should not ordinarily cause problems unless you receive a large flurry of messages from the same sender address or if you forget to train the message as spam and then the address remains enabled on the whitelist For more information see the Auto train with incoming mail section Searching the Log If you have a question about a particular message you can search the log to see whether there s a Predicted entry for it It s best to search the log using Console s Edit gt Find gt Find command rather than the Filter search field in the toolbar You may also find it easier to search by using the Edit Log command Accessing the Log Files SpamSieve stores its log in the folder Users lt username gt Libr
147. e more messages you train SpamSieve with the better its accuracy will be However using more than 1 000 messages initially would fill up SpamSieve s corpus with older 35 messages making it slower and less effective at adapting to new kinds of spam that you ll receive in the future The messages should be approximately 65 spam For example use 650 spams and 350 good messages or 65 spams and 35 good messages It is better to use fewer messages in the initial training i e not use all your saved mail than to deviate from the recommended percentage For example if you have 500 good messages but only 195 saved spam messages don t train SpamSieve with all 695 messages Instead train it with the 195 spams and about 105 representative good messages In order to monitor your progress you can go to SpamSieve s Filter menu and choose Show Statistics The Corpus section in the middle of the Statistics window shows how many good and spam messages SpamSieve has been trained with and what percentage of them are spam After the initial training SpamSieve will automatically train itself and you ll only need to train it to correct mistakes After the initial training you don t have to worry about the number or percentage of messages in the corpus SpamSieve will automatically learn from new messages as they arrive and keep its corpus properly balanced Accuracy will improve with time but if you ve used at least 100 or so messages in the
148. e no false positives The e mail program downloads messages directly from the mail server thus avoiding the problems of client side filters and proxies You can train the anti spam software to improve its accuracy from inside your e mail program and accuracy is higher than with server side filters because the anti spam software can learn from the messages that you receive You can also control how the spam filter interacts with your regular mail sorting rules 1 4 Main Features e Powerful Bayesian spam filtering results in high accuracy and almost no false positives It adapts to the mail that you receive to get even better with time Some other e mail programs include Bayesian filters but SpamSieve is more accurate e Integrates with your e mail program for a superior user experience Plus you get the same great filtering if you ever switch e mail programs or use more than one at a time e Integrates with the Mac OS X address book and also Eudora s and Entourage s address books so that messages from friends and colleagues are never marked as spam e Automatically maintains a blocklist so that it can instantly adapt to spam messages sent from particular addresses and catch 100 of them e Automatically maintains a whitelist to guarantee that messages from particular senders or mailing lists are never marked as spam without cluttering your address book with these addresses e You can customize the whitelist and blocklist adding sophisti
149. e rules in Mail to file messages into different mailboxes or otherwise process them differently based on how spammy they are The normal SpamSieve rule looks like this Description SpamSieve If any of the following conditions are met Every Message Perform the following actions Move Message to mailbox P Spam 2 Cancel OK To separate spam messages by color spamminess you should instead create two or more rules The first rule should be named SpamSieve Score As above you probably want the conditions to be Every Message When this rule is applied SpamSieve will calculate the spam score of the message and set its color accordingly The actions of the Score rule will be ignored Below the Score rule you can create one or more rules that process messages based on their color e Each of these rules should have a name that starts with SpamSieve followed by one or more color names in square brackets For example to make a rule that matches the most spammy Blue and Gray messages you would name it SpamSieve Blue Gray or SpamSieve Gray Blue You can include additional descriptive text after the brackets to remind you of what the rule does e The rule conditions should be Every Message e Asa shorthand for listing all of the colors you can simply write Spam 55 e To match non spam messages you can write White Additionally if you have rules to process every color and those rules actions either move
150. e spam is in the Web mail inbox but not the Mac s there is likely a problem with the mail program on your Mac 3 14 1 Converting Your Apple Mail Setup to IMAP This section discusses how to change your Apple Mail setup from POP to IMAP so that you can use SpamSieve for iPhone Spam Filtering A similar setup will also work with other mail programs 1 Choose Preferences from the Mail menu and click on Accounts Your account s will be listed at the left of the window If it already says IMAP or iCloud under your account there s nothing more that you need to do 2 If it says POP you will need to disable the POP account and create a new IMAP one Click on the POP account and make note of the contents of the Account Information tab Click on the Advanced tab Uncheck Include when automatically checking for new mail Then click the Remove now button to remove from the server any messages that you ve already downloaded 3 Click the button at the bottom of the window and follow the steps to create a new account Choose IMAP for the account type For the server and login enter the information that you noted for the POP account Note some providers use a different incoming mail server name for IMAP Put IMAP at the end of the description so that you can tell this account apart from the old one 18http apple stackexchange com questions 106340 mail app 7 0 what does check for new messages automatically actually do P Pp g q PP g y
151. e sure that it s set to Move deleted message to this folder Otherwise the caught spams may still appear on your iPhone 6 Choose Preferences from the Outlook menu and click on Reading Make sure that Hide IMAP messages marked for deletion is checked This will ensure that you do not see spam messages that were caught on another computer To test that the rules work 1 Select a spam message in Outlook 2 Choose SpamSieve Train as Spam from the Scripts menu to tell SpamSieve that it is spam Remove the categories of the message using Message gt Categorize gt Clear All e w Drag the message back to your inbox and select it there 5 Choose Rules gt Apply gt SpamSieve Set Category from the Message menu If the message s category was changed to Junk after Step 4 the rule worked SpamSieve will be able to catch other messages like this if it s properly configured and trained If the message s category did not change to Junk there is some other problem with Outlook or SpamSieve Please contact technical support and explain what happened when you followed these instructions 7 1 9 Checking the Outlook 2016 Setup To test that the scripts work 1 Choose Install Outlook Scripts from the SpamSieve menu 2 Select a spam message in Outlook 3 Choose SpamSieve Train as Spam from the Scripts menu to tell SpamSieve that it is spam 4 Remove the categories of the message using Message gt Categorize gt Cl
152. e will be able to catch other messages like this if it s properly configured and trained If the message s category did not change to Junk there is some other problem with Entourage or SpamSieve Please contact technical support and explain what happened when you followed these instructions 7 1 5 Checking the Eudora Setup The Setting Up Eudora section describes how to set up Eudora to filter your mail using SpamSieve 1 Make sure that you see SpamSieve s plug in and no other junk spam plug ins listed when you choose About Message Plug Ins from the Eudora menu 2 Make sure that the Junk Threshold is set to 50 and Hold junk in Junk mailbox is checked in Eudora s Junk Mail settings 3 Make sure that Run junk scoring plugins on this IMAP account is checked in Eudora s IMAP settings if you have an IMAP account 4 Make sure that Mail isn t junk if the sender is in an address book in Eudora s Junk Mail pane is not checked 7 1 6 Checking the GyazMail Setup 1 Make sure that you have followed the instructions in the Setting Up GyazMail section 2 Make sure that the SpamSieve rule is at the top of the list To test that the rules work 1 Select a spam message in GyazMail From the Message menu choose Junk gt Mark as Junk Drag the message back to your inbox and select it there Sp From the Message menu choose Apply Rule gt All Rules If the message moves back to your spam mailbox the rule worked
153. ear All 5 Drag the message back to your inbox and select it there 6 Choose SpamSieve Move If Spam from the Message menu If the message moved to the Junk E mail folder and its category was changed to Junk after Step 6 the script worked SpamSieve will be able to catch other messages like this if it s properly configured and trained If the message s category did not change to Junk there is some other problem with Outlook or SpamSieve Please contact technical support 9 and explain what happened when you followed these instructions Please include your Console log 137http c command com spamsieve support 138http c command com spamsieve support 108 7 1 10 Checking the Postbox Setup The Setting Up Postbox section describes how to set up Postbox to filter your mail using SpamSieve 1 Go to Postbox s Tools menu and choose Add ons The Installed Add Ons section of the window should show SpamSieve Postbox Plug in 2 Make sure that Do not mark mail as junk if the sender is in is not checked 3 Make sure that Trust junk mail headers set by is not checked To test that the setup works 1 When you receive a new message note its subject 2 Click on SpamSieve s icon in the Dock 3 Choose Open Log from the SpamSieve menu The setup is correct if there s a log entry near the bottom that says Predicted Good or Predicted Spam and shows the subject for the new message 139 If you don t see the ex
154. ear in the whitelist unless you ve changed DisableWhitelistRules in the esoteric preferences Example 96 You receive an Amazon order receipt and train SpamSieve with it as a good message This puts auto confirm amazon com on the whitelist so that future order receipts are always marked as good A spammer might decide that auto confirm amazon com would make a good fake return address If you receive such a spam SpamSieve would mark it as good because the sender was on the whitelist If you then tell SpamSieve that the message is spam it will disable the whitelist rule so that it can catch future spam messages with that return address 6 3 4 Train SpamSieve blocklist With this option enabled training SpamSieve with a spam message will add the message sender s name and address to SpamSieve s blocklist This will make SpamSieve classify all future messages from that sender as spam Training SpamSieve with a good message will disable the sender s name and address if they appear in the blocklist 6 3 5 Train Bayesian classifier With this option enabled training SpamSieve with a message will add the words from that message to SpamSieve s corpus It is highly recommended that you train the Bayesian classifier as it is what SpamSieve uses to catch most spam messages 97 6 4 Advanced 009 Preferences Filters Notification Training Spam catching strategy Conservative Aggressive Fewer False Positives Catch More Spam
155. ed rows to the clipboard or drag them to another application The selection is preserved when you change the sort column you can sort in descending order and the sorted column is remembered between launches The Home and End keys work The Prune Corpus command now tells you how many words it would remove and asks for confirmation The statistics tracking is smarter about handling duplicate messages The statistics have tooltips explaining what they mean and you can copy all of the statistics to the clipboard at once Improved accuracy tracking of PowerMail and Emailer messages 217 Eudora Integration Can mark spam messages as read and or mark them for removal from the server Expanded the AppleScript dictionary to enable better integration with mail and news clients Entourage Integration Creates Junk category if there isn t one and can mark spam messages as read Mailsmith Integration The adding scripts now set the appropriate message properties Better parsing of messages with illegal characters in the headers SpamSieve s Info plist file contains an LSUIElement entry Change the 0 to a 1 to hide the application s Dock icon You ll need to change it back to access the preferences The message count display has moved from the Corpus window to the Statistics window Better error message when the corpus couldn t be saved Added tooltips to preferences The registration window gives better feedback when you personaliz
156. ed the instructions for using Microsoft Outlook and Entourage with Exchange accounts Updated the Setting Up Postbox section of the manual Made various improvements to the documentation Updated the Danish and Spanish localizations 2 8 4 October 13 2010 243nttp www postbox inc com 244nttp freron com 190 SpamSieve now integrates with Microsoft Outlook 201174 For more information see the Setting Up Outlook section of the manual SpamSieve now integrates with Postbox an enhanced version of Thunderbird For more infor mation see the Setting Up Postbox section of the manual Adjusted SpamSieve s tokenizer to improve the filtering accuracy The Train as Good command in Apple Mail is better at moving messages in the spam folder or trash back to the inbox Fixed a regression where the whitelist and blocklist windows wouldn t open when running Spam Sieve under certain localizations Improved the localizations 2 8 3 August 31 2010 Adjusted SpamSieve s tokenizer to improve the filtering accuracy Improved compatibility with pre release versions of Apple Mail MailForge now works with SpamSieve as described in the Setting Up MailForge section of the manual Made some changes to better support the upcoming Microsoft Outlook 2011 Full support will come when Office ships Added various updates and clarifications to the manual Fixed a regression where SpamSieve wouldn t be able to instal
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158. efault 2 9 12 December 16 2013 Works with Apple Mail under Mac OS X 10 9 1 It s easiest if you update to SpamSieve 2 9 12 before updating to Mac OS X 10 9 1 In any case if you don t see the SpamSieve commands in Apple Mail s Message menu be sure to choose Install Apple Mail Plug In from the SpamSieve menu Otherwise with the SpamSieve plug in not installed Mail will move good messages to the spam mailbox On Mac OS X 10 9 Mavericks Apple Mail is slower at moving messages to the Spam mailbox when you choose SpamSieve Train as Spam SpamSieve includes a workaround to move messages faster by using GUI scripting instead of regular AppleScript To enable the workaround please see the AppleMailTrainSpamGUIScripting option in the Esoteric Preferences section of the manual Versions 1 2 1 and later of the Airmail e mail client include support for SpamSieve The Setting Up Airmail section of the manual describes how to use SpamSieve with Airmail 225nttp airmailapp com 182 226 It is now possible to set up a spam filtering drone using the MailMate e mail client This is described in the Setting Up a MailMate Drone section of the manual The Flash PowerMate feature is now compatible with and requires version 3 0 of the Griffin PowerMate software You can now hold down the Option key when you click Check Now in the Software Update window to always download the latest version even if your version is already
159. ent this from happening e Since these messages are invisible to SpamSieve it is not necessary or recommended that you train it with them If you cannot turn off your server s Bulk Mail mailbox you can use the Apple Mail Server Junk Mailbox script to have SpamSieve sort through the bulk mail for you 7 6 1 Turning Off the AOL Spam Filter 8 There are instructions for disabling AOL s spam filter using the AOL Desktop software as well as the AOL Web site 9 7 6 2 Turning Off the FastMail Spam Filter 1 Log into FastMail s Web mail and click on the Mail menu at the top left 2 Click on Mail then Advanced then Spam Virus Protection 3 In the Spam Protection Settings make sure that Custom is selected M46nttp c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail server junk mailbox M47http c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail server junk mailbox M48nttp help aol com help microsites search do cmd displayKC amp docType ex amp dialogID 25176800 amp docTypeID DT_AOLFAQS_1_1 amp externalId 149http support2 constantcontact com articles FAQ 3323 120 Spam Protection Settings Spam Protection Basic Known insecure email hosts relays are always blocked xbl Normal Known insecure email hosts relays are always blocked xbl Likely spam is placed in your Junk Mail folder Email from people in your address book is definite not spam No email is discarded by the spam filter er _ Aggressive
160. entry for that message was added to the log 7 1 8 Checking the Outlook Setup 1 Choose Install Outlook Scripts from the SpamSieve menu 2 Choose Junk E mail protection from Outlook s Tools menu and make sure it s set to None 3 Choose Mailing List Manager from Outlook s Tools menu If there are any rules for each rule click on the Advanced tab and make sure that Do not apply rules to list messages is unchecked If you continue to experience problems try unchecking each rule itself to disable it 4 Choose Rules from Outlook s Tools menu and make sure that you ve created two SpamSieve rules as shown in the Setting Up Outlook section a Make sure that the rules are of the proper type That is if you have a POP mail account you need two POP rules if you have an IMAP account you need two IMAP rules Make sure that the SpamSieve Move Messages rule says If any conditions rather than If all conditions Make sure that the SpamSieve rules are at the top of the list Make sure that the SpamSieve Set Category rule is above the SpamSieve Move Messages rule Make sure both SpamSieve rules have check marks next to their names indicating that they are enabled Make sure there are no other rules that move messages to the Junk E mail folder 107 5 Choose Accounts from Outlook s Tools menu If you have any IMAP accounts click the Advanced button then click the Folders tab and mak
161. enu SpamSieve will process new mail automatically If you ever need to manually ask it to sift through a mix of spam and good messages select the messages and choose Perform Filter gt Perform All Filters from the Mail menu 34 The above is all you need to know about using SpamSieve with PowerMail The Customization section explains some more advanced setup options For more information about how to configure PowerMail s handling of spam messages please see the PowerMail documentation 3 10 Setting Up Gmail iCloud Yahoo AOL or Other Web Mail SpamSieve works with Web mail accounts provided that they allow access via POP IMAP or Exchange Just configure Apple Mail to access your account and then follow the normal SpamSieve setup instructions in the Setting Up Apple Mail section SpamSieve will then filter your Web mail when Apple Mail is running You can train SpamSieve from within Apple Mail If you use the drone setup you can also train SpamSieve from your Web browser by moving messages into the special training mailboxes See also the How should I configure the junk filter on my mail server section Gmail and All Mail When using Gmail it is recommended that you hide the All Mail folder from IMAP so that your Mac does not receive a duplicate copy of every message 1 In Gmail click on the gear menu at the top right and select Settings 2 Click on Labels which is next to General at the top of the screen 3 Under Syste
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163. ering an error when it tries to move the message Please see Sending in an Error Report 3 Sometimes Mail rules will not move messages that were processed immediately after the Mac woke from sleep You can work around this problem by quitting Mail before sleeping your Mac or by changing the Energy Saver settings so that your Mac does not to go to sleep automatically You can also use the QuitMailWhenMacSleeps esoteric preference to make SpamSieve automatically quit Mail before the Mac sleeps and launch it when it wakes 4 Recent versions of Mail have problems communicating with certain mail servers Mail is more reliable at moving messages from the inbox to another mailbox on the same server than it is at moving the messages to a local mailbox The Using a Spam Mailbox on the Server section of the manual explains how you can store your spam on the IMAP or Exchange server so that Mail is better able to move it out of the inbox 5 See whether the problem still occurs if you disable other Mail plug ins as described in the Can other Apple Mail plug ins cause problems with SpamSieve section 6 Mail s database may be damaged Please see the How can I rebuild Apple Mail s database section of the manual 7 Try using the Apple Mail Move If Spam script to filter your spam instead of the regular SpamSieve rule The script uses a different code path in Mail that may work around the problem 166http c command com scripts spamsieve appl
164. es how to set up and train SpamSieve with Apple Mail 1 Quit Mail Then double click the SpamSieve application and choose Install Apple Mail Plug In from the SpamSieve menu at the top left of the screen Now launch Mail and you should see the SpamSieve Change Settings SpamSieve Train as Good and SpamSieve Train as Spam items in Mail s Message menu 35nttp c command com blog 2007 01 24 spamsieve screencast 18 ESSE Format Window Help Send Again 36D Reply R Reply All TER Forward HF Forward as Attachment Redirect CHE Mark gt Flag gt Archive SpamSieve Change Settings SpamSieve Train as Good SpamSieve Train as Spam SpamSieve Open Window Move to gt Copy to gt HG dS If you do not see these commands please see the Why don t I see the SpamSieve commands in Apple Mail s Message menu section Choose New Mailbox or New from Mail s Mailbox menu and create a new mailbox called Spam with location On My Mac Note The capitalization is important do not call the mailbox SPAM or spam Choose Preferences from the Mail menu and click the Rules button in the toolbar Click the Add Rule button Change the description to SpamSieve Note The description of the rule must start with SpamSieve but you can add additional text after that if you want so long as you don t use square brackets which SpamSieve uses those for color
165. escribed in the Correct All Mistakes section If SpamSieve misclassified some messages and you have not yet corrected its mistakes do so now If you ve already deleted the misclassified messages it s too late to correct the mistakes choose Reset Corpus from the Filter menu and then follow the instructions in the Do an Initial Training section 140nttp c command com spamsieve support 141 http c command com spamsieve support 110 3 Check the percentage of spam messages in the Corpus section of the Statistics window It should be between 55 and 75 If not train SpamSieve with more spam or good messages so that the percentage is in this range 4 Check the number of spam and good messages in the Corpus section of the Statistics window If the corpus is very large more than 4 000 messages and SpamSieve is not catching your spam the corpus may contain incorrect or obsolete messages that reduce SpamSieve s effectiveness and make it slower to adapt Choose Reset Corpus from the Filter menu and then follow the instructions in the Do an Initial Training section Note You should only reset the corpus after you ve checked all the other items in the Why is SpamSieve not catching my spam section 7 1 14 How do I make SpamSieve catch spams sent from my own address Sometimes spammers forge one of your e mail addresses and send you spam messages that appear to be coming from yourself If SpamSieve is not properly configured these s
166. essage to be spam if its sender s e mail address is in the Contacts previously Address Book application You can add addresses to the system address book using the Contacts or Address Book application located in the Applications folder or directly from an e mail program that supports the system address book If spam messages get through to your inbox because they are sent from addresses in your address book you can either uncheck Use Mac OS X Address Book or see the Exclude my addresses section For more information please see the How do I make SpamSieve catch spams sent from my own address section Access to Your Contacts On Mac OS X 10 8 and later the first time you launch SpamSieve it will ask for permission to access your contacts You can change the access setting by opening System Preferences going to the Security z Privacy pane clicking on the Privacy tab clicking on Contacts in the list and checking or unchecking SpamSieve app Please note that the applications in the list are not sorted alphabetically Repeated Access Prompts If the system keeps asking you for permission to access your contacts and does not remember this between launches e You may need to reset the privacy database by entering this command in Terminal tccutil reset AddressBook e Your copy of SpamSieve may be damaged Please see the Reinstalling a Fresh Copy section Mail Client Address Books Entourage users may prefer to use Entourage s addre
167. essages from known spammers are caught and speeds processing for these messages The whitelist lets you be sure that certain messages will never be marked as spam this was possible before but now you don t have to clutter your address book with addresses from online retailers etc You can now control how conservative or aggressive SpamSieve is at catching spam SpamSieve can now play a sound or bounce its Dock icon after a batch of non spam messages has arrived This is meant to replace your e mail client s new mail notification which you don t want going off if all the new messages are spam Shows the number of new good messages in the Dock icon Now parses HTML so that it can better extract relevant information from HTML messages and also handle various HTML based tricks that spammers use to fool filters New method of calculating word probabilities makes SpamSieve better at discerning which words in the message are important Includes a corpus of seed spam to jump start spam recognition for users who do not have many saved spam messages The corpus is now stored in databases rather than in a property list This makes it launch faster and use much less memory as the corpus doesn t have to be all in RAM at the same time The statistics file format for History db has changed in order to enable performance improve ments and more statistical displays in future versions Handles more types of plain text obfuscations and is
168. essing Improved the troubleshooting documentation Updated the Japanese localization 2 4 1 January 25 2006 SpamSieve is now a universal binary Made various changes to SpamSieve s tokenizer and HTML parser to improve accuracy Improved filtering of messages containing attachments Added Apple Mail settings to control whether messages trained as spam are marked as read and or left on the server Better at finding notification sounds that are built into mail clients Now shows uncertain growls when notification is suppressed 252http www apple com universal 200 e SpamSieve now delegates more file reveal operations to Path Finder 4 since it fixes a bug in Path Finder 3 that prevented certain reveals from working e Rather than typing or copying and pasting your name and serial number to personalize Spam Sieve you can now click the x spamsieve URL that s sent to you when you purchase SpamSieve or get a serial number reminder e Fixed bug where the rules list would scroll one rule up if it was scrolled to the bottom and you edited a rule e Added Spanish localization and updated the Danish Italian Swedish and Vietnamese localiza tions e Improved the installation and troubleshooting documentation e Removed spurious Section 4 4 1 of the manual 2 4 November 16 2005 e Made various changes to the Bayesian engine to improve accuracy e Added some heuristics for detecting phishes e Ap
169. et Category rule to the top of the list Grok 6 In the Rules window as before repeat the following steps for each type of account that you have e g POP IMAP or Exchange under On My Computer a b Click the button Change the name of the rule to SpamSieve Move Messages Under When a new message arrives click on the pop up menu and change it to say Category Click on the pop up menu for None and change it to Junk The condition should now say Category Is Junk Click the button to the right of Junk to make a new condition gt Category Us Junk Click on From for the new condition and change it to say Category Click on the pop up menu for None and change it to Uncertain Junk The condition should now say Category Is Uncertain Junk Click on If all conditions are met and change it to If any conditions are met Under Do the following click on the button to the right of Not Junk E mail to delete the Change status action Change Status Not Junk E mail Click on the pop up menu that says Set Category and select Move Message a gt Set Category None Change the menu at the right from None to Junk E mail You may have to choose Choose Folder and type Junk to be able to select the Junk E mail folder The rule should now look like 30 Rule name SpamSieve Move Messages When a new message arrives If any conditions are met Category Is Junk
170. ete using Command Delete instead of Delete When a word or rule is deleted SpamSieve selects a nearby rule so that you don t lose your place When deleting many words at once SpamSieve no longer shows a progress window for deletions that will not take very long Entering the name and serial number to personalize SpamSieve is now more foolproof SpamSieve strips leading and trailing whitespace and it detects when you enter a coupon code in the serial number field Fixed regression where SpamSieve rejected names containing non ASCII characters In addition there s a new button for quickly redeeming coupons Updated to the latest eSellerate SDK so that purchasing SpamSieve from within the application is faster SpamSieve now requires Mac OS X 10 2 6 or later Fixed bug where dates entered in the Statistics window were sometimes parsed in GMT instead of the local time zone thus causing the date to be off by a few hours Improved the reliability and user interface of the crash reporter No longer crashes when parsing certain non RFC822 compliant Eudora messages 2 0 2 October 1 2003 Now works with Apple Mail IMAP and Mac only not POP 213 e The message count in the Dock icon now resets when an e mail client becomes active rather than just when SpamSieve became active You can also control the size and position of the number in the Dock icon e Much faster at deleting lots of rules at once e Replaced the message store dat
171. eve Train as Spam command and for most incoming messages that SpamSieve thinks are spam Uncertain Junk This is for incoming messages that SpamSieve thinks are spam but whose scores are below the un certainty threshold For more information about scores and uncertainty see the A spam message is uncertain if preference To change the colors associated with these categories choose Message gt Categorize gt Edit Categories Normally both Junk and Uncertain Junk messages are put into the same Junk E mail folder It is also possible to separate the messages by category To do this 1 Create a new folder in Outlook called Uncertain Junk 2 Create a third rule called SpamSieve Move Uncertain Messages It should say If Category Is Uncertain Junk Then Move message Uncertain Junk 3 Drag the new rule between the SpamSieve Set Category and SpamSieve Move Messages rules To turn off the uncertain spam feature so that all spam messages are marked using the Junk category use the SpamSieve Change Settings command 65 4 8 3 Separate Spam Folders for Each Outlook Account Normally SpamSieve puts the spam messages from all your Outlook accounts into a single folder called Junk E mail If you want to have a separate spam folder for each account first create the requisite empty folders Then instead of the single SpamSieve Move Messages rule described in the Setting Up Outlook section create two rules per acc
172. eve Train as Spam command is Command Control S The key board shortcut for the SpamSieve Train as Good command is Command Control G You can change the keyboard shortcuts 1 Open System Preferences 2 Click on the Keyboard icon Click on the Shortcuts or Keyboard Shortcuts on older versions of Mac OS X tab pa oo Select App Shortcuts or Application Shortcuts on older versions of Mac OS X Or Click the button For Application select Mail For the Menu Title enter SpamSieve Train as Spam Click in the box next to Keyboard Shortcut and enter your desired shortcut SOP a AT SS Click the Add button 54 4 6 5 Spam Message Colors in Apple Mail Using Background Colors to Show Spam Levels SpamSieve sets the colors of spam messages to reflect how spammy it thinks they are The order from most to least spammy is Blue Gray Purple Red Orange or Yellow Good messages are left uncolored Thus if you are skimming the Spam mailbox for false positives pay the most attention to the yellow and orange messages The SpamSieve Change Settings command lets you enable or disable spam message coloring Spam messages caught by a server junk filter are not processed by SpamSieve and thus not colored Using a Score Rule to Filter Spam Messages By Color The Setting Up Apple Mail section of the manual shows how to create a single rule in Mail that puts all the spam messages in a single Spam mailbox You can also use multipl
173. eve commands in Apple Mail s Message menu be sure to choose Install Apple Mail Plug In from the SpamSieve menu Otherwise with the SpamSieve plug in not installed Mail will move good messages to the spam mailbox without consulting SpamSieve 203nttp c command com scripts 177 Added preliminary support for Microsoft Outlook 15 32 part of Office 365 This is described in the Setting Up Outlook 2016 section of the manual Added the following sections to the manual Setting Up Outlook 2016 Checking the Outlook 2016 Setup What can I do if Apple Mail is crashing Improved the following sections of the manual among others Setting Up Airmail Setting Up GyazMail Setting Up MailMate Why does SpamSieve always need an update when Mac OS X is updated The Apple Mail Discard Spam script 205 is faster and more reliable for large mailboxes Improved the error reporting when writing to the log file and the disk is full SpamSieve is better able to recover from incorrect launch agent file ownership The Quit when mail client quits feature now works with Airmail 2 The Blocklist and Whitelist windows now display the number of rules using commas if there are more than 1 000 The Purchase window now accepts serial numbers copied and pasted from a PDF of an order confirmation after the browser has transliterated the dashes Updated the toolbar icons for Mac OS X 10 10 Updated the disk image icon for
174. ferences from the Growl menu Click on the Appli cations tab and select SpamSieve at the left of the window Growl 1 3 x Choose Open Growl Preferences from the Growl menu Growl 1 2 Open the Growl pane in System Preferences 6 2 8 Include message bodies Growl notifications always include the message s subject and sender This setting controls whether they also include the first few lines of the message s body Including the message body provides more context which is particularly useful for Uncertain Spam notifications but it also uses more screen space 94 6 3 Training 009 Preferences _ Filters Notification Advanced Duplicates Allow good duplicates in corpus Allow spam duplicates in corpus Learning Auto train with incoming mail Filters Train SpamSieve whitelist Train SpamSieve blocklist Train Bayesian classifier 6 3 1 Allow duplicates in corpus If you allow duplicate messages in the corpus training SpamSieve with the same message twice will increase the corpus counts for the words in that message If you do not allow duplicate messages the second and subsequent trainings with that message will have no effect By default duplicate messages are not allowed in the corpus This is nice because it means that you do not have to remember which messages you have already trained SpamSieve with accidentally training with the same message more than once will not skew the data that you are providing to SpamSie
175. fficult to know which copy of SpamSieve needs to be trained to correct a mistake There are several ways to deal with this in order of preference 1 Run SpamSieve on a single Mac and let it clean your inbox for all the Macs All the training is done from that Mac This is the simplest solution It works well when the Mac with SpamSieve will be running most of the time and when you can easily access that Mac to do the training 2 Run SpamSieve on a single Mac using the drone setup This setup works well when the Mac with SpamSieve will be running most of the time When you re away from that Mac you can remotely train SpamSieve from any Mac iOS device or even via Web mail 3 Run SpamSieve on all the Macs and uncheck the Auto train with incoming mail preference on all the Macs You can train whichever Mac you happen to be using at the moment This will have lower filtering accuracy than 1 or 2 but is useful in situations when you do not have a single Mac that is always available for mail filtering With auto training off you may find it especially helpful to enable whitelisting of previous recipients 4 Run SpamSieve on all the Macs being careful to only let one copy of SpamSieve run at a time and to always correct all the mistakes before switching to another Mac This will give better filtering accuracy than 3 but is a lot more work Server Spam Mailbox With the normal setup spam messages are stored locally so they are only ac
176. for Help Viewer bug Increased the maximum width of the Hits column in rule list windows Added thousands separators throughout the Statistics Corpus and rules windows Fixed bug where adding a rule didn t create a new rule if there was already a rule with a blank Text to Match Fixed rare crashing bug when performing operations during idle time Removed the Import Messages command which let you train SpamSieve directly from a file in mbox format because there are now very few situations where it is useful and it was confusing people Added screenshot showing where to find Entourage scripts 2 4 4 July 13 2006 Made various changes to improve SpamSieve s accuracy particularly when processing blank mes sages HTML messages and messages containing images The following strings may now be used in rules to match headers that are missing lt SpamSieve Unknown Subject gt lt SpamSieve Unknown From gt lt SpamSieve Unknown FromName gt lt SpamSieve Unknown To gt It is somewhat common for messages to have a blank subject which can be matched using the empty string but legitimate messages that omit the Subject for From header are rare and now these can easily be matched by creating the appropriate rules on the blocklist Quit when mail client quits is now enabled by default Log entries are now abbreviated when the string that matched the rule is long The Apple Mail Train as Good command can now move messages
177. ft User Data gt 3 Office 2011 AutoRecovery gt 3 Office 2011 Identities y 7 Outlook Script Menu Items Read Me pdf gt SpamSieve Change Settings scpt fi SpamSieve Set Category scpt Ez SpamSieve Train as Good cmG scpt SpamsSieve Train as Spam cmS scpt gt 3 Outlook Sound Sets gt 3 Saved Attachments gt J Word Script Menu Items 5 8 10 8 6 10 6 23 10 6 23 10 3 31 PM 7 21 10 7 21 10 7 21 10 7 21 10 7 21 10 8 6 10 3 22 PM 6 23 10 f Make sure that Do not apply other rules is unchecked For a POP account the rule should now look like this Rule name SpamSieve Set Category When a new message arrives All Messages If all conditions are met Do the following Run AppleScript Users mjt Documents Mic amSieve Set Category scpt C Do not apply other rules to messages that meet these conditions mM Enabled For an IMAP or Exchange account the rule should now look like this 29 g h Rule name SpamSieve Set Category When a new message arrives If any conditions are met Folder ls INBOX Account 1 Folder is INBOX Account 2 Do the following Run AppleScript Script Users mjt Documents Mic amSieve Set Category scpt _ Do not apply other rules to messages that meet these conditions mM Enabled Cancel LL _ Click OK to close the sheet Drag the SpamSieve S
178. g the plug in see the Installing the Plug In Manually section below 156 2 Control click on the Eudora application file choose Show Package Contents and open the Contents folder Make sure that the Esoteric Settings 6 0 file is in the PlugIns folder if necessary move it there from the PlugIns Disabled folder Make sure that the SpamWatch OSX and SpamHeaders OSX files are not in the PlugIns folder if necessary move them to the PlugIns Disabled folder 3 When you start up Eudora you should see SpamSieve listed in the About Message Plug ins window that is accessible from the Eudora menu Note The version number displayed in this window is the version of the SpamSieve Eudora Plug In it will not be the same as the version number of the SpamSieve application The current plug in version is displayed in SpamSieve s about box 4 Choose Preferences from the Eudora menu scroll down to the Junk Extras settings panel which is at the very bottom and check Always enable Junk Not Junk menu items Next select the Junk Mail pane and make sure that Hold junk in Junk mailbox is checked The Junk Threshold slider must be set to the middle position 50 If you are using IMAP make sure that Run junk scoring plugins on this IMAP account is checked in the IMAP settings pane 5 Now proceed to the Do an Initial Training section e To train SpamSieve with spam messages select one or more of them and then choose Junk from Eudora s Message
179. g the special Junk mailbox at the top section of the mailbox list If the Junk mailbox is not visible you can get Mail to show it without enabling Mail s built in junk mail filter by following the instructions in Automatically Deleting Old Spam Messages 2 For each account select the mailbox that the server junk filter is using and choose Mailbox gt Use This Mailbox As gt Junk Mailbox This will make Mail show it under the special Junk mailbox 3 Change the SpamSieve rule to move messages to the special Junk mailbox rather than the Spam mailbox 4 Choose SpamSieve Change Settings from Mail s Message menu and when prompted enter Junk as the name of the mailbox for trained spam messages 62 5 Delete any Spam Junk mailboxes that are no longer in use With this setup the only way to tell whether SpamSieve or a server filter was what classified a message as spam is to look in SpamSieve s log Rescuing Good Messages Caught By Server Filter Manually Re filter the Junk Mailbox The above methods put all your spam in one place but they have the disadvantage that the server filter may mistakenly put good messages in the Junk mailbox To consolidate your spam and have SpamSieve save you from this type of server mistake 1 Periodically select all the messages in the Junk mailbox 2 Go to Mail s Message menu and choose Apply Rules SpamSieve will move the messages that it thinks are spam to the Spam mailbox 3 Any mess
180. ge Settings command 8 3 Setting Up Entourage v X 1 Go to Entourage s Tools menu and select Junk Mail Filter Turn off Entourage s junk filter unchecking Enable Junk Mail Filter 2 Double click the SpamSieve application and choose Preferences from the SpamSieve menu Make sure that Use Entourage Outlook address book is checked and click the Load button Then click on the SpamSieve icon in the Dock and choose Update Address Book Me Card from the SpamSieve menu next to the Apple menu 3 Choose Install Entourage Scripts from the SpamSieve menu Quit and re launch Entourage then you should see four SpamSieve items in Entourage s Scripts menu Tools Window Help About This Menu Create Event from Message E Create Note from Message WN Create Task from Message AT SpamSieve Change Settings SpamSieve Move lfSpam 36M SpamSieve Train Good G 5pamSieve Train Spam ES 4 Now set up a mail rule in Entourage that looks like this 152 Rule name Spanic move Spa op Add Criterion DH Remove Criterion Execute All messages Then Run AppleScript E Script SpamSieve Move If Spam cmM mM Do not apply other rules to messages that meet these criteria A enabled CD To do this choose Rules from Entourage s Tools menu Click on the tab corresponding to the type of account you have e g POP If you have more than one kind of account you will need
181. ges You should be sure to manually train it with some examples of these messages so that it has seen some examples of good messages with this type of content 4 3 Automatically Deleting Old Spam Messages You can set your mail program to automatically delete old spam messages However if you do this you should still review your spam messages to make sure that no good messages are deleted Not only would you lose such messages if you don t correct all the mistakes but SpamSieve would also incorrectly learn that they are spam leading to more mistakes in the future Apple Mail You can quickly delete all the messages in the Spam mailbox using the Apple Mail Discard Spam script Mail also has a feature to automatically delete old spam messages from the Junk mailbox You can use this feature if you tell SpamSieve to put spam messages in the Junk mailbox instead of the Spam mailbox If you do this be careful not to use the Junk and Not Junk buttons that will appear in Mail when the Junk mailbox is active you should always use the SpamSieve Train as Good and SpamSieve Train as Spam commands instead You can use the Customize Toolbar command in Mail s View menu to remove the Junk button from the toolbar Also if you select a message that SpamSieve has classified as spam Mail will show a banner saying that you marked it as junk Ignore this 1 If you want to store your spam locally On My Mac you can skip this step If you want to s
182. ges select one or more of them and then choose Message gt Mark gt As Not Junk or click the Not Junk button in the toolbar SpamSieve will process new mail automatically If you ever need to manually ask it to sift through a mix of spam and good messages select the messages and choose Message gt Mark gt Run Junk Mail Controls 9 Legal Stuff Copyright and Trademarks SpamSieve and this manual are copyright 2002 2015 by C Command Software LLC All rights reserved SpamSieve is a trademark of C Command Software LLC Mac is a registered trademark of Apple Computer All other products mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners End User License Agreement CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING LICENSE AGREEMENT YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BY DOWNLOADING AND INSTALLING THE PROGRAM IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS LICENSE THEN DO NOT DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL THE PROGRAM AND REMOVE THE SOFTWARE FROM YOUR COMPUTER License Grant You means the person or company who is being licensed to use the Software or Documentation We us and our means C Command Software LLC We hereby grant you a nonexclusive license to use one copy of the Software on any single computer or on multiple computers only used by a single person The Software is in use on a computer when it is loaded into temporary memory RAM or installed into the permanent memory of a computer for example a hard disk o
183. ges in different colors or with a numeric score to indicate their level of spamminess Apple Mail Entourage MailMate Mailsmith Outlook PowerMail 2 2 Installing SpamSieve 1 If you have not already done so go to the SpamSieve Web site and click the Download Free Trial button The trial and full version of SpamSieve are the same file After it finishes downloading double click the SpamSieve 2 9 23 dmg file 2 Drag the SpamSieve icon onto the Applications folder 3 Double click the Applications folder to open it 4 Double click the SpamSieve icon to launch it 27http c command com spamsieve 12 5 h E Safari SpamSieve Stickies ES a Ea System TextEdit Time Machine Utilities Preferences 5 Eject the SpamSieve 2 9 23 icon DEVICES O SpamSieve O It is important that SpamSieve be installed directly in the Applications folder not in another folder or in a subfolder because otherwise your mail program might not be able to find it Next you must follow the instructions in the Using SpamSieve section in order to set up your mail program to use SpamSieve 2 3 Updating From a Previous Version There are two ways to update to the latest version of SpamSieve Automatic Updating 1 Launch your old version of SpamSieve 2 Normally SpamSieve will automatically check for updates and detect that a new version is available If you had turned that feature off a Choose Software Update f
184. ges like this if it s properly configured and trained Otherwise there is some other problem with PowerMail or SpamSieve Please contact technical support and explain what happened when you followed these instructions 7 1 12 Checking the Thunderbird Setup The Setting Up Thunderbird section describes how to set up Thunderbird to filter your mail using Spam Sieve 1 Make sure that Do not mark mail as junk if the sender is in is not checked 2 Make sure that Trust junk mail headers set by is not checked To test that the setup works 1 When you receive a new message note its subject 2 Click on SpamSieve s icon in the Dock 3 Choose Open Log from the SpamSieve menu The setup is correct if there s a log entry near the bottom that says Predicted Good or Predicted Spam and shows the subject for the new message 141 If you don t see the expected log entries for new messages please contact technical suppor and explain what happened when you followed these instructions 7 1 13 Checking the Training SpamSieve is nearly 100 accurate but only when properly trained Here s how you can check the training 1 Choose Show Statistics from the Filter menu Does the Corpus section show at least 100 spam messages and 100 good messages If not follow the instructions in the Do an Initial Training section 2 If SpamSieve has misclassified any messages it needs to know this or its accuracy will decline This is d
185. h localization and improved the other localizations Various documentation improvements including Described how to place Entourage messages in different mailboxes based on how spammy they are Added section describing how to redirect non spam Apple Mail messages to another account e g to filter the mail that you receive on your Blackberry 2 3 2 August 8 2005 Made various improvements to increase SpamSieve s accuracy Added Quit when mail client quits option Sped up filtering when Growl notifications are enabled Improved the text layout of the Growl notifications Re installing or updating Eudora could have the effect of re enabling Eudora s built in junk plug ins This could reduce the filtering accuracy and cause unexpected behavior as multiple plug ins acted on the same messages Now if SpamSieve detects that its Eudora plug in is installed it will automatically disable any other Eudora junk plug ins When you reset the corpus SpamSieve automatically creates a dated backup so that it s possible to revert if need be The pop up menu for selecting the uncertainty threshold now supports scores as high as 98 This makes it possible to designate all non blocklisted spam messages as uncertain The S and G indicators are now only shown in the Dock icon after manual training not auto training The log is now UTF 8 rather than ASCII so it should be much more readable for people using localized versions of SpamS
186. he Dock menu now bring SpamSieve to the front The progress window when exporting the corpus sometimes lagged a bit before closing auto matically Fixed bug where SpamSieve would get confused if you entered the empty string as a date 2 1 4 April 15 2004 e Fixed bug where SpamSieve could crash when installing the Eudora plug in if you were using Eudora 6 0 x e Fixed regression where SpamSieve couldn t process certain messages resulting in a script error and reduced accuracy e Added French localization e Updated AOL instructions since AOL now supports IMAP 2 1 3 April 13 2004 e Added menu commands for installing the Apple Mail plug in and scripts the Eudora plug in and the Entourage scripts These items are now stored inside the SpamSieve application package e Scripts for the other applications are now stored inside the application bundle not at the root of the disk image The Show Other Scripts menu command will reveal them in the Finder 266nttp lists c command com listinfo cgi spamsieve talk c command com P 81 sp 210 e Apple Mail and Eudora users should update their plug ins using the commands in the SpamSieve menu e Added the score script command which returns an integer between 0 and 100 indicating how spammy the message is 50 and higher mean spam e The Predicted lines in SpamSieve s log now show the scores of the messages e Can now use Eudora s full 0 to 100 junk score range if you chec
187. he inbox even though your SpamSieve rule is set to move them to the Spam mailbox e You try to delete messages but they come back or Mail reports an error e Mail is very slow at browsing or searching messages First try a quick rebuild Select the problem mailbox go to the Mailbox menu and choose Rebuild If this doesn t solve the problem try a complete rebuild 1 Quit Mail 2 Locate the Envelope Index file e On Mac OS X 10 11 the file is stored at Users lt username gt Library Mail V3 MailData Envelope Index See the How can I open the Library folder section Then open the Mail folder then V3 then MailData to find the Envelope Index file Make sure that you also delete Envelope Index shm and Envelope Index wal if they exist e On Mac OS X 10 7 through 10 10 the file is stored at Users lt username gt Library Mail V2 MailData Envelope Index See the How can I open the Library folder section Then open the Mail folder then V2 then MailData to find the Envelope Index file Make sure that you also delete Envelope Index shm and Envelope Index wal if they exist e On Mac OS X 10 6 the file is stored at Users lt username gt Library Mail Envelope Index See the How can I open the Library folder section Then open the Mail folder to find the Envelope Index file 3 Once you ve found the file drag it to the trash Note Rebuilding the index database is perfectly safe Even though it seems that you are dele
188. he manual Made various changes to improve SpamSieve s filtering accuracy SpamSieve now understands that Cicloud com me com and Cmac com are equivalent so it s better at finding the proper inbox in Apple Mail when you train a message as good For non Apple IMAP and POP mail accounts you can define aliases manually as before Go to the Accounts tab of Mail s preferences and enter all the addresses separated by commas in the Email Address field Customers have reported that Sync Services does not work reliably on Mac OS X 10 8 Mountain Lion Thus rather than having Outlook use Sync Services to sync its contacts with the system address book SpamSieve now offers a feature to load the Outlook address book directly This ensures that SpamSieve doesn t mark messages from people in your address book as spam Outlook users are encouraged to make sure that Use Entourage Outlook address book is checked in SpamSieve s preferences and to click the Load button For more information see the Use Entourage Outlook address book section of the manual SpamSieve is now better able to handle invalid data received from a mail program When Using a Spam Mailbox on the Server SpamSieve is better at handling errors from Mail that could cause a trained spam message to go to the local spam mailbox instead Training a message as good in Apple Mail now removes any flags in case you were using Spam Message Colors in Apple Mail Added How should 1 c
189. hecking the Training section has more information about this e Also make sure that you do not have other rules besides SpamSieve in your mail program that move messages to the spam mailbox or trash Such rules can prevent you from properly training SpamSieve 123 124 x spamsieve default k ParseImages amp v YES x spamsieve default k ParseImages amp v NO 125 x spamsieve default k QuitMailWhenMacSleeps amp v YES 126 x spamsieve default k QuitMailWhenMacSleeps amp v NO 101 6 You can contact technical support at spamsieveQ c command com 127 Before sending your mes sage please read the What information should I include when I report a problem section Make sure that you ve included all of the general information as well as the items requested in the If you have spam messages in your inbox section 7 1 1 Checking the Apple Mail Setup 1 If you do not see the SpamSieve training commands in Mail s Message menu choose Install Apple Mail Plug In from the SpamSieve menu There is more information about this in the Why don t I see the SpamSieve commands in Apple Mail s Message menu section 2 Go to the Junk pane of Mail s Preferences window and make sure that Enable junk mail filtering is unchecked 3 Go to the Rules pane of Mail s Preferences window and make sure that you have a rule like 4 the one shown in the Setting Up Apple Mail section a Make sure there is a check mark next to the SpamSieve rul
190. hen SpamSieve makes a mistake 218 When filtering a message SpamSieve can optionally check whether the message is in the corpus If 1t is SpamSieve looks up the answer rather than trying to predict One use of this feature is that if SpamSieve makes a mistake you can Add Spam and then Label Move If Spam and be sure that the message will be labeled moved Keeps a log of additions to the corpus filtering results and errors Mailsmith If SpamSieve thinks a message is spam it sets the deleted property of the message to true otherwise it sets the flagged property of the message to true Therefore if SpamSieve has classified the message then exactly one of the properties will be true and if it hasn t they ll both be false Normally neither of these message properties is used by Mailsmith itself Entourage and PowerMail If you tell SpamSieve to move spam messages to a spam folder and the spam folder doesn t exist the script will create the spam folder for you When you add spam messages to the corpus can optionally move them to a Spam folder Added status indicators in the Dock icon like Norton DiskLight The spam probability of unknown words is now 0 4 instead of 0 2 The Corpus window uses less memory and sorts much faster Accuracy tracking is faster and uses less memory and disk space Fixed bug where accuracy tracking didn t work for some Mailsmith messages with multiple parts Improved the manual s instructions for e mai
191. his Menu SpamSieve Change Settings SpamSieve Set Category SpamSieve Train as Good 3G SpamSieve Train as 5pam 65 4 Choose Rules from Outlook s Tools menu Click on the source list item corresponding to the type of account you have e g POP IMAP or Exchange If you have more than one kind of account you will need to repeat the following steps for each account type a If you had previously used SpamSieve with Microsoft Entourage delete any SpamSieve rules that Outlook brought over from your Entourage setup b Click the button Change the name of the rule to SpamSieve Set Category c For a POP account the If should say All messages For an IMAP account or Exchange it should say Folder INBOX lt Account Name gt Note You will need to create one Set Category rule per IMAP or Exchange account d Click on the empty space between Change status and Not junk E mail Click Remove Action to delete the Change status action Change status HE h Not junk E mail E e Click on the menu that says Set category and select Run AppleScript Then click the Script button and Select the SpamSieve Set Category scpt file This file is stored in the Outlook Script Menu Items folder which is probably inside the Microsoft User Data folder inside your Documents folder 161 Select the script to run GD EE Goons BA O gt DEVICES About Stacks pdf 5 8 10 RED Y i Microsoft User Data 8 6 10 Y PL
192. hments by default is checked POP accounts do not have the Server sync section so you can skip this step for them Click on the Advanced icon at the top of the window and make sure that Use SpamSieve is checked Now proceed to the Do an Initial Training section e To train SpamSieve with spam messages select the messages Control click and choose SpamSieve Train as Spam from the contextual menu Do not use the Mark as Spam command e To train SpamSieve with good messages select the messages Control click and choose SpamSleve Train as Good from the contextual menu Do not use the Mark as Not Spam command SpamSieve will process new mail automatically Messages that it thinks are spam will be moved to the Junk or Spam folder Airmail will automatically launch SpamSieve when there are new messages that need to be filtered or when you train messages as spam or as good Keyboard Shortcuts If you prefer not to use the menu commands for training SpamSieve you can set up keyboard shortcuts as follows 6 7 Open System Preferences Click on the Keyboard icon Click on the Shortcuts or Keyboard Shortcuts on older versions of Mac OS X tab Select App Shortcuts or Application Shortcuts on older versions of Mac OS X Click the button For Application select Airmail 2 or Airmail For the Menu Title enter Spam Sieve Train as Bad 36http support airmailapp com support solutions articles 171594 enabling spam
193. iCloud to sync your Mail rules between multiple Macs make sure that both the SpamSieve and Remote Training rules are unchecked on all the Macs except for the drone 7 If desired you can set up keyboard shortcuts on any non drone Macs for moving messages into the Train mailboxes In Mail s View menu choose Show Favorites Bar Then drag the TrainGood and TrainSpam mailboxes to the favorites bar There will then be keyboard shortcuts for these messages in the Mailbox gt Move to Favorite Mailbox submenu 63http c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail remote training 48 4 4 2 Setting Up a MailMate Drone This section is a continuation of the Setting Up a Spam Filtering Drone instructions for people using Mail Mate 1 7 1 or later 1 In MailMate s Preferences window click on the General tab and make sure that next to Experimental 2 0 Features the Enable box is checked 2 In MailMate s Preferences window click on the Security tab and make sure that next to SpamSieve the Enable box is checked 3 For each TrainGood mailbox select the mailbox a Go to the Mailbox menu and choose Edit Mailbox b Click on the Rules tab of the TrainGood window c Click the button at the bottom of the window d e In the Description enter Remote Good Training At the bottom of the window create two actions e Set Tag Not Junk e Move to Mailbox Inbox 4 For each TrainSpam mailbox select the mailbox a Go to the M
194. ieve More errors are now logged Better at finding sound files that are built into Mailsmith Worked around Tiger bug that would cause archived log files to not decompress automatically when opened Fixed regression where SpamSieve could crash if you tried to install the Entourage scripts when Entourage was not installed 202 Fixed bug in Apple Mail s Train as Good where it didn t always move messages out of the Spam mailbox if there were lots of recipients Fixed Entourage Train Good script to not make a new Uncertain Junk category when one already exists but Entourage says that it doesn t Worked around AppleScript error that could occur when running Entourage scripts The regex code is more bulletproof in the face of rare OS errors Added better heuristic for determining which files SpamSieve can import addresses from This should prevent some rare crashes Updated the Habeas link in the Preferences window The history database is more robust on Tiger The Purchase window now makes it more clear when the serial number has been successfully entered Merged the Web Purchase and Instant Purchase buttons Adjusted the way the remaining demo time is displayed as it led many people to believe that they had less than a month of total trial time Improved training tips and the manual Added French translation of manual Updated Vietnamese manual Fixed regression where the Italian and Vietnamese manuals were inaccessibl
195. ieve Move If Spam 38M SpamSieve Train Good G SpamSieve Train Spam ES 4 Choose Rules from Entourage s Tools menu Click on the tab corresponding to the type of account you have e g POP IMAP or Exchange Tf you have more than one kind of account you will need to repeat steps 4 6 for each account type Click the New button Change the name of the rule to SpamSieve Move If Spam Click on the empty space between Change status and Not junk E mail Click Remove Action to delete the Change status action y Not junk E mail Click on the menu that says Set category and select Run AppleScript Then click the Script button and Select the SpamSieve Move If SpamicmM file This file is stored in the Entourage Script Menu Items folder which is probably inside the Microsoft User Data folder inside your Documents folder 147 Select the script to run bete search Date Modified v B Microsoft User Data 9 23 08 gt PLACES v LJ Entourage Script Menu Items Today 7 Create Event from Message cE 12 3 07 Create Note from Message cN 12 3 07 Create Task from Message cT 12 3 07 gt DEVICES gt MEDIA SpamSieve Change Settings 3 1 07 F SpamSieve Move If SpamicmM j 7 15 08 2 SpamSieve Train Good cmG 1 9 08 2 SpamSieve Train Spam cmS 10 31 08 gt 9 Entourage Sound Sets 12 12 06 gt amp Entourage Temp 9 15 08 gt 0 Excel Script Menu Items 3 12 08 gt Identities 12 12 06
196. if the sender is in an address book is checked Eudora automatically adds your recipients to its History List which is considered to be part of the address book Mailsmith Create a rule that uses this AppleScript to add your sent messages recipients to SpamSieve s whitelist Outlook Create an outgoing rule that uses this AppleScript to add your messages recipients to SpamSieve s whitelist 55http c command com scripts spamsieve entourage whitelist recipients 56http c command com scripts spamsieve mailsmith whitelist recipients 5Thttp c command com scripts spamsieve outlook whitelist recipients 43 Postbox Select Do not mark mail as junk if the sender is in Collected Addresses in Postbox s Accounts preferences PowerMail Create an outgoing filter that uses this AppleScript to add your messages recipients to SpamSieve s whitelist Thunderbird Select Do not mark mail as junk if the sender is in Collected Addresses in Thunderbird s Account Settings window For Apple Mail Eudora Postbox and Thunderbird the above settings will completely hide these messages from SpamSieve Thus 1 You might not want to do this if you regularly receive spam messages that are forged so as to appear as though they were sent from one of your previous correspondents SpamSieve won t see the messages so it will have no chance of catching them 2 SpamSieve will not be able to auto train itself with these messa
197. if you check Mail isn t junk if the sender is in an address book then Eudora will not pass those messages along to SpamSieve it will assume that they are good Note that Eudora always considers your address to be in its address book even though it may not be explicitly listed there Thus if you receive spam that is forged so that it appears to be sent from your own address you must uncheck Mail isn t junk if the sender is in an address book in order for SpamSieve to catch it To still have SpamSieve whitelist your address book you can export the Eudora address book to vCard and then import it into the Mac OS X address book or use SpamSieve s Import Addresses command to import the Eudora Nicknames file The Junk Extras area of Eudora s preferences lets you control some additional settings such as whether junk messages are removed from the mail server 8 5 Setting Up Eudora 5 2 Using SpamSieve with Eudora 6 is highly recommended However SpamSieve can also work with Eudora 5 2 and some Eudora 6 users may prefer the configuration described here because it is more customizable 1 Choose Show Other Scripts from SpamSieve s SpamSieve menu Move the SpamSieve Eudora Helper file in the For Eudora 5 2 Users folder to the Applications folder of your hard disk You will need to launch this applet the first time you use SpamSieve with Eudora Also in the For Eudora 5 2 Users folder is the Uninstall Eudora Helper file Run this ap
198. il Programs The following mail programs are discontinued but they can still be used with SpamSieve 8 1 Setting Up Emailer 1 Choose Show Other Scripts from SpamSieve s SpamSieve menu Copy the files from the For Emailer Users folder into Emailer s AppleScripts folder O O El Claris Emailer Files YO 3 AppleScripts pa About the AppleScript Menu O SpamSieve Color if Spam 3 SpamSieve Move If Spam SpamSieve Train Good de SpamSieve Train Spam You may need to quit and re launch Emailer in order for it to notice that you have installed the SpamSieve AppleScripts 176 http c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail move if spam 145 2 If you want SpamSieve to color messages that it thinks are spam set up a mail action in Emailer that looks like this using the Define Actions button to set the Run the AppleScript action Mail Action Entry Spamsieve Color spam Hail action name SparBiene Color Spard Criteria m C CA Run the Applecoript pri Color i Span Ceding Andie T stop mad actions if criteria are mat 3 If instead you want SpamSieve to move suspected spam messages to a Spam folder that it creates automatically set up a mail action in Emailer that looks like this Mail Action Entry Spamsieve Move spam Hail action name Spambiere Hire Span Criteria Field All mail i Stop man actions if criteria are rut
199. iles can more easily cause harm If you are running anti virus software it is normal for it to find viruses in your Spam mailbox and in SpamSieve s False Negatives folder if you ve enabled the Save false negatives to disk preference You can safely ignore these warnings because the viruses are embedded in the e mail messages and are inert It s also safe to delete the false negative files they are only used when troubleshooting SpamSieve 7 9 Does SpamSieve stop Web bugs A Web bug is a tracking image in an HTML formatted e mail message The image is referenced on a remote server rather than included as an attachment to the message When a mail client displays the message it loads the image from the remote server When the server receives the request for the image data 152http en wikipedia org wiki Web_bug 126 it knows that the e mail has been read and it can record the address of the computer that requested the image Additionally the image s URL may include tracking information such as your e mail address so the server can tell who read the e mail Some legitimate mailing list providers use Web bugs to track how many of their messages were read when they were read and where approximately the recipients are Spammers use Web bugs to track who is reading their messages This lets them tell which e mail addresses are valid as well as which variants of their message content get through spam filters An e mail addres
200. ing the other plug ins e You can report the problem to us and to the other plug in developer so that we can find a way for the plug ins to work better together 7 13 12 What can I do if Apple Mail is crashing Under normal circumstances Apple Mail does not crash whether or not you are using SpamSieve If you find that Mail is crashing here are some things that you can do 1 First please send us a crash report so that we can look into the cause Note that if you are seeing a spinning beachball cursor rather than a crash report window Mail is probably hanging rather than crashing In that case you should instead record a sample log of Mail during the hang 2 Often it helps just to restart your Mac 3 Make sure that any other Mail plug ins are updated to their latest versions If that doesn t help see whether disabling the other plug ins stops the crashes 4 The most common Mail crash that we see is due to a bug in Mail s own junk mail filter SpamSieve normally tells Mail which messages it thinks are junk in order to protect you from Web bugs Resetting Mail s junk database may fix the problem You can also tell SpamSieve not to mark the messages as junk if analyzing the spam messages is causing Mail s filter to crash To do this click the link for AppleMailPlugInSetIsJunk in the Esoteric Preferences 5 In Mac OS X 10 10 there is an Apple Mail bug that can cause crashes if you are using an Exchange account and have
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202. ion bug in Mac OS X 10 10 3 e SpamSieve will no longer repeatedly try to fix a file s owner if ownership is ignored on the volume e Fixed a bug where SpamSieve could report an internal error if it received an Apple event while in the process of quitting e Fixed a bug that could cause an internal error writing to SpamSieve s log file when the application was quitting e Fixed a regression where the Outlook 14 installer didn t properly migrate installed script files e Fixed a bug abbreviating long rules in the log e Date formatters now use the POSIX local where appropriate 2 9 19 January 27 2015 Works with Apple Mail under Mac OS X 10 10 2 It s easiest if you update to SpamSieve 2 9 19 before updating to Mac OS X 10 10 2 In any case if you don t see the SpamSieve commands in Apple Mail s Message menu be sure to choose Install Apple Mail Plug In from the SpamSieve menu Otherwise with the SpamSieve plug in not installed Mail will move good messages to the spam mailbox without consulting SpamSieve To make future OS updates smoother You can wait to update Mac OS X until a new version of SpamSieve has been released The latest compatibility information is always available at the top of the SpamSieve Support page To prevent Mac OS X from updating itself without asking you go to the App Store section of System Preferences and make sure that Install OS X updates is unchecked You can sign up to receive the public
203. ipt Editor program in the AppleScript folder of your Applications folder The top of the script contains the following lines property moveToSpamFolder true moves spams to a Spam mailbox property markSpamMessages true marks spams with red x property markSpamMessagesRead false marks spams as already read property labelSpamMessages false colors spam messages brown property markGoodMessages true marks good messages with carets property labelGoodMessages false colors good messages green property removeSpamMessagesFromServer false You can change a false to true or a true to false to set the options the way you want For instance to have SpamSieve not move spam messages into a separate mailbox change the true in the first line to false When you are finished making changes choose Save in Script Editor s File menu close the window and then re launch the SpamSieve Eudora Helper Script Editor 2 0 cannot edit the SpamSieve Eudora Helper applet To customize the applet use Script Editor 1 9 or a third party script editor Eudora Limitations The following limitations are due to problems with Eudora s notification interface Because of these limitations it is recommended that you use Eudora 6 and the SpamSieve Eudora Plug In The plug in avoids these limitations e Eudora gives messages to SpamSieve after all the other filters have run It is not possible to change this ordering e SpamSieve cannot fi
204. ist Rules The number of rules on SpamSieve s blocklist Whitelist Rules The number of rules on SpamSieve s whitelist 74 009 Statistics Filtered Mail 5 121 Good Messages 28 990 Spam Messages 85 535 Spam Messages Per Day SpamSieve Accuracy 0 False Positives 34 False Negatives 99 9 Correct Corpus 22 414 Good Messages 55 272 Spam Messages 71 2 755 076 Total Words Rules 13 163 Blocklist Rules 46 236 Whitelist Rules Showing Statistics Since 12 1 14 12 00 PM Set Date Copy Stats You can copy all the statistics to the clipboard using the Copy command in the Edit menu or by clicking 75 the Copy Stats button Normally SpamSieve shows statistics for all the messages that it processed since it was installed Because the accuracy and the number of messages you receive change with time you may wish to only see recent statistics Click the Set Date button at the bottom of the window to control which old statistics are hidden from view You can edit the date and time shown in the sheet or enter an entirely new date SpamSieve will also accept dates specified in natural language such as last Sunday at dinner or today The Now button enters the current date and time If you ve chosen a suitable date and the Filtered Messages section shows zero filtered messages that means that your mail program did not ask SpamSieve to filter any incoming messages You should check to make sure that the mail program
205. k the appropriate box in the Advanced preferences e Improved parsing of messages with 8 bit transfer data e Faster at processing messages e Added support for Outlook Express 5 e Worked around OS bug that could cause SpamSieve to come to the front each time a message was processed in Apple Mail or Eudora usually if an X11 application was frontmost e Fixed bug where errors encountered while processing messages were not reported in the log e Worked around Cocoa problem where certain notification sounds wouldn t play e Made the Purchase window easier to understand and added a button for looking up lost serial numbers e Trims the text in the serial number field so people don t accidentally paste the number in twice e Software updater is better at checking whether the computer can connect to the Internet e SpamSieve now tries to parse Eudora messages according to RFC822 even though this will some times fail as many Eudora messages are not RFC822 compliant e Adjusted the list of headers that SpamSieve ignores e Added keyboard shortcuts for Apple Mail scripts e Improved the training tips e Updated to SQLite 2 8 13 e Updated to eSellerate SDK 3 5 5 e The Send Report button in the crash reporter is no longer a default button so there s no longer confusion about entering returns in the comment field e No longer prints fragments of spam messages to the console when it gets confused e Replaced the copy of the manual ou
206. l continuous bouncing PowerMate flashing are no longer triggered when SpamSieve or the mail program is already frontmost Thus you don t have to deactivate the mail program and then activate it again to dismiss the notification e Apple Mail Integration Sets the colors of spam messages to reflect how spammy they are making it easier to skim the Spam mailbox for false positives Protects against Web bugs by telling Mail not to load the images from messages that are classified as spam The Add Good script is better at moving messages from the Spam folder back to the correct inbox and it will mark them as unread when it does so The Add Good and Add Spam now work with Mac OS X 10 3 5 The plug in will look for SpamSieve in the Applications folder even if Launch Services is confused and says it can t find it e Entourage Integration The Exclude my addresses switch now also applies to the Entourage address book to reduce the chances of a forged spam getting through Added new scripting verb add entourage addresses This will allow you to keep the En tourage addresses in sync by using an Entourage shutdown schedule 262 Can automatically add the recipients of the messages you send to the whitelist Sanity checks addresses that are loaded from Entourage For instance if both the name and the address were entered in Entourage s address field SpamSieve will now extract just the address rather than taking Entourage s word for
207. l client integration Compiled with GCC 3 for greater speed Uses the latest version of the eSellerate SDK which eliminates a crash at startup under certain circumstances No longer shows the Upgrading From 1 0 message when starting with a blank corpus 1 1 September 19 2002 E Mail Client Integration Added support for PowerMail Added instructions and an AppleScript for making Mailsmith download and filter mail faster Added an AppleScript for Entourage that moves spam into a Junk folder Performance Launches about 60 faster than 1 0 You can now prune the corpus to remove words that are taking up memory without con tributing to spam recognition This can also dramatically decrease SpamSieve s launch time Recalculating spam probabilities is about 10 faster and uses less memory Quitting is faster because SpamSieve now writes corpus changes to disk during idle time Saving the corpus is slightly faster Displays statistics about the number of messages filtered SpamSieve s accuracy and the types of words in the corpus SpamAssassin s X Spam Status headers are now treated as single words This means that if SpamAssassin is running on your mail server SpamSieve will learn to respect or ignore its judgment Does a better job of ignoring e mail attachments thus reducing corpus bloat Installs the eSellerate Engine if it s not present thus enabling Instant Registration for mo
208. l its Apple Mail plug in if Mail s folder had been redirected using an alias Fixed a bug where SpamSieve would sometimes quit when coming out of trial mode Fixed a bug where sometimes the Hits column in a rules window couldn t be resized Worked around an OS bug that could cause an internal error when reporting a corpus error Made various modernizations to SpamSieve s code and interface files The Apple Mail plug in now shows up with the proper name in Mail Plugin Manager Updated the disk image layout 2 8 2 May 25 2010 Improved compatibility with pre release versions of Mac OS X Added Dutch Italian and Swedish localizations Made various code improvements and modernizations SpamSieve is better able to recover from certain types of damaged corpus files Updated the Setting Up Eudora section of the manual Improved the layout of the Software Update window Adjusted the packaging of the disk image and the installation instructions Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when parsing messages with an invalid Date header Fixed a regression where SpamSieve would sometimes bring up an alert sheet to report that you already had the latest version 245nttp www microsoft com mac office2011features office2011 mspx 246http www postbox inc com 247nttp www infinitydatasystems com mailforge 248http github com aaronharnly Mail Plugin Manager 191 e Fixed a crash in the software updater 2 8 1 March 24 2010
209. lable on all Macs 3 Create two additional mailboxes in each mail account TrainGood and TrainSpam Note If you don t mind or in fact prefer having all of your spam go to one account s Spam mailbox you can instead create a single pair of training mailboxes in that account However this may make it more cumbersome to move messages into the training mailboxes e g from iOS or Webmail 4 Continue following the instructions below for Apple Mail MailMate or Outlook 4 4 1 Setting Up an Apple Mail Drone This section is a continuation of the Setting Up a Spam Filtering Drone instructions for people using Apple Mail 1 If you have a single mail account follow the normal SpamSieve setup procedure in the Setting Up Apple Mail section with one change in Step 2 create the new Spam mailbox in your server account instead of in On My Mac You re now done with this step 62http support apple com kb PH4012 viewlocale en US amp locale en_US 47 Note If you get an error that there is already a Spam mailbox in the server account but you don t see such a mailbox it may be that Mail is displaying it as the special Junk mailbox Create a mailbox called Junk on the server the select it and choose Mailbox gt Use This Mailbox As gt Junk Mailbox The you should be able to see the Spam mailbox If you have multiple mail accounts e Create a Spam mailbox in each account e Instead of creating one SpamSieve rule create one per
210. le to select the trash in Step 1 so that incoming spam messages go directly to the trash Some people like this because Mail has a setting Preferences gt Accounts gt Mailbox Behaviors to automatically delete old messages from the trash However if you do this make sure that you periodically check to make sure there are no good messages in the trash Not only would you lose such messages if you don t correct all the mistakes but SpamSieve would also incorrectly learn that they are spam leading to more mistakes in the future Example 3 Putting Spam in the Junk Mailbox Please see the Automatically Deleting Old Spam Messages section 4 6 7 Using a Spam Mailbox on the Server Normally the Spam mailbox is kept on your Mac as this is faster and doesn t fill up your server account with spam If you prefer to keep the spam on your mail server so that it s available on all your devices you can 1 Go to Mail s Mailbox menu and choose New Mailbox Use the Location pop up menu to select your IMAP or Exchange server and enter Spam in the Name field Click OK If you are using Gmail there is already a Spam mailbox on the server You can use this one instead of creating a new mailbox To do this you will need to enter Gmail as the IMAP Path Prefix in the Advanced section of Mail s Accounts preferences This will make the Spam mailbox appear at the top level of the account in Mail s mailbox list 2 Open Mail s preferences and find the
211. lection AppleScript property which can be used to get the selected token infos in the corpus or the selected rules in the whitelist or blocklist window One use of this is demonstrated in a script that adds the addresses of the selected whitelist rules to the Address Book Added AppleScript properties and commands to access SpamSieve s windows and log One use of this is demonstrated in a script that lets you open SpamSieve s windows if its Dock icon is hidden and thus the menu bar is inaccessible e Notification Added option to control whether Growl notifications contain excerpts of the message body The new message count in SpamSieve s Dock icon is now auto positioned Fixed regression where dragging the slider to adjust the size of the number in the Dock icon didn t temporarily show the number so that you could preview the results e Apple Mail Integration Improved accuracy due to better decoding of Apple Mail messages The commands for training SpamSieve from Apple Mail are now in Mail s Message menu rather than in the Scripts menu This lets you access those commands in the same way on 10 2 through 10 4 and you don t have to worry about changing the scripts around if you boot into a different version of the OS The Apple Mail plug in is faster at processing messages If the Apple Mail plug in is installed but disabled for some reason e g a location switch or OS re install SpamSieve will automatically re enable it take
212. led This will enable future such spam messages to be caught If you later get a legitimate message from your own address and tell SpamSieve that it s good the whitelist rule will remain disabled so SpamSieve will still be able to catch that spam If you had previously deleted the rule instead of disabling it telling SpamSieve that the message was good would create a new enabled whitelist rule which would prevent those spam messages from being caught Blocklisting Domains and Countries You can tell SpamSieve to classify every message from a particular domain as spam For example to block every message from Spammy Company open the Blocklist window click the button and create a rule that says From address Ends With spammycompany com You can also create rules for particular countries For example to block every message from an e mail address in Nigeria create a rule that says From address Ends With ng Blocking Messages to Invalid Addresses If you have your own domain name it s best to configure the server not to have a catch all address because that would lead to your receiving spam messages send to addresses that are not even valid SpamSieve could filter out those spams but it s better if you can avoid downloading them and cluttering your spam mailbox in the first place http en wikipedia org wiki Catch a11 79 If you cannot configure your server in that way you can use the Matches Regex match style to crea
213. legitimate senders do not try to obscure their messages This does not affect messages encrypted with PGP or unencoded HTML messages 6 1 10 Use Bayesian classifier This enables SpamSieve s main spam detector which uses the corpus and word probabilities to identify spam messages If you uncheck Use Bayesian classifier SpamSieve will stop examining the full contents of the incoming messages so this should only be done for testing purposes 6 2 Notification All e mail programs can notify you when you receive new messages but some will also notify you even when all the new messages are spam If your e mail program is not savvy in this way you can turn off its notification and let SpamSieve notify you only when there are new good messages 104nt tp www pgp com products desktop personal index html 90 ee Preferences Filters eiiileciea Training Advanced When good mail arrives Play sound Basso aiff Bounce Dock icon Keep bouncing Show number of new good messages in Dock Small Larg Flash PowerMate A spam message is uncertain if its score is between 50 and 74 Use Growl global notification system Include message bodies 9 6 2 1 Play sound This makes SpamSieve play a sound when new good messages are received as described in the Notification section To add a sound to the menu copy the sound file to the Sounds folder in your Library folder See the How can I open the Library fol
214. lows Word A word in the corpus Spam The number of times the word has occurred in spam messages 72 Good The number of times the word has occurred in good messages Total The total number of times the word has occurred Prob The probability that a message is spam given that it contains the word and in the absence of other evidence Last Used The date that the word was added to the corpus or the date that it last appeared in a received message whichever is later You can copy the selected rows to the clipboard or drag and drop them into another application With the window sorted by Word you can type the first few letters of a word to locate that word in the corpus Similarly you can sort by one of the other columns and type a number to locate the first word whose value for the sorted column matches the number you typed You can edit the spam and good counts associated with a word by double clicking on the number in the Spam or Good column Changing the numbers for important words can greatly affect SpamSieve s accuracy so you shouldn t make changes without good reason You can remove words that you don t want in the corpus by selecting them and pressing Delete 5 3 2 Reset Corpus This command removes all the words and messages from the corpus It does not change the whitelist or blocklist After resetting the corpus you can retrain SpamSieve from scratch and SpamSieve will let you use your
215. lter messages that are moved by other filters For instance if you have a filter that moves incoming messages from Steve Jobs to a separate mailbox SpamSieve will not mark any of those messages as spam even if a spammer pretends to be Jobs This limitation applies to both automatic filtering of incoming mail and manual filtering of selected messages 159 e Sometimes the wrong message is marked That is SpamSieve may decide that message A is spam and ask Eudora to mark it with a red X in rare circumstances Eudora will instead mark some other message B with the X You can tell if this has happened by comparing SpamSieve s log to the way the messages are marked in Eudora This problem seems to occur when the In mailbox is sorted e Sometimes SpamSieve never sees a message that should have been filtered You can tell if this has happened by the absence of that message in the log It may help to remove any notify user filter action that you have set up e Sometimes SpamSieve determines that a message is good or spam but Eudora does not mark it at all You can tell if this has happened by comparing SpamSieve s log to the way the messages are marked in Eudora e SpamSieve cannot add or filter messages that are stored in the Trash mailbox or in mailbox files outside the Mail Folder folder in the Eudora Folder Note that this includes all IMAP messages To access these messages first move them to a non trash mailbox file that i
216. ltering aoe n oee sru ece e ma a Re we ed ee 3 14 1 Converting Your Apple Mail Setup to IMAP 2 220 3 14 2 Recommended Mail Hosts o lt a en ccoo rasa ee ee eS 4 Customization A Rale Orderimg sca aes we ey ee we ee Re ee A ae ee ey ne 4 2 Whitelisting Previous Recipients e 4 3 Automatically Deleting Old Spam Messages e eee ee ee 4 4 Setting Up a Spam Filtering Drone lt ooomococcr csrss ee 44 Setting Up an Apple Mail Drone eee eie e ee ee a e 44 2 Setting Up a MailMate Drone ossa sa ee ee es 443 Settine Up an Outlook Drane se c oa sa doas sea PR a ee a 4 5 Customizing Using AppleScript o lt c c eoor a 0000 2 ee ee 4 6 Apple Mail Customization e s ba eama gae aama ee 4 6 1 Faster Apple Mail Training o occo o re a ee aa e e eee eee eee 4 6 2 Recommended Apple Mail Customizations Mac OS X 10 8 and Earlier 4 6 3 Change Settings Apple Mail o 4 6 4 Apple Mail Keyboard Shortcuts e 4 6 5 Spam Message Colors in Apple Mail o e e e 4 6 6 Changing the Name of the Spam Mailbox o o 46 7 Using a Spam Mailbox on the Server ok cesia ee a e Eag 4 6 8 Marking Incoming Spam Messages a 4 6 9 Separate Spam Mailboxes for Each Account 2 0 60 4 6 10 Redirecting Good Messages to Another Account o 61 4 6 11 Consolida
217. lug in but we can t rule out the possibility Apple Mail Compatibility UUIDs There are many Mail plug ins and Apple understandably cannot test all of them let alone their inter actions with each other Thus starting around Mac OS X 10 6 Apple adopted a policy where each plug in declares using UUIDs which versions of Mail it has been tested with If a plug in has not been tested with the version of Mail that you re using Mail will not load it The advantage to this system is that it makes Mail more reliable it will not load any untested code The disadvantage is that plug ins like SpamSieve s which make only a few hooks into very stable areas of Mail usually do not require any changes to work with the new version of Mail When Apple updates Mail we have to ship a new version of the plug in with the new UUID to prove that it was tested with that version customers have to update SpamSieve and its plug in but the new plug in has the exact same code as the old one aside from improvements unrelated to OS compatibility Nevertheless the UUID system does improve Mail s reliability and does not cause problems so long as customers are aware that they need to update SpamSieve and any other plug ins Timing of SpamSieve Update Availability Typically we ship an update to SpamSieve the same day that Apple updates Mac OS X Some customers have asked why SpamSieve updates do not become available until after Apple has shipped a Mac OS X upd
218. m Sieve ships with some blocklist rules pre configured to catch messages containing spammy attachments Rule Match Styles There are several different ways in which SpamSieve can compare the text in the message s header to the rule s text In all cases capitalization does not matter lowercase letters are considered the same as their uppercase counterparts Is Equal to The message matches the rule if its text is exactly the same as the rule s text This is the fastest style of matching If you leave the text blank the rule will match messages that have blank values for that header for example when there is an empty Subject header Some times messages especially spam ones omit headers To match an omitted header enter lt SpamSieve Unknown Subject gt lt SpamSieve Unknown From gt lt SpamSieve Unknown FromName gt or lt SpamSieve Unknown To gt depending on the header selected Contains The message matches the rule if the message text contains the rule text Starts with The message matches the rule if the message text begins with the rule text Ends with The message matches the rule if the message text ends with the rule text This is useful for matching domain names For example to match messages sent from Apple you could create an Ends with rule with text apple com Matches Regex This is like Contains except that the rule text is treated as a Perl compatible regular expression Regular expressions are a powerful way
219. m labels find the line for All Mail and uncheck Show in IMAP at the right 3 11 Do an Initial Training SpamSieve does not have distinct training and working modes As soon as you install it it is always learning from the messages it sees and always filtering out the spam that it finds Although you can start using SpamSieve immediately and just correct any mistakes that it makes it will do a better job of filtering if you use some of your old mail to do an initial training This simply means that you give it some examples of messages you consider to be spam and ones which you do not You do this by selecting some messages in your mail program and choosing a training command from the menu as described in the last step of the Setting Up section for your mail program SpamSieve collects information from the messages it s trained with into its corpus which it uses to predict whether subsequent messages are spam Don t worry it learns quickly How many messages you should train SpamSieve with depends on how many old messages you have and on how much time you want to put into the process 195 spam messages and 105 representative good ones are enough for most people to get very good accuracy but it s OK if you don t have that many The important points are Do not use more than 1 000 messages Using up to 1 000 recent messages in the initial training lets SpamSieve start out with a high level of accuracy In general th
220. m the Message menu The above is all you need to know about using SpamSieve with Entourage The Entourage Customization section explains some more advanced setup options 8 2 1 Entourage Customization The following customizations are optional but recommended 150 e Choose Entourage gt Preferences and click on Notification Turn off the sounds and new mail notifications and let SpamSieve notify you only when you receive new non spam messages e If you re using an IMAP account choose Tools gt Accounts Edit the account and click on the Options tab Make sure that Always download complete message bodies is checked and that Partially receive messages over is not checked Additional customizations are described below 8 2 2 Change Settings Entourage You can choose SpamSieve Change Settings from Entourage s Scripts menu to customize SpamSieve s behavior in Entourage The settings are e Which folder should spam messages be moved to when you use Train Spam e Should Train Spam mark the messages as read e When you use Train Good on a message in the spam folder should the message be moved back to the inbox e When you use Train Good on a message in the spam folder should the message be marked as unread e Which folder should incoming spam messages be moved to This only affects POP messages For IMAP and Exchange messages you would need to modify the SpamSieve Move Messages rule e
221. mSieve Train as Good Spam menu commands e If you re at one of the other computers you can train it remotely If a spam message gets through move it to the special TrainSpam mailbox to train the drone Periodically the drone will train the messages in this mailbox as spam and then move them to the spam mailbox If a good message ends up in the spam mailbox move it to the special TrainGood mailbox to train the drone Periodically the drone will train the messages in this mailbox as good and then move them to the inbox e The Apple Mail drone checks the Train mailboxes whenever a new message arrives in the inbox This can even work when your Mac is asleep if you ve enabled Power Nap The MailMate and Outlook drones check the Train mailboxes periodically according to a schedule that you set The Mac needs to be logged into your account although you can also use other accounts via Fast User Switching To set up the spam filtering drone 1 Make sure that all the computers are set to connect to your mail account via IMAP iCloud or Exchange 2 This optional step will hopefully keep SpamSieve running if there s a power failure while you re away from your drone Mac Open System Preferences In the Users amp Groups pane set Mail or Outlook as a login item for your account Under Login Options enable automatic login In the Energy Saver pane set it to Restart automatically after a power failure This option is not avai
222. mSieve Log log file Note In most cases you can ignore old dated log files whose names end with log bz2 Just send the SpamSieve Log log file 5 Drag the SpamSieve Log 1log file into the message window in your e mail program to attach it to your message The file should be included as an attachment enclosure not as text in the body of the message 7 2 3 Sending in Screenshots To help troubleshoot problems in your mail program please include screenshots of 1 Any errors that were reported if applicable 2 The message list in your mail program 3 The rule list in your mail program including both regular rules and mailing list manager rules if applicable 4 The individual SpamSieve rule s that you created in the mail program To take a screenshot hold down the Apple and Shift keys and press the number 4 Then use the mouse to select the area of the screen that you want to take a picture of This will create a file called Screen Shot lt date gt at lt time gt png on your desktop Pressing the keys again will create Screen Shot lt date gt at lt new time gt png etc You can drag these into the e mail window to attach them to your message If you re using Apple Mail be sure to set the Image Size pop up menu at the bottom of the message window to Actual Size 7 2 4 Sending in False Negative Files In the Advanced tab of SpamSieve s Preferences window make sure that Save false negatives to disk is checked When you tr
223. mSieve commands in Mail s Message menu and Mail will move good messages to the spam mailbox without consulting SpamSieve If you get into this situation quit Mail and then update SpamSieve The next time you launch SpamSieve it should detect that the plug in was disabled by an OS update and reinstall the plug in If this does not happen automatically you can choose Install Apple Mail Plug In from the SpamSieve menu On the other hand if you update SpamSieve before updating Mac OS X you will have the latest version of the plug in when you launch the new version of Mail so Mail will not disable it Using Pre Release Versions of Mac OS X If you are using a pre release version of Mac OS X it will likely have a different compatibility UUID than the shipping version of SpamSieve There are several ways to deal with this e You can temporarily disable SpamSieve by unchecking its rule in Mail s preferences This will prevent all your messages from going to the Spam mailbox but you will get spam messages in your inbox e You can use the Apple Mail Move If Spam script to filter your spam without needing to use an Apple Mail plug in e There are public betas of SpamSieve corresponding to public betas of Mac OS X You can click this link after installing SpamSieve to sign up to receive beta versions of SpamSieve via the built in Software Update command When updating to the beta please read all of the release notes You can click
224. machine 9http c command com scripts spamsieve whitelist to address book 71 5 3 The Filter Menu 5 3 1 Show Corpus The corpus is a collection of messages both spam and good with which you have trained SpamSieve SpamSieve s Bayesian classifier analyzes the contents of the messages and uses this information to predict whether future messages are spam or good The contents of the corpus are managed by SpamSieve therefore once you ve trained SpamSieve with a message deleting the message from your e mail program will not affect SpamSieve because the information from that message is stored in the corpus 000 Corpus Q ea 9 Delete Search 77 686 messages 2 755 076 words Word Spam Good Total Prob Last C Really 7 0 7 0 999 5 4 14 C wheat 7i 0 7 0 999 1 15 15 cadeau 7 0 7 0 999 12 18 14 earths 7 0 7 0 999 11 4 14 easy access 7 0 7 0 999 11 24 14 easyislam com 7 0 7 0 999 5 20 12 F Breakthrough 7 0 7 0 999 1 11 15 F cashcreator net 7 0 7 0 999 6 13 14 F easyislam com 7 0 7 0 999 5 20 12 F binaryteam Y 0 7 0 999 6 13 14 F Dorothea 7 0 7 0 999 7 31 14 F Dr Oz Breakthrough i 0 7 0 999 3 30 13 F medicalbreakthrough 7 0 7 0 999 3 28 13 The Show Corpus command opens the Corpus window so that you can examine the words that SpamSieve has found in your e mails You can click on the name of a column to sort by that column Click again on the column to reverse the sort direction The meanings of the columns are as fol
225. menu e To train SpamSieve with good messages select one or more of them and then choose Not Junk from Eudora s Message menu You can also use toolbar buttons for training SpamSieve The above is all you need to know about using SpamSieve with Eudora The Eudora Customization section explains some more advanced setup options Installing the Plug In Manually If the Install Eudora Plug In command doesn t work you can install the plug in manually as follows 1 Go to the SpamSieve menu and choose Show Other Scripts A Finder window will open 2 Choose Enclosing Folder from the Finder s Go menu Now you should see a window containing the file SpamSieve Eudora Plug In 3 Create the folder Users lt username gt Library Application Support Eudora PlugIns and drag the SpamSieve Eudora Plug In file into it 177http www eudora com email features spamwatch_mac_buttons html 157 8 4 1 Eudora Customization Eudora applies SpamSieve to all incoming messages The Junk Mail area of Eudora s preferences lets you customize how Eudora interacts with SpamSieve Note that the Junk Threshold slider will have no effect because SpamSieve always considers messages with scores of 50 or above to be spam Thus you should set Eudora s junk threshold to 50 and use the slider in the Advanced tab of SpamSieve s preferences if you need to adjust its sensitivity Other settings in the Junk Mail pane do affect SpamSieve For instance
226. menu section 2 Make sure that you ve disabled Mail s built in junk mail filter as described in Step 7 of the Setting Up Apple Mail section 3 Make sure that the only spam junk rule that you have in Mail s preferences is SpamSieve 4 The name of the SpamSieve rule in Apple Mail must begin with SpamSieve Make sure that there are no leading spaces in the name If the rule name does not begin with SpamSieve Mail will move every message to the Spam mailbox without even showing the messages to SpamSieve 5 To separate the good messages in the Spam mailbox from the spam ones drag all the un read messages to the inbox Then select them and choose Apply Rules from the Mes sage menu You can alternatively use the Apple Mail Move If Spam script with the moveGoodMessagesToInbox option Entourage 1 Make sure that you ve disabled Entourage s built in Junk Mail Filter 2 Make sure that the SpamSieve rule in Entourage are set up exactly as shown 3 Make sure that the only spam junk rules that you have in the Rules window are the two SpamSieve rules Outlook 2011 1 Make sure that you ve disabled Outlook s built in Junk Mail Filter 2 Make sure that the SpamSieve rule in Outlook are set up exactly as shown 3 Make sure that the only spam junk rules that you have in the Rules window are the SpamSieve rules 1M3http c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail move if spam 117 7 4 Why do good
227. mer obfuscation tricks and also which headers it should ignore Fixed bug introduced in 2 0 where the Bayesian engine didn t work if Mac OS X s default language was set to Japanese The SpamSieve Eudora Plug In is better at launching the SpamSieve application if it is not already running Loading Entourage addresses now adds to the addresses that were previously loaded rather than replacing them This makes it possible for Entourage users who have more than one Entourage identity to give SpamSieve the addresses from all their address books by loading once for each identity Hold down Option when clicking Load to get the old behavior of replacing the previously loaded addresses The sound pop up menu in the Preferences window now immediately notices when new sounds are installed previously it would only check when updating the rest of the preferences window You can now add a rule without a the Blocklist or Whitelist window being frontmost Spam Sieve will ask which type of rule to add Regex rules can now start with an options modifier such as 1 Copying rules to the clipboard now just copies the text to match typically an e mail address not all the columns To get all the columns you can print to PDF The Entourage Add Good script now finds localized inboxes rather than creating a folder called Inbox The Entourage Add Spam script can now remove spam messages from the server The Statistics window now shows percent
228. messages keep going to the Junk or Spam mailbox Normally as soon as you train one message as good SpamSieve will add the message s sender to its whitelist This means that SpamSieve will never classify future messages from that sender as spam Also by default SpamSieve will never classify messages from senders in your contacts as spam Nevertheless there a several reasons why such messages might keep ending up in the Junk or Spam mailbox 1 A junk filter on the server might be classifying the messages as spam This is especially likely to be the case if the messages are going to a different mailbox than the one that SpamSieve uses Please see the How should I configure the junk filter on my mail server section 2 Regardless of whether SpamSieve thinks a message is spam the message can still end up in the Spam mailbox if you have created other rules in your mail client that move messages to the Spam mailbox It is recommended that you disable or delete such rules Also make sure that your mail client s built in junk filter is off To help isolate what SpamSieve itself is doing you can create a separate spam mailbox called SpamSieve Spam and edit your mail program s SpamSieve rule to use that mailbox 3 Another computer that accesses your mail account may have rules or a spam filter that are moving the messages You can narrow down which one is responsible by temporarily setting each server filter or copy of SpamSieve to use a different
229. msreply t mobile co uk 0 4 18 11 From address Is Equal to oftayphatfOagentk 12 org 0 2 13 08 From name gt Is Equal to Robin Morrow 0 6 9 14 From name Is Equal to Gift Cards 10 6 13 08 From name Is Equal to consalve joaquim 0 12 6 10 From address Is Equal to fbmessage pp _ acebookmail com 2 1 8 07 From address Is Equal to Mailer Daemon xcore20 plus net 3 10 17 07 From address Is Equal to DoNotReply harmonsgrocery com 1 3 11 13 From name Is Equal to gt v 0 11 16 06 Body any text part Matches Regex lt BODY 2 gt gt s lt IMG 2 gt cid 4 gt gt 7 601 10 26 06 Body any text part 9 Matches Regex 9 s lt DIV A gt gt IV A gt gt lt DIV gt 1 124 10 18 06 Body any text part 9 Matches Regex 9 lt body bgcolor g alt src cid 1 742 The counterpart to the blocklist is the whitelist Creating Rules mailto spamsieve c command com http www barebones com products textwrangler 78 There is normally no need for you to manually create or delete blocklist rules because SpamSieve learns to recognize your spam automatically Thus it s OK if you receive spam from constantly changing addresses you don t have to worry about creating blocklist rules to match all of them If a lot of spam is in your inbox your first step should be to follow the instructions in Why is SpamSieve not catching my spam rather than to create blocklist rules that may not
230. much faster at undoing them Added option for the address book whitelist to only use other people s addresses so that spam messages from your own address don t match the whitelist Can mark all messages with Habeas headers as good Can mark all messages with some variant of ADV at the start of the subject as spam Can mark all base64 encoded HTML messages as spam New probability combiner increases accuracy Uses stop words to speed processing and reduce false negatives When filtering a message considers the number of occurrences of the words not just which words are present Can import messages from mbox files Can import the corpus from and export it to an XML property list the same format used by 1 x SpamSieve can now check for updated versions of itself Added crash reporter Added Dock menu containing frequently used commands 215 e The entries in the log are more detailed e The corpus now stores the date at which each word was last accessed e Fixed bug where storing statistics would fail on systems that didn t know about GMT e Fixed bug where SpamSieve could throw away long runs of HTML thinking they were attachments e Added button for opening the Mac OS X Address Book from inside SpamSieve e The Statistics window now has a contextual menu item for copying the displayed information e SpamSieve no longer wastes cycles updating the Statistics window after it s been closed e The Statistics window
231. n OS bug that could prevent SpamSieve from launching Worked around a bug in Apple Mail s iCloud rule syncing SpamSieve is better at moving trained messages when Outlook has lost track of the special Junk E mail folder Fixed a problem where Apple Mail couldn t communicate with SpamSieve when the file permis sions were incorrect Fixed a bug where SpamSieve couldn t load any addresses from Outlook if it reported an error while getting the e mail address of a contact Fixed a bug editing counts in the Corpus window due to suspected 64 bit OS bug Added more checks that the folders SpamSieve relies upon have the proper permissions Improved error reporting for Apple Mail Growl and more Improved handling of file permissions errors The Apple Mail drone script now sets the junk status Wrote a script that allows SpamSieve to filter messages in Apple Mail that have been orga 230http c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail server junk mailbox 231http www noodlesoft com hazel php 232http c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail sanebox 184 nized by SaneBox Improved the Japanese localization SpamSieve now requires Mac OS X 10 5 or later 2 9 6 December 19 2012 Worked around a bug in Mac OS X 10 8 2 that could cause spam operations in Postbox 4 to be very slow If you re using Postbox you can update your SpamSieve plug in by following steps 1 through 6 in the Setting Up Postbox section of t
232. n its icon in the Dock Go to the SpamSieve menu and choose Preferences Make sure that Use Entourage Outlook address book is checked and click the Load button then the Outlook button 3 Choose Install Outlook Scripts from the SpamSieve menu After you quit and re launch Outlook you should see four SpamSieve items in Outlook s Scripts menu 26 Window Help Py About This Menu Create Event from Message Create Note from Message Create Task from Message File Message by Category File Message by Sender Reveal Database in Finder SpamSieve Change Settings SpamSieve Set Category SpamSieve Train as Good SpamSieve Train as Spam HS Sample Automator Workflows gt E 4 Choose Rules from Outlook s Tools menu Click on the source list item under On My Computer corresponding to the type of account you that have e g POP IMAP or Exchange Ignore the Exchange Server section of the window if any ON MY COMPUTER ca Exchange la IMAP Ga POP Outgoing 5 If you have more than one kind of account you will need to repeat Steps 4 6 for each account type a If you had previously used SpamSieve with Microsoft Entourage delete any SpamSieve rules that Outlook brought over from your Entourage setup b Click the button Change the name of the rule to SpamSieve Set Category c For a POP account 1 Under When a new message arrives it should say All Messages For an IMAP or Exchange account
233. n the future No False Negatives Files If the False Negatives folder is empty even after enabling Save false negatives to disk and training SpamSieve with an uncaught spam message there is probably a setup problem in your mail program Use the Open Log command to see whether SpamSieve made a prediction for that message Anti Virus Alerts It is OK for your anti virus software to find viruses in the False Negatives folder For more information see the Does SpamSieve protect me from viruses section If you don t want to see anti virus alerts you can either exclude the False Negatives folder from scans or uncheck Save false negatives to disk and delete all the files in that folder 6 4 3 Use photo realistic Dock icon This option causes SpamSieve to use a more modern Dock icon which may or may not fit in better with your other Dock icons 6 4 4 Quit when mail client quits With this checked SpamSieve will quit itself when you quit an e mail program provided that there are no other mail programs running This prevents SpamSieve s icon from filling up your Dock when it s not actually being used 6 5 Esoteric Preferences You can set esoteric SpamSieve preferences by clicking the links on this page Unlike with regular preferences you must generally quit and re launch SpamSieve in order for an esoteric preference to take effect AddStandardRules Normally SpamSieve will create its standard set of whitelist and blocklist rule
234. n the rules file s e On Mac OS X 10 11 the files are stored at Users lt username gt Library Containers com apple mail Data Library Mail V3 MailData RulesActiveState plist Users lt username gt Library Containers com apple mail Data Library Mail V3 MailData SyncedRules plist Users lt username gt Library Containers com apple mail Data Library Mail V3 MailData UnsyncedRules plist 1 Click on the Finder in the Dock 2 Click on the Go menu at the top of the screen hold down the Option key and then choose Library 3 Open the Containers folder then com apple mail then Data then Library then Mail then V3 then MailData to find the RulesActiveState plist SyncedRules plist and UnsyncedRules plist files e On Mac OS X 10 8 through 10 10 the files are stored at Users lt username gt Library Containers com apple mail Data Library Mail V2 MailData RulesActiveState plist Users lt username gt Library Containers com apple mail Data Library Mail V2 MailData SyncedRules plist Users lt username gt Library Containers com apple mail Data Library Mail V2 MailData UnsyncedRules plist 1 Click on the Finder in the Dock 2 Click on the Go menu at the top of the screen hold down the Option key and then choose Library 3 Open the Containers folder then com apple mail then Data then Library then Mail then V2 then MailData to find the RulesActiveState plist SyncedRules plist and UnsyncedRules plist files e On Mac OS X
235. n to each rule that moves messages For instance suppose you have a rule that moves all the messages from your Work Account account into a Work folder You could set up the rule as shown below Now messages sent to that account will be moved to the Work folder Spam messages sent to that account will be moved to the Junk E mail folder You can add the SpamSieve AppleScript action to every rule that moves messages and also to a catch all rule that applies to messages that aren t moved Then SpamSieve will be able to filter all the messages that you receive 155 Edit Rule Mowe To Work And Run Spamdie if db Add Criterion J Remove Criterion Execute if all criteria are ret wel Account ls w Work Account Michael Hy Then P Add Action A Romowa Action Move message e Work 4 Run Applescript al SpamSieve Move if Spamer vf Do nar aaah other niles to messages That meet these crea 8 4 Setting Up Eudora This section applies to Eudora 6 x Please see the Setting Up Eudora 5 2 section if you need to setup Eudora 5 2 or Eudora 6 Lite 1 Double click the SpamSieve application and choose Install Eudora Plug In from the Spam Sieve menu SpamSieve will install its plug in disable other junk mail plug ins which would conflict with SpamSieve and reveal the Eudora application file for you OL Eudora Application Folder e 3 3 ABConduit Eudora Documentation Eudora app Note If there is an error installin
236. nd recorded as spam but not moved to the Spam mailbox 2 2 August 24 2004 e Accuracy Improvements SpamSieve is smarter about what text to tokenize it extracts more information from messages it s better at detecting invisible text and it can undo more spammer obfuscations The Bayesian classifier can leverage the results of SpamAssassin s heuristic tests It also assigns better word probabilities and is better at deciding which parts of the message are important Messages containing Habeas headers are now checked against the Habeas Whitelist2P8 This protects against spam messages that include Habeas headers in order to get through filters Removed the Import Seed Spam command as it would reduce accuracy with recent versions of SpamSieve e General Improvements Auto training is more automatic There is now a single checkbox to enable auto training and if it s on SpamSieve will try to do the right thing when it processes new messages That is it will train itself using messages of the types that it needs to see more of and it will prevent the corpus from growing unbalanced or overly large Also it will update the whitelist using every incoming good message so that you can have a complete whitelist without bloating the corpus The rules and corpus windows now have toolbars and they support iTunes style filter searching 259 The corpus and rules are now scriptable and SpamSieve now support
237. ne batch before training the next Note If it takes more than a second or for the messages to move after you train them please see the Faster Apple Mail Training section SpamSieve will process new mail automatically and move the spam messages to the Spam mailbox Mail may still color some messages brown and show the special Junk mailbox even though its own junk filter is off this is normal The Junk mailbox holds spam messages caught by server side junk filters before they got to your Mac It s fine to have additional rules in Mail for processing your good messages Just make sure that they are below the SpamSieve rule If you ever need to manually ask SpamSieve to sift through a mix of spam and good messages select the messages and choose Apply Rules from the Message menu SpamSieve will move the ones that it thinks are spam to the Spam mailbox 21 The above is all you need to know about using SpamSieve with Mail The Apple Mail Customization section explains some more advanced setup options such as configuring the new mail notification sound 3 2 Setting Up Airmail Make sure that you are using Airmail 1 3 1 223 or later From the Airmail menu choose Preferences Click on the Accounts icon at the top of the window For each IMAP account in the list a Click on the More tab and look in the Server sync section b Make sure Download message bodies by default is checked c Make sure Download all attac
238. now opens the log in Console so that it s easier to monitor as it changes To get the old behavior of opening the log in a text editor hold down Option and choose Edit Log If the log file grows larger than 5 MB SpamSieve compresses it archives it by date and starts a new log When SpamSieve makes a mistake the log records which classifier made the error and what the message s score was The log also now records parse errors and the number of messages in the corpus e Fixes and Tweaks SpamSieve can optionally show an alternate more photo realistic icon in the Dock There is a new mailing list for discussion of SpamSieve Each tab of the Preferences window now contains a help button that will open the corre sponding section of the Apple help Updated to PCRE 4 5 and SQLite 2 8 15 Fixed bug where SpamSieve could crash when generating a message s identifier if a system routine failed Fixed bug in EDMessage that could cause crashes when decoding certain quoted printable messages Better handling of 8 bit subjects with no specified encoding Worked around Panther bug that could cause crashes or drawing artifacts on the desktop by no longer trying to draw on the Dock icon when it s hidden Worked around OS bug that prevented certain notification sounds from playing Fixed bug where the selection was not always preserved when editing blocklist and whitelist rules The Show Corpus Show Statistics and Preferences commands in t
239. now opens the relevant page of the Apple Help to help you complete the installation 197 The alert when SpamSieve has auto updated its Apple Mail plug in is now non modal so it doesn t interfere with spam filtering The Software Update checker now works behind an HTTP proxy and the auto updater is now compatible with FileVault Can now import addresses from the incorrectly encoded vcf files that are generated by recent versions of Address Book Growl notifications are now enabled by default The Apple Mail plug in is more robust Fixed some small memory leaks Made some performance optimizations to the message tokenizer SpamSieve is more robust when processing incomplete messages The Entourage Train Good command now moves messages out of the Uncertain Spam folder The Apple Mail Train as Good command now moves messages out of zSpam mailboxes Updated to PCRE 7 0 2 5 October 30 2006 Made lots of changes to the parser and classifiers to improve accuracy especially for HTML and image messages The in memory corpus representation is much more efficient which should lead to lower memory use and greater speed Rewrote the Software Update feature When a new version is available it can now show you the release notes SpamSieve now downloads the new version itself rather than relying on your browser On 10 3 and later the Download amp Install button will cause SpamSieve to auto update itself to the la
240. nto the Purchase window to take it out of trial mode If you can t find your serial number you can look it up online 2 5 Uninstalling SpamSieve Please Contact Us If you are considering uninstalling SpamSieve because you re having trouble using it or it doesn t seem to meet your needs please see this page or contact us at spamsieve c command com We re happy to help get you up and running and always looking for suggestions for how to improve SpamSieve Temporarily Disabling SpamSieve To temporarily disable SpamSieve you can just uncheck the SpamSieve rule s that you created in your mail program This is a quick way to turn it off if you don t want your mail to be filtered for a while For example it can be helpful to turn off spam filtering while you are troubleshooting your other mail rules Removing SpamSieve s Application Files If you are using Apple Mail first choose Uninstall Apple Mail Plug In from the SpamSieve menu To completely uninstall SpamSieve first quit your mail program and SpamSieve If SpamSieve s Dock icon is hidden you can first show it in order to quit SpamSieve or restart your Mac which will automatically quit SpamSieve Then delete the SpamSieve application file in your Applications folder Additionally follow the instructions below that are specific to your mail program Apple Mail If you already chose Uninstall Apple Mail Plug In from the SpamSieve menu you can skip these steps
241. nu To edit a rule s Text to Match double click the text For more information about the available options see the Rule Columns Headers and Match Styles section Deleting and Disabling Rules You can delete a rule from the whitelist by selecting it and pressing Delete Generally there is little reason to delete rules SpamSieve is optimized such that having lots of rules does not reduce performance Spammy Whitelist Rules It is normal to see spammy rules on the whitelist that are unchecked This is because of auto training When SpamSieve thinks an incoming message is good SpamSieve also adds a rule to the whitelist SpamSieve may be wrong about that message and that s OK If SpamSieve makes a mistake and lets a spam message through when you train the message as spam it will disable the corresponding whitelist rules The rules will then be shown as unchecked A disabled rule won t match any messages so it won t cause any spam to get through If you see spammy rules that are checked this is not normal It means that you have not been correcting all the mistakes Do not delete spammy whitelist rules This is almost never a good idea e If the rules are disabled you should leave them in place to prevent SpamSieve from creating those incorrect rules again in the future e If the rules are enabled you should find the spam messages from those addresses and train them as spam Not only will this disable the rules but it will also upda
242. o access these items directly as SpamSieve can install them automatically see above They are accessible here in case you want to install them manually 5 1 11 Update Address Book Me Card When you use this command SpamSieve looks at the account information for any e mail programs that are currently running and adds any e mail addresses that it finds to the Me card of Contacts previously Address Book The Me card has me written on top of the picture to find it choose Go to My Card from the Card menu SpamSieve uses the addresses on this card to determine when a message that you receive includes your return address This can help it detect spam messages that were forged to look like you sent them in conjunction with the Exclude my addresses preference Also SpamSieve will avoid automatically creating whitelist rules for addresses listed on the Me card 5 1 12 Uninstall Apple Mail Plug In This command will prompt you to remove any SpamSieve Mail rules then uninstall the SpamSieve plug in and launch agent The SpamSieve application and training data files will remain SpamSieve will then quit Mail itself so that the plug in code is unloaded For more information see the Uninstalling SpamSieve section 5 2 The File Menu 5 2 1 Import Addresses This imports either good or spam e mail addresses from a text file For each address a rule is created on the whitelist or blocklist that matches messages sen
243. o train SpamSieve with spam messages select one or more of them and then choose SpamSieve Train as Spam from Outlook s Scripts menu To train SpamSieve with good messages select one or more of them and then choose SpamSieve Train as Good from Outlook s Scripts menu The keyboard shortcuts for these commands are Command Control S and Command Control G SpamSieve will process new mail automatically If you ever need to manually ask it to sift through a mix of spam and good messages select the messages and choose Rules gt Apply All from the Message menu The above is all you need to know about using SpamSieve with Outlook The Outlook Customization section explains some more advanced setup options 8 7 Setting Up MailForge 1 Make sure that you are using MailForge 2 0 4 or later 2 In MailForge s Junk Mail preferences set the Junk Filtering Strictness to Use SpamSieve 3 In MailForge s Accounts preferences make sure that Full Email is checked for each IMAP account 4 Now proceed to the Do an Initial Training section 164 e To train SpamSieve with spam messages select the messages go to MailForge s Message menu and choose Junk e To train SpamSieve with good messages select the messages go to MailForge s Message menu and choose Not Junk 8 8 Setting Up Outlook Express These instructions apply to Outlook Express an old Microsoft e mail program that runs in Classic 1 Choose Show Other Scripts from SpamSieve
244. old messages in the retraining Resetting the corpus and re training SpamSieve with a proper mix of recent messages can increase SpamSieve s accuracy and reduce its memory use Before you reset the corpus SpamSieve automatically saves a backup in case you need to go back to the old corpus The backups are saved in this folder Users lt username gt Library Application Support SpamSieve See the How can I open the Library folder section To restore from a backup choose Import Corpus from the File menu and choose the appropriate Corpus lt date gt plist file 5 3 3 Show Statistics This command opens the Statistics window which displays the following information Filtered Mail 73 Good Messages The number of non spam messages that SpamSieve has filtered Spam Messages The number of spam messages that SpamSieve has filtered Spam Messages Per Day The average number of spam messages received per 24 hour period SpamSieve Accuracy False Positives The number of good messages that SpamSieve identified as spam False Negatives The number of spam messages that SpamSieve identified as good Correct The percent of messages that SpamSieve identified correctly Corpus Good Messages The number of non spam messages that are used to identify spam messages Spam Messages The number of spam messages that are used to identify spam messages Total Words The total number of unique words in the corpus Rules Blockl
245. on as well as the items requested in the If you have good messages in your Spam mailbox section 7 5 Can I delete spam messages that are in the spam folder Yes It is not necessary to keep the spam messages in your e mail program s spam folder because SpamSieve stores the information that it has extracted from the messages elsewhere 144nt tp c command com spamsieve help changing the name of th 145mailto spamsieve c command com 118 Before you delete any messages make sure that you have corrected all the mistakes To make it easier to find any good messages that are accidentally in the Spam mailbox you may find it helpful to sort by subject or to separate the spam messages by color To manually delete old spam messages you can simply select them in your mail program using Edit gt Select All may help and press the Delete key To automatically delete old spam messages please see the Automatically Deleting Old Spam Messages page 7 6 How should I configure the junk filter on my mail server Spam in Other Locations SpamSieve moves the spam messages that arrive in your inbox into a separate mailbox usually called Spam When you train a message as spam SpamSieve also puts it in that mailbox You may find that you have a second Spam mailbox or a Junk mailbox that is also filling up with spam These spams were likely caught by a junk filter on your mail server The server filter catches its spam messages before the Mac sees
246. on Mac OS X 10 5 Worked around change in Apple Mail on Mac OS X10 5 that could cause the Train as Spam command not to move the messages Fixed bug where the Apple Help didn t work on Mac OS X 10 5 Fixed hang processing some pathological HTML spams Fixed bug where Growl notification preferences got reset if you ran SpamSieve under different localizations Fixed unnecessary Console logging when loading Entourage addresses Updated Italian localization 2 6 4 August 20 2007 Made more accuracy improvements for messages with attachments Fixed a bug that could cause crashes when processing messages containing PDF attachments Updated localizations 2 6 3 August 3 2007 196 Made various accuracy improvements particularly for messages with attachments Improved compatibility with pre release versions of Mac OS X 10 5 Leopard Fixed bug where the Software Update checker didn t always re check for new updates Restored progress bar when loading Entourage addresses Updated the localizations Improved the documentation Fixed help book icon 2 6 2 May 4 2007 Made changes to prevent a crash on Mac OS X 10 4 9 when quitting in response to a mail program quitting Slight changes for better accuracy Fixed regression where the Import Addresses command didn t always work for text files in the default encoding Blocklist and whitelist rules that use Body any text part can now match text from the header
247. on for instructions on checking the setup in your mail program How do I make SpamSieve catch these spams SpamSieve has a feature specifically for catching this kind of spam For messages sent from your address SpamSieve will ignore the fact that your own address is in your address book It will apply its normal Bayesian filtering engine to examine the entire contents of the message and evaluate whether it is spam To use this feature you need to do two things 1 Make sure that Exclude my addresses is checked in SpamSieve s preferences This tells SpamSieve to pretend that your address is not in the address book thus bypassing the Use Mac OS X Address Book safety feature but only for messages sent from one of your own addresses 2 Tell SpamSieve which addresses are yours You do this by listing them on your card in the Contacts previously Address Book application If the addresses are already entered in your e mail program s preferences you can quickly add them by choosing Update Address Book Me Card from the SpamSieve menu If you 111 have other addresses you ll need to add them manually from the Address Book application Add the addresses to your card making sure to enter them in the e mail address section rather than the phone number section Your card is the one that has your name and photo or login image It says me on top of the photo and in the name list it has a black silhouette of a head and shoulde
248. onfigure the junk filter on my mail server to the FAQ The Automatically Deleting Old Spam Messages section of the manual now includes instructions for Outlook Worked around various file permissions problems that could prevent training in Apple Mail from working Worked around a bug in Migration Assistant that could prevent SpamSieve from working properly with Apple Mail The plug in and scripts installers are better able to handle non standard folder structures Fixed a bug where SpamSieve was unable to see the contents of certain malformed messages leading to poor filtering accuracy Fixed a bug where sometimes setting the date in the Statistics window didn t work when Spam Sieve was running in 64 bit mode Fixed a regression where where messages trained as good in Apple Mail didn t move back to the inbox if you were using a local spam mailbox and no inbox matched the message s recipients Made various improvements to the manual 2 9 5 September 21 2012 233nttp www openradar me 12424662 234http www postbox inc com 185 e Updated the Apple Mail plug in to work with Security Update 2012 004 Snow Leopard for Mac OS X 10 6 8 If after installing this update you don t see the SpamSieve commands in Mail s Message menu it may be necessary to go to the SpamSieve menu and choose Install Apple Mail Plug In e The AppleScripts for controlling the Griffin PowerMate seem to trigger a crashing bug in OS X 10 8 M
249. ons to the manual about Whitelisting Previous Recipients and iPhone Spam Filtering Expanded the Auto train with incoming mail section Worked around a problem where the Edit Log command would try to open SpamSieve s log using Script Editor if Launch Services was confused Rewrote filesystem code to improve performance and error reporting If there s an error getting the downloads folder for a software update SpamSieve now defaults to Downloads rather than Desktop 194 Worked around a problem where training using Apple Mail on Mac OS X 10 5 could be inter rupted Added Korean localization Moved nib files that don t need localization out of the English lproj folder This should make it easier to run SpamSieve in a language other than English without changing the default language on your Mac Fixed some small memory leaks Improved reporting of unexpected errors Added placeholder text to the Purchase window Added Help button to the Software Update window 2 7 1 June 4 2008 Fixed a regression in version 2 7 where SpamSieve was slow loading certain large corpus files when running on Mac OS X 10 5 Worked around a bug in Mac OS X 10 4 that could cause a crash when training a message with Apple Mail Made some minor accuracy improvements 2 7 May 21 2008 Now requires Mac OS X 10 4 or later Made a variety of accuracy improvements focused on dealing with obfuscations image attach ments URLs and HTML
250. oolbar or the Message gt Status gt Junk menu command to toggle the junk status of the selected messages SpamSieve will process new mail automatically If you ever need to manually ask it to sift through a mix of spam and good messages select the messages and choose Junk gt Recheck Junk Status from the Message menu Moving Trained Messages Normally when you mark a message as junk or not junk in GyazMail the message stays in the same mailbox If you would like spam messages to move to the Spam mailbox and good messages to move to the inbox you can set up two rules like this Description Train as Spam Type Incoming _ Outgoing C Manual Al 4 Manual Menu If all of the following criteria are met in Account v All Messages Perform the following actions Change Status Junk l Move Message to Folder Spam Choose vw Stop applying rules to this message 24 Description Type Incoming _ Outgoing _ Manual All Y Manual Menu if all of the following criteria are met in Account x All Messages Perform the following actions Change Status Not Junk Move Message to Folder Inbox Choose dm Stop applying rules to this message Then instead of using the Junk and Not Junk buttons to train messages you can use the Message gt Apply Rule gt Train
251. or new messages and filter them through SpamSieve once per hour 82http c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail server junk mailbox 83http support apple com kb HT5394 84http support apple com kb HT5394 63 4 7 Mailsmith Customization Choose Show Other Scripts from SpamSieve s SpamSieve menu This reveals the Mailsmith Extras folder which contains AppleScripts for use with Mailsmith These make it possible for scripters to further customize and automate the labeling and marking of messages in Mailsmith If you are using Mailsmith 2 0 and do not write your own AppleScripts you can ignore the Mailsmith Extras folder You can add the AppleScripts to Mailsmith s Scripts menu by copying them to the Scripts folder inside the Mailsmith Support folder A filter such as the following may be used to change the labels of incoming spam messages B0 e SpamSieve Filter Criteria More Criteria Fewer Criteria lf Read Y ls Equal to True Or Y Read Y la Not Equal ta F True Filter Actions More Actions Run Script Y Spamsieve Label Spam T This filter will pass all messages along to SpamSieve for analysis It will set the Is Spam or Is Not Spam property of the message and change the label of the message if it is spam This is roughly equivalent to enabling SpamSieve in Mailsmith s preferences but because it uses AppleScript it is more customizable Additionally you can change the filter criteria to pass only select message
252. ost supports IMAP but you are not using it you can change the settings on your Mac to connect via IMAP instead of POP Please see the Converting Your Apple Mail Setup to IMAP section or read Macworld s article about this How IMAP Exchange Synchronization Works When using IMAP or Exchange all computers and mobile devices that connect to the same mail account will share the same mailboxes The contents of the mailboxes will be synchronized automatically The syncing happens when you open the Mail application not when you connect the Mac and iPhone and sync in iTunes Filtering Out the Spam You don t have to do anything extra for SpamSieve to filter the spam on your iPhone SpamSieve is already removing the spam from your Mac s inbox so the normal IMAP Exchange synchronization will automatically remove the spam messages from the iPhone s inbox as well When your mail program is running on your Mac it will periodically check for new mail See also the Filtering Spam During Power Nap section New messages will arrive in the inbox and SpamSieve will move the spam messages to the spam mailbox When the iPhone checks for new mail the spam messages will generally already have been moved out of the inbox If the iPhone happens to see a new spam message before the Mac does e The message will appear in the inbox for a short while When the Mac sees it it will move it to the spam mailbox and it will disappear from the inbox on the iPhone
253. ount For example 1 SpamSieve Move messages Account 1 Junk When a new message arrives If all conditions are met e Category Is Junk e Folder Is INBOX Account 1 Do the following e Move Message Junk E mail Account 1 2 SpamSieve Move messages Account 1 Uncertain Junk When a new message arrives If all conditions are met e Category Is Uncertain Junk e Folder Is INBOX Account 1 Do the following e Move Message Junk E mail Account 1 And similarly create two rules for Account 2 etc 5 Menus 5 1 The SpamSieve Menu After clicking on SpamSieve s Dock icon you will see the SpamSieve menu at the top left of the screen next to the Apple menu 5 1 1 About SpamSieve The About SpamSieve window shows the credits download and support information and the current version numbers of SpamSieve s plug ins You can always download the latest version of SpamSieve from the SpamSieve Web site 85http c command com spamsieve 66 Questions about SpamSieve may be sent to spamsieve c command com We re always looking to improve SpamSieve so please feel free to send any feature requests to that address To make sure that you have the latest version of SpamSieve you can use the Software Update command 5 1 2 Software Update Checking for Updates Click the Check Now button and SpamSieve will tell you whether a newer version is available for download By default SpamSieve will automati
254. ountain Lion Thus SpamSieve s Flash PowerMate option has been turned off You can try re enabling it in the preferences if desired 236 e When training a message as good from Apple Mail SpamSieve is better at figuring out which account it came from e Worked around problems on some Macs that could prevent SpamSieve from receiving training commands from Apple Mail on OS X 10 8 Mountain Lion e Import Blocklist Regex Rules 9 using the contents of a text file is a sample AppleScript that shows how to create blocklist rules e Made various improvements to the manual 2 9 4 September 4 2012 e Made various changes to improve SpamSieve s filtering accuracy e Revised and expanded the Frequently Asked Questions FAQ to make it easier for people to find fix and report problems e Fixed a problem where SpamSieve could crash when processing messages from Apple Mail on OS X 10 8 particularly after the Mac had awakened from sleep e Worked around an issue on OS X 10 8 that could cause training SpamSieve from Apple Mail to be very slow e The Train as Good command in Outlook will now move messages from the trash back to the inbox e Made various updates to the manual for OS X 10 8 Mountain Lion for example clarifying that SpamSieve works via Apple Mail during a Power Nap e Worked around a problem where Apple Mail couldn t communicate with SpamSieve if the etc hosts file was damaged e Improved the error repor
255. ourage scripts can now log errors to Console SpamSieve will now log an error if it s not installed in the Applications folder as this can prevent proper functioning with Airmail due to sandbox restrictions Improved the error message if Apple Mail can t launch SpamSieve Errors for corrupt files now link to the relevant Web pages that explain how to fix them Improved the error message when you re using a version of SpamSieve that s too old for your version of Apple Mail Improved error reporting when a temporary folder cannot be created Improved the error message for incorrect serial numbers SpamSieve now reports permissions information if there s an error opening the statistics database Bug Fixes Worked around a bug where Microsoft Outlook does not always correctly return a message s source This could lead to spam messages being classified as good because SpamSieve had no information to work from To get this fix choose Install Outlook Scripts from the SpamSieve menu 193nttp 19h ttp 195 http 19 http 197 http 198 http c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail remote training c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail sanebox c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail discard spam c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail list mailboxes c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail discard spam c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail remote training 175 e Worked around a text convers
256. out of submailboxes of the Junk mailbox The Apple Mail plug in installer works better when the folder permissions are messed up Can now auto recover from damaged message store files rather than complaining to the user about them If SpamSieve is hidden when launched it will refrain from opening the Training Tip window Improved the documentation training tips and localizations Various code modernization and bullet proofing throughout Fixed localization bugs that could cause crashes Fixed crash when hiding the progress panel Fixed crash when saving false negatives to disk Made changes to the Entourage scripts to try to work around an OS bug that causes them to grow and eventually become corrupted Worked around OS bug to prevent freezes when attempting to play damaged sound files 2 4 3 March 30 2006 199 Improved SpamSieve s accuracy by counteracting various spammer tricks Removed the delay when using Apple Mail on Tiger between choosing Train as Good or Train as Spam and when training actually started The Entourage scripts now report progress part way through bulk trainings and allow you to cancel They also warn if it looks like you re training SpamSieve with too many messages and they re better at preventing duplicate categories from being created in Entourage The Train Spam script now removes the spam messages from the server Growl notifications from people in the address book now inclu
257. ove that address from Entourage s address book then click Load while holding down the Option key or uncheck SpamSieve s option to Use En tourage Outlook address book e Ifitsays lt From address Is Equal to gt in SpamSieve whitelist Spam Sieve thought the message was good because a you had trained a previous mes sage from that sender as good or b you had received a previous message from that sender SpamSieve thought it was good for other reasons and you had not trained the message as spam see the Correct All Mistakes section e Ifspam messages are being predicted as good and you don t understand why please send in a report 76 2 Why is a particular good message in my spam mailbox a If there is no Predicted Spam log entry for the message SpamSieve did not move the message out of the inbox In fact SpamSieve was never even given a chance to analyze the message e Check the setup in your mail program to make sure that the built in junk mail filter is disabled and that SpamSieve is the only rule that moves messages to the spam mailbox e Check the Why is every message going to the Spam mailbox section to see if any of those items apply to you e Check the How should I configure the junk filter on my mail server section in case the message is being classified as spam before it even gets to your Mac b If there is a Predicted Spam log entry for the message the Reason will say why SpamSieve thought th
258. ow the Spam mailbox 1 From Mail s View menu choose Show Mailbox List if necessary so that the mailboxes are visible 138 2 Locate the On My Mac section of the mailbox list You may need to scroll down in order to find this Mac OS X may have made the scroll bars invisible but you can scroll down by two finger dragging on your Mac s trackpad or by using the scroll ball on the mouse 3 Move your mouse over On My Mac in the mailbox list Then click the Show button that becomes visible at the right ON MY MAC 7 13 7 Why are messages marked as spam in Apple Mail but not moved Sometimes SpamSieve may classify a message as spam and change its color in Apple Mail but the message does not move to the Spam mailbox it remains in the inbox Here are some ways to fix this 1 Make sure that your SpamSieve rule in Apple Mail looks like the one shown in Step 3 of the Setting Up Apple Mail section of the manual If Mail loses track of the Spam mailbox there may be no mailbox specified in the rule s actions and so Mail will not move the spam messages 2 You can test that the rule works and that Mail is able to move the messages by manually applying the SpamSieve rule Select one of the messages in the inbox that was marked as spam and choose Apply Rules from the Message menu You can check in the Open Log section of the manual whether SpamSieve predicted the message to be spam If it did but the message did not move Mail may be encount
259. p Store The Purchase menu command is not present if you purchased via the Mac App Store In that case there is no trial period and licensing is based on your iTunes account rather than the number of people or computers 87http c command com store 88mailto sales c command com 68 5 1 4 Mac App Store Due to Apple s store guidelines SpamSieve is currently not available from the Mac App Store It can be purchased direct from C Command 5 1 5 Install Apple Mail Plug In This command installs or updates the plug in that SpamSieve uses to integrate with Apple Mail If the plug in is successfully installed you will see the SpamSieve commands in Mail s Message menu For more information see the Setting Up Apple Mail section of the manual If the command reports an error please see the Why don t I see the SpamSieve commands in Apple Mail s Message menu section 5 1 6 Install Entourage Scripts This command installs or updates the AppleScript files that SpamSieve uses to integrate with Entourage Occasionally the script files can become damaged causing Entourage to ask you to locate the SpamSieve application each time you receive mail or try to train SpamSieve Using this command to install fresh copies of the scripts should fix that problem This command also makes sure that you have an Entourage category called Uncertain Junk For more information see the Setting Up Entourage section of the manual 5 1 7 In
260. pam message in Mail Choose SpamSieve Train as Spam from the Message menu to tell SpamSieve that it is spam Drag the message to your inbox and select it again 12 mailto spamsieve c command com 102 4 Choose Apply Rules from the Message menu Note This will also apply your other Mail rules If the message moved to the spam mailbox after Step 4 the rule worked SpamSieve will be able to catch other messages like this if it s properly configured and trained If the message did not move to the spam mailbox there is some other problem with Mail or SpamSieve Please contact technical support and explain what happened when you followed these instructions If Messages Don t Move When Trained Please see the Duplicate Apple Mail Accounts section If Apple Mail Is Running Slowly 1 In Mail s Preferences window click on the Accounts tab then your account then the Ad vanced tab and uncheck Automatically detect and maintain account settings 2 Change the AppleMailPlugInSetIsJunk option in SpamSieve s esoteric preferences to not mark messages as junk 3 If training is slow see the Faster Apple Mail Training section 4 If you are using the Apple Mail Remote Training Apple Mail SaneBox or Apple Mail Server Junk Mailbox script try unchecking the Mail rule that runs the script and see if that helps You can also run the script in Script Editor to see if it is taking a long time to comple
261. pamSieve Move If Spam script instead 4 Now proceed to the Do an Initial Training section To train SpamSieve with spam messages select one or more of them and then choose SpamSieve Train Spam from PowerMail s Scripts menu To train SpamSieve with good messages select one or more of them and then choose SpamSieve Train Good from PowerMail s Scripts menu SpamSieve will process new mail automatically If you ever need to manually ask it to sift through a mix of spam and good messages select the messages and choose SpamSieve Label If Spam or SpamSieve Move If Spam from PowerMail s Scripts menu IMAP Accounts PowerMail does not support moving IMAP messages via AppleScript Thus if you use IMAP the SpamSieve Move If Spam script will not move spam messages into your Spam folder IMAP users should create the rule that uses the labeling script 8 10 Setting Up Thunderbird These instructions apply to Thunderbird 2 x Thunderbird 3 x and later are not compatible Please see the Setting Up Thunderbird 1 5 section if you need to setup an older version of Thunderbird 1 Choose Install Thunderbird Plug In from SpamSieve s SpamSieve menu 2 Launch Thunderbird Choose Add ons from the Tools menu 3 Click the Install button in the window that just opened Thunderbird will ask you to select a file 4 Click on Desktop select the SpamSieve Thunderbird Plug In xpi file and click Open 5 Click the Install now button 166
262. pams will keep coming into your inbox even after you train them as spam Once you fix the configuration SpamSieve will be able to catch these messages as easily as any other spams Why does SpamSieve let these obvious spams into my inbox SpamSieve does what you tell it to do Under the standard configuration the Use Mac OS X Address Book option is enabled in SpamSieve s preferences This is safety feature so that messages from people in your address book are never marked as spam If your address is in the address book and a spammer sends a message from that address SpamSieve will let it through to your inbox It will do this no matter how blatantly spammy the message is doing otherwise would counteract the safety feature How can I tell whether I need to fix the setup The Open Log section of the manual explains how SpamSieve keeps a log of all the messages that it fil tered and why it thought they were good or spam For each incoming message that SpamSieve thought was not spam there is a Predicted Good entry in the log If it says Reason sender lt address gt in address book or Reason sender lt address gt in Entourage address book that means that SpamSieve thought the message was good because it was sent from an address that s in your address book If the address is one of your addresses please follow the instructions below If there s no Predicted entry for the message please see the Why is SpamSieve not catching my spam secti
263. pected log entries for new messages please contact technical suppor and explain what happened when you followed these instructions 7 1 11 Checking the PowerMail Setup 1 Quit PowerMail delete the folder Users lt username gt Library Application Support PowerMail and then re launch PowerMail See the How can I open the Library folder section If the script files that PowerMail uses to communicate with SpamSieve are damaged this will fix them 2 Make sure that you ve followed the instructions in the Setting Up PowerMail section e Make sure that the conditions for the Spam evaluate filter are not excluding the messages that you want SpamSieve to filter For example try editing the filter so that it has just a single condition that says Always e Make sure that the Spam evaluate filter is at the top of the list e Make sure that the Spam actions filter is directly below the Spam evaluate filter To test that the setup works 1 Select a spam message in PowerMail 2 Choose Mark as Spam from the Mail menu to tell SpamSieve that it is spam 139http c command com spamsieve support 109 3 Choose Perform Filter gt Spam evaluate from the Mail menu 4 Click on SpamSieve s icon in the Dock Then choose Open Log from the SpamSieve menu The setup is correct if the last entry in the log says Predicted Spam and shows the subject for the message that you had selected SpamSieve will be able to catch other messa
264. ple Mail messages can now be filed into different mailboxes based on how spammy they are requires 10 3 or 10 4 e The Apple Mail plug in is now a Universal Binary so SpamSieve can be used on Intel based Macs without running Mail in Rosetta e Added support for the new non haiku Habeas headers e SpamSieve now plays notification sounds using the alert volume rather than the master volume and they ll be played on the same output device as alerts and sound effects The old behavior is still in effect when playing classic sound files and when running on Jaguar e Added suppressing notification AppleScript parameter You can use this to prevent Spam Sieve from bouncing its Dock icon or showing Growls when recalculating the spam scores of old messages e The Software Update alert is now a sheet so it won t interfere with spam filtering e If Path Finder is running it will be used instead of the Finder to reveal files folders e Made various tweaks to keep PowerMates from flashing when they shouldn t e Adjusted the standard set of rules e You can now tab back and forth between the search field and table in the corpus and rules windows requires 10 4 e Predicted entries in the log now show the message s sender e Added preference to control whether Apple Mail false positives are marked as unread e Added Technical Support amp Feedback item to the Help menu e The Entourage scripts try even harder to avoid creating duplicate ca
265. plet if you no longer want to use SpamSieve with Eudora 2 Create a mailbox in Eudora called Spam that is at the same level as the In mailbox When you receive new spam messages SpamSieve will move them to the Spam mailbox It will also mark good messages by setting their priority to lowest indicated by two downward pointing carets and mark spam messages by setting their status to transfer error indicated by a red X 3 Now proceed to the Do an Initial Training section To train SpamSieve with spam messages select one or more of them Choose the Filter Messages command in Eudora s Special menu Then double click Train Spam 178http homepage mac com aamann Eudora_vCard_Export html 158 Double click an item to tell SpamSieve what bo de Add Good Add Spam Add Spam and Filter Filter Skip f Cancel for To train SpamSieve with good messages select one or more of them Choose the Filter Mes sages command from Eudora s Special menu Then double click Train Good SpamSieve will process new mail automatically If you ever need to manually ask it to sift through a mix of spam and good messages select one or more of them Choose the Filter Messages command in Eudora s Special menu Then double click Filter Setting Options By configuring the SpamSieve Eudora Helper applet you can tell SpamSieve to process your good messages and spam messages in other ways First quit the applet Then open it using the Scr
266. port Delete Create a new filter Import filters 2 Click Create a new filter and enter Q in the From field Click Create filter with this search 150http gmail com 122 Filter From To Subject Has the words Doesn t have O Has attachment Don t include chats 4 Size greater than MB a Create filter with this search 3 Click OK Confirm discard changes Filter searches that contain only special characters like 8 may have unexpected results and are not recommended Do you still wish to continue to the next step 4 Make sure that Never send it to Spam is checked and click Create filter 123 from back to search options When a message arrives that matches this search _ Skip the Inbox Archive it Mark as read Star it J Apply the label Choose label Forward it add forwarding address _ Delete it Y Never send it to Spam _ Always mark it as important _ Never mark it as important _ Categorize as Choose category _ Also apply filter to matching conversations Learn more Note filter will not be applied to old conversations in Spam or Trash 5 Your filter should now look like this Your filter was created Learn more Settings Q General Labels Inbox Accounts and Import Filters Forwarding and POP IMAP Chat Web Clips Labs The following filters are applied to all incoming mail Offline Themes
267. pport for Postbox 2 52 Updated the Setting Up MailMate instructions for the new preferences in MailMate 1 1 2 Updated the Setting Up Outlook instructions for Microsoft Office 2011 Service Pack 1 Updated the Setting Up Postbox instructions to ensure that messages that you train as spam are moved to the junk mailbox or trash Worked around a rare OS hardware condition that could prevent SpamSieve from launching The Apple Mail plug in is better at reporting errors when it s unable to fully load itself Made various other clarifications to the manual Adjusted the help page titles to fit better in the menu and search results 2 8 5 March 1 2011 Improved SpamSieve s filtering accuracy Improved compatibility with the Thunderbolt MacBook Pros and pre release versions of Mac OS X Freron Software s MailMate Mate section of the manual 244 now works with SpamSieve as described in the Setting Up Mail Whitelisting Previous Recipients now works with Microsoft Outlook 2011 The Train as Good command can now move spam messages out of the spam folder when running a localized version of Microsoft Outlook 2011 SpamSieve s Apple Mail plug in helper now runs as 64 bit on Mac OS X 10 6 where possible to prevent input manager haxies from interfering with the training commands Added a workaround to prevent SpamSieve from hanging if the address book database is damaged Clarified the text in the Welcome and Purchase windows Improv
268. ptions however e If you have multiple account aliases SpamSieve will only know about them if they are configured in Mail s preferences See Adding Account Aliases below e If you receive a Bcc message where your address does not appear in the To or Cc header SpamSieve can t tell which address it was sent to so it can t determine the proper account In that case it will choose the first account in Mail that is not disabled e If you are using the AppleMailTrainGoodGUIScripting esoteric preference described in the Faster Apple Mail Training section this bypasses SpamSieve s telling Mail which inbox to use The message will always move to the inbox that you added to the favorites bar Adding Account Aliases Some users configure multiple aliases for a single e mail account For example if your iCloud account is john q public icloud com you may also want to receive messages sent to johnp icloud com Go to the Accounts tab of Mail s Preferences window and click on your account in the list In this example Mail s preferences would have the User Name entered as john q public By default the Email Address field would say john q public icloud con In order for SpamSieve to know which account s inbox to move a message to when you use the Train as Good command you should enter all of your e mail addresses the main one and the aliases Mac OS X 10 11 Click on the Alias pop up menu and choose Edit Aliases
269. r Spam Filters and Rules When using SpamSieve turn off any other spam filters that you ve installed on your Mac Disable any manual rules that you ve created that move messages to the Spam mailbox or trash This will make it clear which messages SpamSieve did and didn t catch which is necessary for you to be able to properly correct it If you really need those manual rules you can recreate them using SpamSieve s blocklist or put the rules above SpamSieve s rule s so that the messages are moved or deleted before SpamSieve sees them nttp c command com blog 2006 11 11 tell spamsieve the truth 37 Using SpamSieve With Multiple Macs Please see the SpamSieve and Multiple Macs section for information about how to ensure that you are properly correcting mistakes when multiple copies of SpamSieve are filtering the same mail account Resetting SpamSieve Not correcting all the mistakes will cause SpamSieve to learn incorrect information which will reduce the filtering accuracy The only way to fix this is to reset all of SpamSieve s training 1 Quit SpamSieve and your mail program 2 Open the Library folder and drag the SpamSieve folder to the trash Users lt username gt Library Application Support SpamSieve 3 Follow the instructions in the Do an Initial Training section 3 13 SpamSieve and Multiple Macs If you are accessing the same IMAP or Exchange mail account from multiple Macs running SpamSieve it can be di
270. r all the addresses are valid In any case it wouldn t be worth the effort to prune it down 2 You can t contact them Even if you believe that spammers care your bounce message probably wouldn t get to them Spammers use hijacked machines and forged return addresses so if you reply to a spam message you re likely sending your bounce to an invalid address or to an innocent bystander 3 If you could it might be bad for you There is a narrow window of time in which rejecting a spam message might work When the mail server is in the process of receiving a message it s talking to the sending server and so theoretically it could communicate that the address is invalid By the time the message has been delivered to your account downloaded by the mail program on your Mac and filtered by SpamSieve this window has long since closed At this point if the spammer were listening he d already know that the message had been delivered If you were able to get a bounce back to him he d know that it was a fake bounce The original message must have gotten all through so he should send you more spam Since bouncing doesn t work it would be a waste of your time and network resources to do it Including such a feature in SpamSieve would falsely imply that it should be used 7 11 Does SpamSieve prevent me from receiving messages Spam Messages SpamSieve does not prevent spammers from sending you spam This is not possible to do However
271. r iPod touch This is described in the iPhone Spam Filtering section If you primarily read your mail in a Web browser you can still use SpamSieve via Apple Mail Please see the Setting up Gmail iCloud Yahoo AOL or other Web Mail section Supported Legacy Mac Mail Programs SpamSieve also works with these legacy e mail programs http c command com spamsieve supportitolder versions Shttp www apple com osx apps mail Shttp airmailapp com Thttp gyazsquare com gyazmail Shttp freron com 9http www mailsmith org 10nttp c command com forums showpost php p 12577 amp postcount 2 Mnttp www microsoft com mac outlook 12nttp www postbox inc com 13http waw ctmdev com powermail 10 Emailer 2 0v3 previously available from Claris Entourage v X 2001 and later Entourage 2004 or 2008 recommended from Microsoft Eudora 5 x or 6 x in Sponsored or Paid mode from Qualcomm SpamSieve will also work with Eudora 8 0 0b1 a k a Penelope if you follow the Thunderbird instructions It does not work with Eudora 8 0 0b2 or later MailForge 2 0 4 and later from Macsimize Software formerly from Infinity Data Systems Outlook Express 5 018 and later from Microsoft Thunderbird 1 5 0 9 or 2 x from Mozilla Multiple Mail Programs You can freely switch between mail programs or even use multiple mail programs at once SpamSieve will share its training data and statistics among them Unsupported Mac Mail
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273. r the If and change it to say Category Click on the pop up menu for None and change it to Junk The criterion should now say Category Is Junk Click Add Criterion Click on From for the new criterion and change it to say Category Click on the pop up menu for None and change it to Uncertain Junk The criterion should now say Category Is Uncertain Junk O a a Click on if all criteria are met and change it to if any criteria are met Click on the empty space between Change status and Not junk E mail Click Remove Action to delete the Change status action Change status H N Not junk E mail E Click on the menu that says Set category and select Move message Change the menu at the right from Inbox to Junk E mail The rule should now look like oO gt eh Sat 163 Edit Rule Rule name SpamSieve Move Messages Gp Add Criterion YE Remove Criterion Execute _ if any criteria are met 5 Category B Is E Junk B Category B Is Uncertain Junk 8 Then Gp Addaction PE Remove Action Move message junk E mail On My Computer Z Y Do not apply other rules to messages that meet these criteria Mm Enabled Cancel 0K g Click OK to close the Edit Rule dialog h Drag the SpamSieve Move Messages rule so that it is just below the SpamSieve Set Category rule s and above your other rules 6 Now proceed to the Do an Initial Training section T
274. re Command Control S and Command Control G Outlook 2016 will not automatically filter new messages through SpamSieve You can however select a group of messages in your inbox and use the SpamSieve Move If Spam command in the Scripts menu to have SpamSieve separate out the spam messages and move them to the Junk E mail folder The above is all you need to know about using SpamSieve with Outlook The Outlook Customization section explains some more advanced setup options If the filtering doesn t seem to be working properly you can check the setup as described in the Checking the Outlook 2016 Setup section 3 8 Setting Up Postbox SpamSieve requires Postbox 2 0 or later It is not compatible with Postbox Express The Mac App Store version of Postbox does not support plug ins so it cannot work with SpamSieve However if you pur chased Postbox from the Mac App Store you can download the full version of Postbox and use that with SpamSieve 1 Choose Install Postbox Plug In from SpamSieve s SpamSieve menu 2 Launch Postbox Choose Add ons from the Tools menu 3 If you have Postbox 2 5 or later click on the action gear menu in the upper right corner of the window and choose Install Add on From File If you have Postbox 2 0 click the Install button in the window that just opened 4 Click on the Desktop button select the SpamSieveForPostbox xpi file and click Open 5 Click the Install Now button 6 Quit Postbox and
275. re users 219 e Asking SpamSieve to categorize a message now forces an update of all the word probabilities Previously the update only happened during idle time e Highlights the sorted column in the Corpus window The columns themselves have shorter names There s a new Total column Auto resizing of the columns works better You can now manually resize any column and manual resizings and reorderings are saved between launches e Shows fatal errors as alert panels rather than just printing them on the console e The Corpus plist data file is now sorted by word This makes it easier to examine the corpus manually and to compare it to other users corpora 1 0 September 10 2002 e First public release 220
276. re any rules for each rule click on the Advanced tab and make sure that Do not apply rules to list messages is unchecked If you continue to experience problems try unchecking each rule itself to disable it 4 Choose Rules from Entourage s Tools menu and make sure that you ve created two SpamSieve rules as shown in the Setting Up Entourage section a Make sure that the rules are of the proper type That is if you have a POP mail account you need two POP rules if you have an IMAP account you need two IMAP rules b Make sure that the SpamSieve Move Messages rule says if any criteria rather than if all criteria c Make sure that the SpamSieve rules are at the top of the list d Make sure that the SpamSieve Move If Spam rule is above the SpamSieve Move Messages rule e Make sure both SpamSieve rules have check marks next to their names indicating that they are enabled f Make sure there are no other rules that move messages to the Junk E mail folder To test that the rules work 1 Select a spam message in Entourage 134http airmailapp com beta 105 2 Choose SpamSieve Train Spam from the Scripts menu to tell SpamSieve that it is spam 3 Change the category of the message to None using Edit gt Categories gt None 4 Choose Apply Rule gt SpamSieve Move If Spam from the Message menu If the message s category was changed to Junk after Step 4 the rule worked SpamSiev
277. re spam It returns the verdict to the plug in or script which then directs the mail program to move the messages to another folder Some of the e mail programs that SpamSieve supports let you control the order in which the rules a k a filters or mail actions that you have created process mail How you order the SpamSieve rule is up to you If you get a lot of spam that matches the rules you use to organize your mail you might want to run the SpamSieve rule first This will allow it to find spam among all your messages If you would rather deal with spam manually than have any false positives then you might want to run the SpamSieve rule last after all your other rules have been given a chance to match and file away messages from known senders Be sure to check the SpamSieve preferences for additional filtering options 4 2 Whitelisting Previous Recipients For added safety you can specify that addresses that you ve sent mail to will never send you spam To do this in Apple Mail Open the Rules section of Mail s Preferences window and edit the SpamSieve rule Change the condition that says Every Message to Sender is not in my Previous Recipients Mail will then assume that such messages are good without showing them to SpamSieve Entourage Create an outgoing rule that uses this AppleScript to add your messages recipients to SpamSieve s whitelist Eudora Open Eudora s Junk Mail settings and make sure that Mail isn t junk
278. rect location when running on Tiger 2 2 3 November 15 2004 e Fixed bug where SpamSieve would complain of a permissions error at startup 2 2 2 November 14 2004 e Can notify with Growl when good messages arrive and to help spot false positives without looking through the entire contents of the spam folder e Added Change Settings commands for Apple Mail and Entourage which let you configure script options spam folder name behavior when using Train Good and Train Spam etc without having to edit the scripts The settings are stored in SpamSieve s preferences file so they will persist if you update or re install the scripts e Fixed bug where SpamSieve would report a syntax error when processing certain messages typi cally in non ASCII character sets e Better accuracy due to improved header and body analysis e Better accuracy due to smarter auto creation of From name rules e Auto training now takes scores into account the corpus is updated using messages that were harder to classify to forestall errors e Better handling of spam messages that lie about their encoding e Entourage now uses two separate categories for spam messages so that you can see which ones are more or less spammy e Improved accuracy when processing messages in German e Any Address rules now match SendTo addresses e Better handling of messages with From lines e Worked around Mail performance problem where Add Good would hang if
279. reduces accuracy The demo reminder window updates the number of days remaining if you leave SpamSieve running for days or weeks at a time Fixed bug that could cause a crash when using Instant Purchase 255http c command com spamsieve manual fr 203 e Worked around crash caused by bug in 10 2 e Updated localizations 2 3 April 25 2005 e General Works with Mac OS X 10 4 Tiger Made lots of improvements to SpamSieve s parsers and tokenizer for better accuracy To fully take advantage of this you will need to reset SpamSieve s corpus and re train it e g with 300 recent good messages and 600 recent spams However this is certainly not required and I expect that most people will opt for the simpler upgrade of just installing the new SpamSieve application Auto training works better SpamSieve is smarter about selecting which incoming messages to train itself with so that it reaches a high level of accuracy sooner and it is better at adapting to new types of mail that you receive Improved the training tips and the training section of the manual so that it s clearer what the best practices are When training the whitelist SpamSieve will now create rules that match the addresses of the other recipients This should reduce false positives from people who haven t previously sent you mail but who correspond with the same people you do Added Update Address Book Me Card command e Scriptability Added se
280. rom the SpamSieve menu If SpamSieve s Dock icon is hidden you can access the Software Update command via the Message gt SpamSieve Open Window command in Apple Mail or by using the Open Window script b Click the Check Now button 3 Click the Download amp Install button and follow the on screen instructions 28http c command com scripts spamsieve open window 13 4 The username and password for the automatic update are the ones for logging into your Mac They re not related to SpamSieve If you don t know your password you can reset it or update SpamSieve by following the Manual Updating instructions below Manual Updating 1 Go to the SpamSieve Web site and click the Download button 2 Quit SpamSieve and your mail program 3 Replace the old SpamSieve application file with the new one That is if SpamSieve is installed in the Applications folder drag the new SpamSieve application icon into the Applications folder and click Replace when the Finder asks if you want to overwrite the old version Note If you get an error saying that the file is locked or you do not have sufficient privileges drag the old SpamSieve to the trash and empty it and then drag the new one into the Applications folder 4 Launch SpamSieve and your mail program Mac OS X Updates It s best to update SpamSieve before updating Mac OS X To prevent Mac OS X from updating itself without asking you go to the App Store
281. rs instead of a white address book card To find your me card choose Card gt Go to My Card If you don t have a me card you can make one by creating a new card with your name and addresses and choosing Card gt Make This My Card 7 2 What information should I include when I report a problem It will be faster and easier to help you if your e mail includes all of the following information The version of Mac OS X that you are using Click on the Apple menu and choose About This Mac The version of SpamSieve that you are using Click on the SpamSieve menu and choose About SpamSieve Please do not say the latest version as this is ambiguous The name and version of your e mail program In your mail program click on the application menu and choose About lt Mail Program Name gt If you re using Apple Mail it s not necessary to specify the version Information about your e mail setup e Do you access your e mail from multiple computers If so on how many of them is SpamSieve installed e If you are using SpamSieve with the same e mail account on multiple Macs which one of the four approved setups are you using e Do you access your e mail from a mobile device such as an iPhone iPad iPod or BlackBerry e Are you using SpamSieve with multiple e mail accounts If so does the problem pertain to all of them Errors reported in Console Please see Sending in an Error Report Additionally for certain
282. rules Change the Any Recipient pop op menu to say Every Message Every Message is near the bottom of the menu Then next to Move Message select the Spam mailbox that you just created The rule should now look like 19 If any of the following conditions are met Every Message Perform the following actions Move Message to mailbox P Spam F Cancel OK Note Although the rule looks like it will move every message to the Spam mailbox because you have installed SpamSieve s plug in it will only move the spam messages Now click OK to close the rule and save your changes Mail may ask if you want to apply the rule click Don t Apply Drag the SpamSieve rule to the top of the list so that SpamSieve will be able to filter all of your mail If you ever need to temporarily disable SpamSieve e g for testing purposes you can do so simply by unchecking the rule Rules 000 oO amp ASA General Accounts Junk Mail Fonts amp Colors Viewing Composing Signatures Active Description Add Rule SpamSieve IA Edit _ Duplicate Remove 20 5 Make sure that the list shows no other rules for processing spam junk messages If you find any disable them by unchecking them or delete them 6 Select any messages in the Junk mailbox and press the Delete key The spam messages will move to the Trash mailbox If you do not have a Junk mailbox you can skip this step
283. rver when the message contains Habeas headers X Habeas SWE 1 winter into spring X Habeas SWE 2 brightly anticipated X Habeas SWE 3 like Habeas SWE tm X Habeas SWE 4 Copyright 2002 Habeas tm X Habeas SWE 5 Sender Warranted Email SWE tm The sender of this X Habeas SWE 6 email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X Habeas SWE 7 warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X Habeas SWE 8 Message HCM and not spam Please report use of this X Habeas SWE 9 mark in spam to lt http www habeas com report gt 10lnttp answers microsoft com en us mac forum macof fice2011 macoutlook outlook sync services not available 50ca5b05 b69d 4d78 102http www entourage mvps org faq_topic sync_services_basics html 103nttp c command com aboutHabeas 89 or Accreditor Habeas X Habeas Report Please report use of this mark in spam to lt http www habeas com report gt 6 1 8 ADV messages are spam This option causes SpamSieve to always mark messages as spam if they contain some variant of ADV at the start of the subject line The ADV marker is used by some commercial bulk mailers 6 1 9 Encoded HTML mail is spam Many spammers encode the contents of their messages with base 64 so that filters cannot see the incriminating words they contain SpamSieve can decode and look inside these messages This option causes it to mark all such as spam regardless of their contents on the theory that
284. ry SpamSieve free for 30 days 2http c command com spamsieve press 3http c command com spamsieve testimonials 2 Installing and Updating 2 1 Requirements SpamSieve works with Mac OS X 10 6 8 through 10 11 as well as pre release versions of Mac OS X For older versions of Mac OS X previous versions of SpamSieve are available Supported Mac Mail Programs SpamSieve is designed to work with the following e mail programs that are currently under development e Apple Mail from Mac OS X 10 6 and later Some VPNs may not work with Apple Mail on Mac OS X 10 8 or later e Airmail 1 3 1 223 and later Airmail s SpamSieve support requires Mac OS X 10 8 or later e GyazMail 1 2 0 1 5 8 or later recommended e MailMate 1 1 2 and later from Freron Software e Mailsmith 2 3 1 and later from Stickshift Software By applying this workaround you can use SpamSieve with Mailsmith 2 1 5 e Outlook from Microsoft Office 2011 14 x and later including preliminary support for Outlook 2016 15 x from Office 365 limitations described in the Setting Up Outlook 2016 section e Postbox 2 0 and later not Postbox Express from Postbox Inc non Mac App Store version e PowerMail 4 0 and later 6 x recommended from CTM Development PowerMail only supports SpamSieve with POP accounts iOS Mail and Web Mail SpamSieve does not run on iOS but you can use it together with your Mac to filter mail on your iPhone iPad o
285. ry to ensure that SpamSieve is compatible with other Apple Mail plug ins 7 Nevertheless it is possible for another plug in especially an old version to prevent SpamSieve or Mail from working properly Known Issues GPGMail There is a known bug in the GPGMail plug in that causes it to re apply Mail s rules including SpamSieve to non new messages and even to sent messages Mail Tags MailTags has generally been fully compatible with SpamSieve Please make sure that you are using the latest version of MailTags If you encounter any problems see if disabling it helps 174http www tikouka net mailapp 175 http www indev ca MailTags html 143 Troubleshooting If you are using multiple Mail plug ins and seeing hangs problems launching or other unexpected behavior it s best to check whether the problem goes away when only the SpamSieve plug in is installed Mail plug ins can be installed in the global Bundles folder which not all users will have Library Mail Bundles and also in the user Bundles folder Users lt username gt Library Mail Bundles To access this folder see the How can I open the Library folder section Please check both Bundles folders for any mailbundle files folders You can temporarily disable a plug in by dragging its mailbundle to your desktop and then re launching Mail If disabling the other Mail plug ins fixes the problem e You have a temporary fix for the problem uninstall
286. s and any portions thereof and that both notices appear in supporting documentation and that credit is given to Erik Doernenburg in all documents and publicity pertaining to direct or indirect use of this code or its derivatives 10 Version History 2 9 23 December 8 2015 181http www opensource apple com source CF CF 368 28 182http www opensource apple com license aps1 183http growl info 184http www mulle kybernetik com software EDFrameworks download html1 EDCommon 185 http www mulle kybernetik com software EDFrameworks download htm1 EDMessage 170 e Works with Apple Mail under Mac OS X 10 11 2 It s easiest if you update to SpamSieve 2 9 23 before updating to 10 11 2 In any case if you don t see the SpamSieve commands in Apple Mail s Message menu be sure to choose Install Apple Mail Plug In from the SpamSieve menu Otherwise with the SpamSieve plug in not installed Mail will move good messages to the spam mailbox without consulting SpamSieve e Made a variety of changes to work around a bug in Mac OS X 10 11 in which in rares cases the system would start to launch SpamSieve but not load any of its code leaving it stuck in a partially launched state This would particularly happen if Mail itself was auto launched by the system after your Mac booted This could lead to Apple Mail hanging while waiting for SpamSieve spam messages left in the inbox because the Mail plug in was forced to assume they were good
287. s lt username gt Library Application Support SpamSieve and it stores its preferences in the file Users lt username gt Library Preferences com c command SpamSieve plist 157x_spamsieve default k HideDockI conkv YES 158y spamsieve default k HideDockIcon amp v NO 159http c command com scripts spamsieve open window 131 You should back up both of these Moving or Copying SpamSieve to Another Mac To transfer SpamSieve s data to another machine first quit both copies of SpamSieve Then copy the folder and the preferences file to the corresponding locations on the other machine See the How can I open the Library folder section Your SpamSieve license will be transferred when you copy the preferences file You can also transfer it manually by looking up your order information When copying your SpamSieve setup to a Mac that didn t previously have SpamSieve installed you ll need to put the SpamSieve application file in the Applications folder and do the setup in your mail program but you can skip the initial training process because of the files that you copied above If you are copying the training data because you want to use SpamSieve on both Macs rather than just moving it from one to the other please see the SpamSieve and Multiple Macs section Restoring From a Backup 1 Restore the SpamSieve folder and the com c command SpamSieve plist file that are mentioned above 2 Go to the SpamSieve Web site
288. s AppleScript Kit terminology Assorted performance enhancements make SpamSieve faster and improve the responsiveness of its user interface Added Portuguese localization e Blocklist and Whitelist Rules support more match fields From name Any Recipient Any Address Any Character Set and Any Attachment Name The new Import Addresses command lets you import blocklist and whitelist rules from text files e g address book exports or mbox files Added default blocklist rules for pif and scr attachments and a default whitelist rule for lists c command com Rules can now match the empty string e g when there is a subject header but the subject is blank They can also match absent headers by matching against e g lt SpamSieve Unknown Subject gt The Text to Match field now abbreviates using an ellipsis if the text won t all fit e Notification Can make a Griffin PowerMate flash when new good messages arrive 258http c command com aboutHabeas 259Http c command com scripts spamsieve 208 Now supports System 7 format notification sounds as well as Entourage sound sets In addition to the Library Sounds folders SpamSieve will now look for sounds installed with Apple Mail Entourage Mailsmith and PowerMail Doesn t play the notification sound if you are using fast user switching and SpamSieve is running in one of the background sessions Notifications that require dismissa
289. s along to SpamSieve 4 8 Outlook Customization The following customizations are optional but recommended e Choose Outlook gt Preferences and click on Notifications amp Sounds Turn off the alerts and sounds for new mail notifications and let SpamSieve notify you only when you receive new non spam messages e If you re using an IMAP account choose Tools gt Accounts Select your account and click the Advanced button Make sure that Download headers only is unchecked e Choose Outlook gt Preferences and click on Categories You can now set custom colors for your Junk and Uncertain Junk message Additional customizations are described below 64 4 8 1 Change Settings Outlook You can choose SpamSieve Change Settings from Outlook s Scripts menu to customize SpamSieve s behavior in Outlook The settings are e Should Train as Spam mark the messages as read e When you use Train as Good on a message in the spam folder should the message be moved back to the inbox e When you use Train as Good on a message in the spam folder should the message be marked as unread e Should incoming spam messages be marked with category Uncertain Junk rather than Junk if SpamSieve thinks they are not as spammy 4 8 2 Spam Message Categories Outlook SpamSieve colors spam messages in Outlook using one of two categories Junk This is for messages that you mark as spam using the SpamSi
290. s effect when you relaunch Mail Worked around bug in Mail that could prevent Train Good or Train Spam from working properly when training multiple messages at once that were already in their final destination 256http c command com scripts spamsieve whitelist to address book 257http c command com scripts spamsieve open window 204 e Eudora Integration The installer no longer asks you to find Eudora except when absolutely necessary The Eudora plug in is now installed in the Application Support folder rather than inside the Eudora application package Thus it s no longer necessary to re install the plug in when updating Eudora although you still may need to disable the SpamWatch and SpamHeaders plug ins if updating Eudora re enables them Added a Cancel button to the alert that you get if Eudora is already running when you ask SpamSieve to install the Eudora plug in in case you don t want to quit Eudora at that time e Fixes and Tweaks The Apple Help is now multiple linked pages rather than a single page so you can now use Help Viewer s search box Simplified the setup instructions in the manual and added new sections on customization Improved duplicate message detection Fixed bug where e mail addresses were not always correctly parsed out of mail headers Tweaked the format of Trained entries in the log Worked around OS bug that could cause SpamSieve to freeze when installing AppleS
291. s if it detects that they are missing You can also turn this feature off if you prefer to manage the rules yourself AppleMailChangeJunkStatus Please see the Faster Apple Mail Training section of the manual 108mailto spamsieve fn c command com 109 x spamsieve default k AddStandardRuleskv YES 110x spamsieve default k AddStandardRules amp v NO 99 AppleMailLaunchSpamSieveSooner Normally the Apple Mail plug in will launch SpamSieve when Mail launches so that it s ready to filter new messages as soon as they re downloaded You can also set it to only launch SpamSieve when it actually starts filtering messages AppleMailPlugInSetIsJunk Normally when SpamSieve classifies an incoming message as spam it tells Apple Mail that the message is junk This makes sure that Mail will not display remote images for that message thus protecting you from Web bugs You can also tell SpamSieve not to mark the messages as junk This will speed up mail filtering especially on Mac OS X 10 9 as it will reduce the amount of communication with the mail server AppleMailShowOpenWindow When SpamSieve s Dock icon is hidden the Apple Mail plug in normally adds a SpamSieve Open Window command to Mail s Message menu so that SpamSieve s commands are still accessible If the plug in is not able to detect that the Dock icon is hidden you can force it to show the Open Window command or revert back to auto detection
292. s of bounced messages which e mail clients often display as part of the message body The Software Update feature now checks whether the updated version can run on your installed version of Mac OS X Better logging of messages that don t have a sender Fixed a threading bug Made an optimization to the Apple Mail plug in Adjusted the setup instructions for Apple Mail to avoid problem with the Previous Recipients list Modernized the crash reporter code Updated the French and German localizations 2 6 1 April 9 2007 Fixed regression where SpamSieve wouldn t launch if you had a large number of Mac OS 9 sound files Fixed bug where Thunderbird messages that were manually marked as junk weren t moved to the junk folder If you are using Thunderbird first update to SpamSieve 2 6 1 then choose Install Thunderbird Plug In from the SpamSieve menu to update the plug in Made change prevent crash on Mac OS X 10 4 9 when quitting in response to a mail program quitting 2 6 March 19 2007 SpamSieve now works with Mozilla Thunderbird Improved detection of image spams and phishing messages Made various message analysis improvements to increase the accuracy of the Bayesian filter AppleScripting the whitelist and blocklist is much more efficient for scripts that access a lot of rules Improved compatibility with pre release versions of Mac OS X 10 5 Leopard When installing a plug in for a mail program SpamSieve
293. s stored inside the Mail Folder folder e If you manually apply filters while Eudora is in the process of downloading mail Eudora will show the SpamSieve dialog box twice If this happens just choose Skip the second time e Sometimes Eudora erroneously shows the SpamSieve dialog when you check for new mail e Sometimes after a long delay in talking to the mail server Eudora stops notifying SpamSieve when it receives new messages You can work around this by quitting and re launching the SpamSieve Eudora Helper 8 6 Setting Up Outlook 14 0 These instructions apply to the initial release of Outlook 2011 from Microsoft Office 2011 If you re using Outlook 14 1 through 14 3 please see the Setting Up Outlook section 1 Go to Outlook s Tools menu and select Junk E mail Protection Turn off Outlook s junk filter by clicking None and then OK 2 Open Outlook s Preferences window and click on Sync Services Check the option to Turn on Sync Services for contacts and make sure that it s set to sync with On My Computer This will let Outlook to sync its contacts with the Mac OS X address book so that SpamSieve can access your addresses and know from the start that your regular contacts aren t spammers 3 Switch to SpamSieve by clicking on its icon in the Dock Choose Install Outlook Scripts from the SpamSieve menu After you quit and re launch Outlook you should see four SpamSieve items in Outlook s Scripts menu 160 Help About T
294. s that is known to be valid is likely to receive more spam SpamSieve protects you against Web bugs by telling the mail program not to load remote images for messages that it thinks are spam Since SpamSieve catches almost all spam messages you only risk triggering a Web bug if SpamSieve lets a spam message through and you view that message If you know that a message is spam and don t want to select it to train it as spam you can use the drone setup and drag the message to the TrainSpam mailbox For full protection most mail clients have an option to disable the automatic loading of remote images for all messages rather than just known spams The downside to this approach is that to fully view a good message containing remote images you would need to click an extra button to tell the mail client to load the images Since SpamSieve is highly accurate most users opt for the convenience of its automatic protection If you want full protection and don t mind manually loading the images for all your messages follow the these instructions for your mail client Apple Mail In the Preference window click on the Viewing tab Make sure that Display remote images in HTML messages is unchecked Airmail In the Preferences window click on the General tab Make sure that Autoload Remote Images is unchecked GyazMail In the Preferences window click on the Display tab Make sure that Show remote images in HTML messages is unchecked Mail
295. sage menu and when prompted say that the name of your spam mailbox is Junk 5 Go to the Mailbox Behaviors or Special Mailboxes tab of the Mail s Accounts preferences and select a time interval for Delete junk messages when You ll need to repeat this for each account Note Even though you are using the Junk mailbox due to a bug in Mail the Erase Junk Mail command may be disabled Entourage You can set Entourage so that when it quits it will delete all the spam messages that are older than 7 days or whichever interval you choose 1 Choose Tools gt Run Schedule gt Edit Schedules 2 Click the New button to create a schedule 45 3 Set the name of the schedule to Delete Old Spam the When to On Quit and the Action to Delete Junk Mail from Junk E mail On My Computer 4 Click OK to close the dialog Outlook 2016 Outlook 2016 does not support schedules Outlook 2011 You can set Outlook so that when it quits it will delete all the spam messages that are older than 7 days or whichever interval you choose 1 Choose Tools gt Run Schedule gt Edit Schedules 2 Click the button to create a schedule 3 Set the name of the schedule to Delete Old Spam the When to On Quit and the Action to Delete Junk Mail from Junk E mail On My Computer 4 Click OK to close the dialog Postbox See the Automatically delete junk mail older than setting in the Accounts preferences Thunderbird See the Automatic
296. se mail clients you should update the scripts by choosing Install Outlook Scripts or Install Entourage Scripts from the SpamSieve menu Updated the Apple Mail Discard Spam Apple Mail Move If Spam Apple Mail Remote Training Apple Mail Save Spam and PowerMail Uncertain Spam Condition 3 scripts to work around a bug in the upcoming Mac OS X 10 10 If you are using these scripts you will need to download and install fresh copies of them Updated the Apple Mail Remote Training Apple Mail SaneBox and Apple Mail Server Junk Mailbox scripts to work around a problem with duplicate messages created from deleted messages that Mail had not expunged If you are using these scripts you will need to download and install fresh copies of them Added a new method of hiding SpamSieve s Dock icon that doesn t require editing the Info plist file For more information see the How can I hide SpamSieve s Dock icon section of the manual Added the Faster Apple Mail Training Why don t I see the SpamSieve commands in Apple Mail s Message menu and Recommended Apple Mail Customizations Mac OS X 10 8 and Earlier sections of the manual 20 209 http 21http 212http 218http 2l4http 215http mailto 208http spamsieve c command com support apple com kb HT6400 c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail discard spam 210http c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail move if spam
297. se see this forum post for additional information and how you can ask Microsoft to bring this feature back Workarounds You can 3Thttp c command com forums showthread php 4501 Microsoft Dutlook 2016 and SpamSieve 31 e Continue using Outlook 2011 which works great with SpamSieve e Switch to one of the other mail programs that work with SpamSieve Use Outlook 2016 and manually filter messages using SpamSieve see Installation below Use Outlook 2016 with the experimental Outlook Filter Mailboxes script to have SpamSieve auto matically scan the inbox every few minutes to filter new messages Use Outlook 2016 to read your mail but use Apple Mail in the background to automatically filter out the spam Apple Mail may not process incoming messages that your other Outlook rules move out of the inbox however You can train from Outlook as described in Installation below Installation These instructions apply to Outlook 15 x from Microsoft Office 2016 For other versions of Outlook please see the Setting Up Outlook section 1 Go to Outlook s Tools menu and select Rules Uncheck or delete any rules for filtering out junk spam e mails 2 Switch to SpamSieve by clicking on its icon in the Dock Go to the SpamSieve menu and choose Preferences Make sure that Use Entourage Outlook address book is checked and click the Load button then the Outlook button 3 Open the Script Editor or AppleScript Editor appli
298. ship and permissions of the SpamSieve and Apple Mail preferences files if needed This fixes problems where SpamSieve would lose its registration information or Apple Mail wouldn t show the SpamSieve menu commands Fixed some problems where the Open Window command in Apple Mail was not available or did not always open the specified window 2 9 8 September 12 2013 SpamSieve is now compatible with Mac OS X 10 8 5 Made various changes to improve SpamSieve s filtering accuracy The Train as Good command in Apple Mail now considers the message s CC recipients when determining the proper account inbox The installer is better at working around incorrect Apple Mail folder permissions Improved the Why is SpamSieve not catching my spam Open Log Setting Up Outlook Spam Sieve and Multiple Macs and various other sections of the manual The AppleScript for Setting Up a Spam Filtering Drone runs faster now Automatic software updates no longer fail if Hazel is set to move files in the Downloads folder The Help menu now includes direct links to important sections of the manual Removed unused code from the Apple Mail plug in 2 9 7 May 1 2013 Improved compatibility with pre release versions of Mac OS X Made various changes to improve SpamSieve s filtering accuracy SpamSieve no longer links against AppleScriptKit This removes some GUI scripting functionality which is now largely available by other means but works around a
299. sieve 22 14 3 3 Click in the box next to Keyboard Shortcut and enter your desired shortcut We recommend Command Control S Click the Add button 10 11 12 13 Click the button For Application select Airmail 2 or Airmail For the Menu Title enter Spam Sieve Train as Good Click in the box next to Keyboard Shortcut and enter your desired shortcut We recommend Command Control G Click the Add button Setting Up GyazMail Open GyazMail s Preferences window and click Junk Filter Make sure that Enable Junk filtering is checked and that the pop up menu says SpamSieve By default GyazMail will color the incoming spam messages brown If you want the spam messages to also be put in a separate folder create a folder called Spam Then click on Rules in the Preferences window and create a new rule as shown Type M Incoming _ Outgoing Y Manual Al Manual Menu If of the following criteria are met in Account v Perform the following actions Move Message wv Stop applying rules to this message Carei om 23 3 Now proceed to the Do an Initial Training section e To train SpamSieve with spam messages select the messages go to GyazMail s Message menu and choose Junk gt Mark as Junk e To train SpamSieve with good messages select the messages go to GyazMail s Message menu and choose Junk gt Mark as Not Junk You can also use the Junk button on the t
300. since SpamSieve protects you from viewing the spam that you do receive the spammers will not see their messages get through so they are less likely to send you more SpamSieve also does not block spam messages from being received by your Mac This would be dangerous because if it made a mistake no filter can be perfect you could completely miss a good message 128 Instead what SpamSieve does is make sure that incoming spam messages end up in your spam mailbox rather than your inbox No messages are deleted without your knowledge so you always have the opportunity to review them You can optionally configure SpamSieve so that messages from known spam senders go directly to the trash rather than to the spam mailbox Good Messages SpamSieve is designed with safety in mind so that even if there is a bug in SpamSieve it will never prevent you from receiving good messages or damage your local mail store This follows directly from how SpamSieve works e SpamSieve does not communicate with your mail server at all It does not need or affect your network connection or change whether your mail client is online or offline e Messages are not received through SpamSieve It does not sit between your mail client and mail server Instead after your mail client has downloaded the new messages it asks SpamSieve which of them are spam and moves those to the spam mailbox e SpamSieve does not read from or write to your mail client s data store
301. spamsieve default k AppleMailShow0penWindow amp v NO 117x spamsieve default k AppleMailTrainGoodClearFlagskv N0O 118x spamsieve default k AppleMailTrainGoodClearFlags amp v YES 119 _spamsieve default k DisableWhitelistRuleskv YES 120x spamsieve default k DisableWhitelistRules amp v NO 121y spamsieve default k MJTUpdaterDeleteDiskImage amp v YES 1225 spamsieve default k MJTUpdaterDeleteDiskImage amp v NO 100 Normally SpamSieve analyzes the contents of attached images and PDF files to help detect whether a message is spammy You can turn off this feature if you find that corrupt files are confusing Mac OS X s imaging subsystems and leading to crashes QuitMailWhenMacSleeps As described in the Why are messages marked as spam in Apple Mail but not moved section an OS bug can sometimes cause Mail not to move spam messages out of the inbox if they were received right after the Mac woke from sleep You can click heret to enable a workaround where SpamSieve quit Mails when the Mac sleeps and relaunches it when the Mac wakes Or click here to disable the workaround 7 Frequently Asked Questions FAQ 7 1 Why is SpamSieve not catching my spam SpamSieve is normally highly accurate at filtering out spam messages and once properly trained it will usually keep working well If you notice a sudden drop in the filtering accuracy this is usually because of a problem in your mail program s setup not because a new t
302. ss book as a whitelist instead of Apple s This is described in the Setting Up Entourage section PowerMail users should be sure to enable the option to use Apple s address book 6 1 3 Exclude my addresses Enable this option so that spam messages with your own return address are not marked as good Spammers sometimes forge the return address to be your own in an attempt to get through spam filters Disable this option if you send yourself messages and want to make sure that they are never marked as spam SpamSieve looks on the Me card in Apple s Contacts previously Address Book application to determine which addresses are yours The easiest way to add your addresses to the Me card is to open your mail program and then use SpamSieve s Update Address Book Me Card command You can also use this feature to catch spam messages sent from certain addresses in your address book Normally if you have Use Mac OS X Address Book checked messages from addresses in your address book will never be classified as spam This is generally what you want but there may be one or two particular addresses that spammers keep forging By using Exclude my addresses and adding those addresses to the 87 Me card in Contacts you can get SpamSieve to analyze the full contents of those messages to determine whether they are spam SpamSieve will continue to use the other addresses in the address book as before always classifying messages from them
303. ss book directly it will always consider messages from senders in the address book to be good even if you receive many spam messages that are forged to appear as if they were sent by your friends When the addresses are imported to the whitelist however they are subject to SpamSieve s normal whitelist behavior That is if Train SpamSieve whitelist is checked when you receive a spam message from someone on the whitelist SpamSieve will disable the corresponding whitelist rule Subsequent messages from that sender will no longer be whitelisted In short the address book is safer because it makes sure messages from people in your address book always get through The whitelist is less safe but it allows you to block forged spam messages If you prefer the address book behavior but don t have all of your addresses entered into the address book you can use Import Addresses to create whitelist rules from your addresses and then select the rules and use this script to convert the rules into address book cards 5 2 2 Import Corpus This imports the words in a corpus that was exported in XML format This is the same format used by SpamSieve 1 x Importing a corpus merges it with the active corpus To replace the active corpus with the one you are importing use the Reset Corpus command before importing 5 2 3 Export Corpus This exports the active corpus to XML format You might do this in order to import the corpus on another
304. ssages as spam via Herald version 2 1 2 and later a notification plug in for Apple Mail When sorting spam messages by color in Apple Mail you can now use Grey as a synonym for Gray The score script command has a new auto training parameter that can be used to override the setting in the preferences on a case by case basis This might be useful for example if you re writing an AppleScript to triage messages that have already been classified and you just want to get SpamSieve s opinion without having to make any corrections Adjusted the drone AppleScripts so that they re easier to troubleshoot If Apple Mail gives SpamSieve empty data for a message the plug in now assumes the message is good and does not pass it on to SpamSieve for analysis Added support for Growl notifications via GNTP requires Mac OS X 10 7 or later 239nttp www apple com macosx mountain lion security html 240http erikhinterbichler com software herald 188 SpamSieve is better at handling file permission errors SpamSieve is better at handling errors when running helper tools Improved SpamSieve s ability to still function when the application package is damaged Added the AddStandardRules esoteric preference which lets you prevent SpamSieve from creating its built in blocklist and whitelist rules if you prefer to manage the rules yourself Fixed a bug that could reduce SpamSieve s filtering accuracy for some messages with attached files
305. sses Any Address The From To CC Reply To and Send To addresses List ID For mailing list messages this hidden header indicates which mailing list the message was sent to List Unsubscribe For mailing list messages this hidden header indicates how to unsubscribe from the mailing list Some mailing list messages that do not have a List ID header do have a List Unsubscribe header Mailing List For mailing list messages this hidden header indicates which mailing list the message was sent to Some mailing list messages that do not have a List ID header do have a Mailing List header Received any The Received headers contain information about the servers that relayed the message on its journey from the sender to the recipient 81 Return Path This header contains information about where the message originated Subject The subject of the message Body any text part The contents of the message Some messages contain more than one text part for instance plain text and HTML representations of the same message The rule matches the message if any of the text parts matches the rule s text Any Character Set The character set often indicates the language of the message Many spam messages are sent using Asian or Cyrillic character sets and SpamSieve is pre configured to block these The IANA maintains a list of character sets Any Attachment Name Many spam messages contain attachments whose names end with pif or scr Spa
306. stall Eudora Plug In This command installs or updates the plug in that Eudora 6 uses to communicate with SpamSieve It also disables any other Eudora junk mail plug ins as they would conflict with SpamSieve The SpamSieve Eudora plug in is installed in the folder Users lt username gt Library Application Support Eudora PlugIns For more information see the Setting Up Eudora section of the manual 5 1 8 Install Outlook Scripts This command installs or updates the AppleScript files that SpamSieve uses to integrate with Outlook This command also makes sure that you have an Outlook category called Uncertain Junk For more information see the Setting Up Outlook section of the manual S9 http www apple com osx apps app store html 90http c command com store 69 5 1 9 Install Thunderbird Plug In This command copies SpamSieve s Thunderbird plug in to your desktop so that you can tell Thunderbird to install it For more information see the Setting Up Thunderbird section of the manual 5 1 10 Show Other Scripts This opens a folder containing AppleScript files for integrating SpamSieve with DragThing Emailer Eudora 5 2 Outlook Express PowerMail 4 and Mailsmith These can be installed by dragging them into the proper locations Opening the containing folder using Command Up Arrow reveals the scripts for Entourage and Outlook as well as SpamSieve s plug ins for Apple Mail and Eudora 6 Normally there is no need t
307. ste the text from the Activity Monitor window If you aren t sure whether the problem pertains to SpamSieve or the mail program please repeat steps 4 6 for both SpamSieve and the mail program 7 2 6 Sending in Crash Log Files If SpamSieve itself crashes the SpamSieve Crash Reporter window should automatically come up Make sure that you enter a valid e mail address and then click the Send Report button If your mail program or a helper process such as spamsieve reader crashes you ll need to send in the crash log file manually Crash logs are stored in the folder Users lt username gt Library Logs DiagnosticReports e On Mac OS X 10 7 through 10 11 first click on the Finder in the Dock then click on the Go menu and hold down the Option key as you choose Library Open the Logs folder then DiagnosticReports e On Mac OS X 10 6 first click on the Finder in the Dock then click on the Go menu and choose Home Open the Library folder Then open the Logs folder then DiagnosticReports Once you ve opened the DiagnosticReports folder find the most most recent crash log file for the program that crashed and add it to your e mail message as an attachment Note You may be able to temporarily stop crashes in Apple Mail by removing all of the mailbundle files from the folder Users lt username gt Library Mail Bundles 115 7 2 7 Sending in Apple Mail Rules Tf there is a problem setting up your rules in Mail please send i
308. t from that address If such a rule already exists SpamSieve makes sure that it s enabled Rules in the opposite list are not affected This feature is usually not needed as SpamSieve will automatically create whitelist and blocklist rules based on the messages that you receive 70 Many file formats are supported the addresses can be return or comma delimited or they can be mixed in with message text as part of a mbox file e To import addresses from Entourage choose Export from the File menu and select the option to Export contacts to a tab delimited text file e To import addresses from Eudora ask SpamSieve to import the Eudora Nicknames file inside the Eudora Folder which is likely in your Documents folder e To import addresses from Outlook choose Export from the File menu and select the option for Contacts to a list tab delimited text e To import addresses from the Mac OS X address book open the Contacts previously Address Book program Select all the names in the middle column and drag them to the desktop This will create a vcf file which you can import into SpamSieve You may be wondering why you would want to import addresses from the Mac OS X address book instead of using the Use Mac OS X Address Book preference or why you would import addresses from Entourage or Outlook instead of using the Use Entourage Outlook address book preference The difference is as follows When you ask SpamSieve to use an addre
309. t if you update to SpamSieve 2 9 14 before updating to Mac OS X 10 9 3 In any case if you don t see the SpamSieve commands in Apple Mail s Message menu be sure to choose Install Apple Mail Plug In from the SpamSieve menu Otherwise with the SpamSieve plug in not installed Mail will move good messages to the spam mailbox without consulting SpamSieve Made various changes to improve SpamSieve s filtering accuracy Added the Does SpamSieve protect me from viruses and Why does SpamSieve always need an update when Mac OS X is updated sections to the manual Improved the Spam Message Colors in Apple Mail Correct All Mistakes Sending in the SpamSieve Log File Using a Spam Mailbox on the Server Why does the Junk mailbox appear in Apple Mail and Checking the Mailsmith Setup sections of the manual as well as various instructional alerts and error messages The Import Addresses command no longer has a file size limit SpamSieve no longer prompts to access the system contacts database if you have Use Mac OS X Address Book unchecked Made some changes to make SpamSieve launch faster especially when cfprefsd is slow to respond Rewrote the Apple Mail Discard Spam script to not rely on GUI scripting and to avoid deleting messages that were already in the trash The Setting Up Postbox command works better with pre release versions of Postbox SpamSieve now checks the permissions on more of Apple Mail s folders If an error
310. t to sync with On My Computer This will let Outlook to sync its contacts with the Mac OS X address book so that SpamSieve can access your addresses and know from the start that your regular contacts aren t spammers If the Sync Services list is empty see this page or this page If you have Entourage Open Entourage s Preferences window If you see an option in the General Preferences for Sync Services select it and make sure that Synchronize contacts with Address Book and MobileMe or Mac is checked This will cause Entourage to sync its contacts with the Mac OS X address book so that SpamSieve can access your addresses and know from the start that your regular contacts aren t spammers 6 1 5 Use SpamSieve whitelist Enable this option so that messages that match enabled rules on the SpamSieve whitelist are never marked as spam 6 1 6 Use SpamSieve blocklist Enable this option so that messages that match enabled rules on the SpamSieve blocklist are always marked as spam 6 1 7 Use Habeas Safelist The Habeas Safelist is list of senders who agree to only send e mail that meets Habeas stringent compli ance requirements With this option checked SpamSieve will consider a message to be non spam if finds the sending mail server s IP address on the Habeas Safelist This entails contacting Habeas server to lookup the address but there is little performance penalty for doing this since SpamSieve only contacts the se
311. te 5 If none of these suggestions helped please see the Sending in a Sample Report section 7 1 2 Duplicate Apple Mail Accounts In rare cases two bugs in Mac OS X 10 11 can cause the training commands to fail The SpamSieve Train as Spam command doesn t move the message to the Spam mailbox and an error such as SpamSieve Apple Mail Plug In Train as Spam Error Training Mail got an error Can t get mailbox INBOX of account lt account gt is reported in Console The SpamSieve Train as Good command doesn t move the message to the inbox and an error such as SpamSieve Apple Mail Plug In Train as Good Error Training Mail got an error An error of type 8 has occurred 128nttp c command com spamsieve support 129nttp c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail remote training 130http c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail sanebox 131http c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail server junk mailbox 132http c command com forums showthread php 4554 Spam not going to spam folder p 178718viewfull 1itpost17871 103 is reported in Console To make the training commands work and prevent these errors 1 Choose Preferences from the Mail menu 2 Click on the Accounts tab 3 Make sure that each account has a unique name You can edit the Description field for an account to change its name so that it is different from the other accounts names For example you may have both an activ
312. te SpamSieve s corpus and statistics Whitelisting Domains You can tell SpamSieve to classify every message from a particular domain as good For example to whitelist every message from Apple open the Whitelist window click the button and create a rule that says From address Ends With apple com Mailing List Messages The whitelist has special support for mailing lists If you train SpamSieve with a good message from a mailing list it will add a rule to the whitelist that matches the message s mailing list header List ID List Unsubscribe or Mailing List Then SpamSieve will know that all messages from that mailing list are good regardless of who sent them Codewords You can use the whitelist to create codewords For instance you could create a rule in the whitelist that matches subjects containing eggplant or some other word unlikely to occur in regular mail You can tell select people to put eggplant in the subject of messages that they send you and then you can be assured that their messages will get through even if the sender addresses are not in your address book or whitelist Finding Rules You can type the first few letters of a rule s Text to Match to quickly locate that rule or use the search 84 field in the toolbar to focus on a group of related rules Exporting Addresses You can use the Copy Whitelist Blocklist Addresses script to get a list of addresses e g to add to the configuration
313. te a blocklist rule that matches messages sent to invalid addresses at your domain For example this regex lt sales support domain com would match all messages where the match field ends with domain com but is not sales domain com or support domain com Finding Rules You can type the first few letters of a rule s Text to Match to quickly locate that rule or use the search field in the toolbar to focus on a group of related rules Exporting Addresses You can use the Copy Whitelist Blocklist Addresses script to get a list of addresses e g to add to the configuration of a server side spam filter Troubleshooting Rules Blocklist rules will not match a message if e One of the Filters above the blocklist classified the message as good e The blocklist rule is disabled e The mail program did not send the message to SpamSieve for analysis See the Why is SpamSieve not catching my spam section 5 3 7 Rule Columns Headers and Match Styles This section explains the options available for each rule in SpamSieve s blocklist and whitelist windows Rule Columns The meanings of the columns are as follows Date The date that the rule was added to the blocklist Header The part of the message that will be matched against the rule Match Style How the rule text will be matched against the text from the message s header Text to match The text that will be matched against the message s header http
314. tegories e SpamSieve now avoids loading the address book except when absolutely necessary Thus if your address book is corrupted such that loading it would cause a crash you ll still be able to receive mail if you turn off SpamSieve s address book related features e Messages with empty senders are no longer considered to be from people in the address book even if the address book contains a contact with such an address 253nttp c command com store 254http c command com sn 201 Fixed longstanding bug in which sorting the blocklist or whitelist by Header or Match Style would group the rules appropriately but wouldn t order the groups alphabetically by the localized text in the column Improved the error messages in the application and in the Apple Mail plug in Made a change to prevent Apple Mail from deadlocking in rare circumstances when training SpamSieve on Mac OS X 10 4 3 Fixed regression where Trained Auto log entries occurred before the corresponding Predicted ones The Apple Mail training commands now respect the preference for whether to color messages Added hidden preference LogSpam that you can turn on with defaults write com c command SpamSieve LogSpam YES to make SpamSieve keep a maildir style folder of the spam messages it s seen Right now this is not recommended for general use on slower machines Updated link to Habeas Safelist Updated eSellerate PCRE and SQLite libraries Added Danis
315. test version Improved accuracy on messages containing misspelled words Now requires Mac OS X 10 2 8 or later Auto training now places a higher priority on corpus balance compared to learning from novel messages Improved the Apple Mail plug in s Train as Good script to work around a bug in Mail Improved the reliability of the Apple Mail training commands Made further changes to improve the success rate of the Apple Mail plug in installer Updated to PCRE 6 7 Entourage training progress messages no longer block if Entourage is in the background Worked around OS bug that prevented the Statistics sheet from properly parsing dates when the user s date format started with a two digit year No longer quits with an internal error if the mydefaults tool can t be installed Added keyboard shortcut for Hide Others Fixed bug with Purchase window sheet Removed some old unused code Updated the toolbar icons Various localization and documentation improvements Fixed bug with display of remaining demo time 198 The Entourage script installer is more robust when contacting Entourage via AppleScript fails Improved compatibility with Leopard The date in the Statistics window more closely matches the user s preferences 10 4 and later Better at detecting damaged corpus files instead of crashing Fixed bug where Uncertain Spam growls were always sent even if disabled in SpamSieve s pref erences Adjusted workaround
316. the mistakes but sometimes forget to correct them then you should not use auto training Multiple Copies of SpamSieve If you are using multiple copies of SpamSieve on different Macs to filter the same IMAP account it s hard to know which one s to correct when a mistake is made With auto training off you don t have to worry about that Bulk Processing For example if SpamSieve will be processing a large number of incoming messages in a row and you will not be able to correct any mistakes until later In this case using auto training could magnify one or two mistakes into many as SpamSieve would assume that it had classified the earlier messages correctly and learned from that possibly incorrect assumption Delayed Corrections If it will be a long time between when SpamSieve filters some messages and when you can correct any mistakes the situation is similar to Bulk Processing so you may want to turn off auto training If you ll be away from your SpamSieve Mac but have other mail access you can eliminate the delay by using remote traininng See the Setting Up a Spam Filtering Drone section 6 3 3 Train SpamSieve whitelist With this option enabled training SpamSieve with a good message will add the message sender s name and address to SpamSieve s whitelist This will make SpamSieve classify all future messages from that sender as good Training SpamSieve with a spam message will disable the name and address if they app
317. the proper inbox Offloaded more PDF processing to the helper tool so that SpamSieve itself doesn t crash if you receive a message with a corrupt PDF attachment Made the Apple Mail plug in installer more robust and better at reporting errors An error finding the built in copy of SpamSieve s Eudora plug in will no longer prevent SpamSieve from launching unless it actually needs to install the plug in Entourage is supposed to create the Entourage Script Menu Items folder but for extra robust ness SpamSieve will now create it if it s missing If SpamSieve s PDF reader detects that the CTLoader input manager is loaded it now logs a warning that this may cause SpamSieve to hang 241 http www postbox inc com 242nttp growl info 189 Tried to work around an unconfirmed issue that could prevent SpamSieve from processing the first few Apple Mail messages on Mac OS X 10 7 Lion Fixed a bug with re personalizing the application via URL Clarified the Do an Initial Training section of the manual Updated the Import Addresses instructions for Microsoft Outlook The Setting Up a Spam Filtering Drone section of the manual now includes instructions for setting up a drone for multiple mail accounts The manual now explains how to open the Library folder on Mac OS X 10 7 Lion 2 8 6 July 6 2011 Made various changes to improve SpamSieve s filtering accuracy Improved compatibility with Mac OS X 10 7 Lion Added su
318. the wrong inbox when trained in Apple Mail 2 9 21 September 28 2015 Works with Apple Mail under Mac OS X 10 11 El Capitan It s easiest if you update to SpamSieve 2 9 21 before updating to El Capitan In any case if you don t see the SpamSieve commands in Apple Mail s Message menu be sure to choose Install Apple Mail Plug In from the SpamSieve menu Otherwise with the SpamSieve plug in not installed Mail will move good messages to the spam mailbox without consulting SpamSieve Made various changes to improve SpamSieve s filtering accuracy Microsoft Outlook 2016 removes the Run AppleScript rule action feature This makes it im possible to create a rule that automatically processes incoming messages with SpamSieve We recommend using the send a smile button in Outlook s main window below the search field to send Microsoft feedback asking them to prioritize this feature Please see this forum post for more information and workarounds for using SpamSieve with Outlook 2016 Added the Outlook Filter Mailboxes script as a workaround for automatically filtering mes sages with Outlook 2016 Added support for App Transport Security on Mac OS X 10 11 Modernized code for the Xcode 7 compiler and the Mac OS X 10 11 SDK The About Software Update and help windows now use the San Francisco font on Mac OS X 10 11 Added the following sections to the manual Filtering Spam During Power Nap Should I downlo
319. then choose Mes sage gt Mark gt As Not Junk click the junk icon in the junk status column of the message list or press the J key You can also customize the toolbar to add a Junk Not Junk button Note If Postbox already thinks that a message is junk it may not let you mark it as junk and likewise for not junk That s OK it is enough to train SpamSieve by marking the messages that are misclassified in Postbox SpamSieve will process new mail automatically If you ever need to manually ask it to sift through a mix of spam and good messages select the messages and choose Message gt Mark gt Run Junk Mail Controls The above is all you need to know about using SpamSieve with Postbox The Customization section explains some more advanced setup options 3 9 Setting Up PowerMail These instructions apply to PowerMail 6 and PowerMail 5 Please see the Setting up PowerMail 4 section if you need to setup an older version of PowerMail 1 Make sure that you are using a POP not IMAP account 2 Go to the Mark as Spam pane of PowerMail s Preferences window Click the Spam filter assistant button and tell the assistant that you want to use SpamSieve 3 Now proceed to the Do an Initial Training section e To train SpamSieve with spam messages select one or more of them and then choose Mark as Spam from the Mail menu e To train SpamSieve with good messages select one or more of them and then choose Mark as Good from the Mail m
320. ther computer or device to check the contents of your various mailboxes If the messages show up there but not on your main Mac you may need to rebuild your local mail database 3 Make sure that you have not created any rules on your mail server on your mail client or on another computer that delete messages or move them to the spam mailbox or trash For example a rule on one Mac that moves a message to a local mailbox will make it disappear from other computers that access the same mail account 129 4 Make sure that a junk filter on your mail server is not moving or deleting messages before you see them 7 12 SpamSieve Application Questions 7 12 1 Why doesn t my serial number work You need to enter the serial name and serial number exactly as they appear on your order confirmation e mail If you no longer have this e mail you can look up the name and number Launch SpamSieve and choose Purchase from the SpamSieve menu Then click the Look Up My Serial Number button 7 12 2 Should I download SpamSieve from this free site No We only recommend downloading SpamSieve from http c command com and from reputable down load sites such as Apple and MacUpdate The C Command Store lists all the vendors that are authorized to sell SpamSieve The following sites DropDMG downloads4mac com DropDMG install4mac com DropDMG onFreeDownload com EagleFiler downloads4mac com EagleFiler install4mac com EagleFiler onFreeDownload com Spam
321. there were a lot of recipients 206 e The Dock and DragThing good message counter no longer increases for messages received while the mail program is active e Added Russian localization e Improved the French localization e Better recovery from damaged Rules and History db files e Added Italian localized installation instructions e Improved launch time e Better parsing of PGP messages e Worked around 10 2 bug that could cause crashes when the Training Tip window was updated e Fixed bad interaction between auto training and duplicates when the corpus was small e More tolerant of incorrect file and folder permissions e If Launch Services cannot find the Eudora application the installer will now try some heuristics and prompt the user to locate Eudora rather than giving up e The Apple Mail and Eudora plug ins are better at finding and launching the SpamSieve applica tion and they will notify the user if they are unable to do this e Updated to eSellerate 3 5 9 which provides support for registration names using non ASCII char acters e When you type in your serial number SpamSieve normalizes its spacing and case e The Add Good and Add Spam AppleScripts have been renamed Train Good and Train Spam When installing the new scripts SpamSieve will automatically move the old ones to the trash e The Entourage spam folder is now called Junk E mail instead of Spam since Entourage 2004 already has a so named folder
322. they re entered e The Spam folder in Entourage no longer has to be top level e Entourage can mark good messages as unread e Type selecting in table views is quicker e No longer nags constantly when unregistered e Fixed bug where it could look as though SpamSieve had hung if it started up in the background with an empty corpus 1 3 1 June 18 2003 e Added direct integration with Mailsmith 2 0 and later Enabling SpamSieve is as easy as clicking a checkbox You can train SpamSieve directly from Mailsmith s Message menu Bare Bones Software has seamlessly integrated it with Mailsmith s powerful filtering system and Mailsmith knows not to bounce its Dock icon after receiving a batch of messages that are all spam 216 Fixed crashing bug triggered by incorrectly encoded headers Regex substitutions are faster and much more memory efficient When adding spam messages to the corpus the default is now for SpamSieve to move them to the Spam folder The PowerMail Move If Spam script now changes the color of spam messages The Emailer scripts now pass text and HTML attachments on to SpamSieve for analysis Added instructions for using the Entourage and PowerMail address books as whitelists Compacted the ED frameworks to reduce application size and memory use Disabled SQLite s file locking so that SpamSieve s data folder can now be located on an AppleShare volume Caches the Address Book to speed whitelist lookups 100 fold
323. this link if you want to stop receiving beta updates e If you are using a newer pre release version of Mac OS X that does not work with the public beta of SpamSieve please try installing the Apple Mail plug in and then use the More Info button in the error window to send us the error information via e mail e Previous versions of SpamSieve would let you hold down the Option key to install the Apple Mail plug in on non supported versions of Mac OS X This workaround stopped working with Mac OS X 10 10 and has been removed 170http c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail move if spam 171x spamsieve default k MJTUpdateCheckerBetaKeykv PublicBeta 172 _spamsieve default k MJTUpdateCheckerBetaKkey amp delete 1 173mailto spamsieve c command com 141 7 13 9 How can I rebuild Apple Mail s database Many common problems with Mail can be fixed by rebuilding all or part of its index database For example e You have a mailbox that shows a number of unread messages in the mailbox list but when you click on the mailbox there do not seem to be any unread messages inside e Messages seem to have disappeared they show up when you search your Mac using Spotlight but not when browsing or searching in Mail e A smart mailbox doesn t seem to be finding the messages that you think it should e You click on a mailbox that you know contains some messages but Mail doesn t show any e Messages are colored as spam but remain in t
324. ting a file Mail stores its primary copy of your message data elsewhere When you delete the damaged database Mail uses this primary copy to create a new index database 142 4 Relaunch Mail It will welcome you as if you haven t used it before This step may take a few minutes as Mail searches through all of your stored messages to build your new database file IMAP and Exchange messages will need to be re downloaded from the server 7 13 10 How can I reset Apple Mail s junk database A corrupt database for Mail s built in junk mail filter can cause Mail to crash when processing incoming messages or when training messages with SpamSieve To reset the database find the LSMMap2 file and drag it to the trash e On Mac OS X 10 11 the file is stored at Users lt username gt Library Mail V3 MailData LSMMap2 See the How can I open the Library folder section Open the Mail folder then V3 then MailData to find the LSMMap2 file e On Mac OS X 10 7 through 10 10 the file is stored at Users lt username gt Library Mail V2 MailData LSMMap2 See the How can I open the Library folder section Open the Mail folder then V2 then MailData to find the LSMMap2 file e On Mac OS X 10 6 the file is stored at Users lt username gt Library Mail LSMMap2 See the How can I open the Library folder section Then open the Mail folder to find the LSMMap2 file 7 13 11 Can other Apple Mail plug ins cause problems with SpamSieve We t
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326. ting amp v NO 52 3 Control click on the SpamSieve application file and choose Show Package Contents 4 Open the Contents folder and then the MacOS folder 5 Drag and drop the SpamSieveHelper file into the Allow the apps below to control your computer list in System Preferences e In rare cases SpamSieve may report that SpamSieveHelper is not checked in the Accessibility preferences even though it actually is This typically means that Mac OS X s privacy database has been corrupted You can reset the database by entering this command in Terminal tccutil reset Accessibility The Drone Setup Aside from the GUI Scripting workaround above you can also speed up training by following the Setting Up a Spam Filtering Drone instructions Instead of using the Message menu commands to train messages you would move the messages into the special TrainGood and TrainSpam mailboxes 4 6 2 Recommended Apple Mail Customizations Mac OS X 10 8 and Earlier Offline Copies For each IMAP account that you have go to the Advanced tab of Mail s Accounts preferences and make sure that Keep copies of messages for offline viewing is set to All messages and their attachments This will prevent Mail from having to download the same content multiple times Add Sender to Contacts Change the keyboard shortcut for Add Sender to Contacts to Control Option Shift Command Y This will prevent you from accidentally adding spammy addresses to your address book
327. ting when SpamSieve detects that one of its files is damaged e Added defensive coding to try to track down a notification icon problem when running in French e You can now set the MJTSoundLoadFromApps default to false if you want to prevent SpamSieve from looking for notification sounds installed by other applications e g to prevent mounting an encrypted Microsoft User Data folder e Fixed a bug handling errors if a software update failed if it succeeded the dmg file is now deleted to reduce clutter e After purchasing SpamSieve used to show your user image to indicate that it had been successfully personalized It now shows a generic checkmark to avoid prompting you for Contacts access on OS X 10 8 e Added an icon for the crash reporter since it s now displayed under OS X 10 8 e Fixed a bug where Apple Mail on Mac OS X 10 5 would log harmless errors about NSAutoreleaseNoPool 235http support apple com kb DL1586 236nttp www griffintechnology com support powermate 237http c command com scripts spamsieve import blocklist regex rules 238http support apple com kb HT5394 186 Fixed a bug where the Apple Mail plug in sometimes logged confusing error messages about not being able to launch SpamSieve even though it was already launched Fixed a bug where the Apple Mail plug in reported the wrong installation path in an error message when running on OS X 10 8 2 9 3 July 19 2012 Added support for the forthcoming Mac
328. tion of the manual has been updated for Mac OS X 10 9 Mavericks Improved various other parts of the manual and Read Me Tried to work around a problem where the Outlook installer received an error from the system when the Mac was running in French 2 9 9 October 7 2013 SpamSieve is now compatible with the GM build of Mac OS X 10 9 Mavericks It is recommended that you update to SpamSieve 2 9 9 before installing Mavericks If you ve updated to Mavericks first and you don t see the SpamSieve commands in Apple Mail s Message menu be sure to choose Install Apple Mail Plug In from the SpamSieve menu Made various changes to improve SpamSieve s filtering accuracy 226http freron com 227http store griffintechnology com powermate 228nttp support apple com kb HT6030 viewlocale en_USklocale en_US 229http c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail discard spam 183 Microsoft Outlook 2011 s notification sounds are now available in SpamSieve s Notification pref erences Added the Apple Mail Server Junk Mailbox script When it s not possible to turn off a server side junk filter e g iCloud s this lets SpamSieve save you from mistakes that the server junk filter made by moving any messages that SpamSieve thinks are good back to the inbox It will also consolidate the spam messages from all the accounts into a single spam mailbox the same one where SpamSieve is already putting your spam Can now repair the owner
329. tions are met e Folder Is INBOX Account 1 e Category Is Junk Do the following Move Message Junk E mail Account 1 The name of the second rule should be SpamSieve Move Uncertain Junk Messages Account 1 It should say If all conditions are met e Folder Is INBOX Account 1 e Category Is Uncertain Junk Do the following Move Message Junk E mail Account 1 3 Download the Outlook Remote Training script file Open it in Script Editor and add your account name s at the top 4 In Outlook choose Tools gt Run Schedule gt Edit Schedules Click the button and create a schedule called Remote Training The When should be Repeating Schedule with a duration of your choice The Action should be Rule AppleScript Click the Script button and choose the Outlook Remote Training scpt file from Step 4 4 5 Customizing Using AppleScript Many aspects of SpamSieve are scriptable and it is possible to customize SpamSieve and extend its features using AppleScript A collection of commonly requested example scripts is available SpamSieve s interface for integrating with third party mail and news programs is completely open It is possible to add support for additional programs simply by writing some AppleScripts or Apple event code SpamSieve s AppleScript dictionary contains some basic information about the supported commands How ever there are some subtle but important points that are not discussed in the dictionary s
330. tore your spam on the mail server make sure that Mail knows which mailbox is your Junk mailbox To do this create a new mailbox under your account Select it and choose Mailbox gt Use This Mailbox For gt Junk 58nttp c command com scripts spamsieve powermail whitelist recipients 59nttp c command com scripts spamsieve apple mail discard spam 44 2 Open Mail s Preferences window and click on Junk Mail Make sure that Enable junk mail filtering is checked Select Move it to the Junk mailbox If Mail asks whether you want to move all the messages to the Junk mailbox say No Next select Perform custom actions Then click the Advanced button and edit the rule such that the conditions don t match any messages For example use these two conditions e Message is addressed to my Full Name e Message is not addressed to my Full Name and set it to If all of the following conditions are met Click OK to close the sheet Do not make any further changes to the Junk Mail preferences Description Pak 22 if all of the following conditions are met Message is addressed to my full name a X Message is not addressed to my full name Perform the following actions Set Color of Message of text Q 3 Go to the Rules section of Mail s preferences and change the SpamSieve rule to move the messages to the Junk mailbox instead of the Spam mailbox 4 Choose SpamSieve Change Settings from Mail s Mes
331. trategies for coping with multiple Junk Spam mailboxes in Apple Mail This is especially useful if you are using a mail host such as iCloud whose junk filter cannot be turned off Separate Mailboxes for Each Spam Junk Filter Some users like having separate Junk and Spam mailboxes If this is what you want just be sure to check both locations for false positives so that no good messages get stuck there Only good messages in the Spam mailbox need to be trained as good because good messages in the Junk mailbox are not SpamSieve mistakes Combined Mailbox for Multiple Spam Junk Filters Use a Smart Mailbox You can create a smart mailbox to show the contents of all the mailboxes in one place For example it might look like this Contains messages that match any of the following conditions e Message is in mailbox Junk e Message is in mailbox Spam You will still have the separate actual mailboxes but you will be able to review all of your spam at once in the smart mailbox Tell SpamSieve to Use the Junk Mailbox You may not be able to change where your server filters put spam messages but you can change what SpamSieve does You can tell it to put the spam in Mail s special Junk mailbox which the server junk filters are probably already using The messages will still be stored under their respective accounts but there will be less visual clutter 1 This setup requires Mac OS X 10 9 or later It will only work if Mail is showin
332. troubleshooting instructions clearer Replaced the Training Tip window with an alert that s displayed when SpamSieve s corpus is empty This goes along with the more explicit guidance that ongoing training is only necessary to correct mistakes The Entourage installer no longer asks before replacing existing script files If you want to customize the scripts rare these days since there are so many built in configuration options you should use copies with different names to avoid having SpamSieve overwrite them Changed the recommended Entourage rule setup to better handle uncertain messages The in staller now creates the Uncertain Junk category if necessary Made the Apple Mail plug in installer more robust Worked around a problem parsing certain multipart messages Adjusted the built in blocklist rules for better accuracy Reduced memory usage when processing message attachments Fixed a bug sorting in rules windows Fixed a bug marking incoming Entourage messages as Uncertain Junk Updated the localizations 2 7 2 October 29 2008 Made various accuracy improvements Improved compatibility with pre release versions of Mac OS X 10 6 Snow Leopard There are now two separate versions of SpamSieve s Apple Mail plug in Version 1 3 is for Mac OS X 10 4 version 1 4 is for Mac OS X 10 5 and later SpamSieve will auto choose which one to install or update based on the version of Mac OS X that you re running Added new secti
333. tside the app with a read me 2 1 2 January 26 2004 e SpamSieve can now move Apple Mail POP messages to the Spam folder Thus it now fully supports Apple Mail on Jaguar and Panther e Honor Habeas headers is now off by default e Fixed regression where blocklist and whitelist rules got deselected after editing their text e When loading addresses from Entourage SpamSieve now picks up addresses that are not associ ated with any contact that is they appear only in a group e The default date shown in the Statistics window is now the date that SpamSieve was first launched rather than September 2002 e The Apple Mail Add Good script is better at finding the proper inbox when moving false positives out of the Spam folder e The Apple Mail Mark If Spam script can mark the spam messages as read e The Purchase window now makes it more clear when a serial number has been accepted 211 In the Statistics window Set is now Set Date and Copy is now Copy Stats Fixed crash that could happen when processing messages in Japanese encodings Added Japanese localization 2 1 1 January 8 2004 Much faster at processing messages when there are many blocklist and whitelist rules Also improved the speed of loading deleting and sorting rules Improved accuracy tracking with the Panther version of Apple Mail previously SpamSieve couldn t always tell when it was being corrected Catches more spam because it knows about more spam
334. tting it replace the existing scripts should cure things e Improved name and serial number entry e The Edit Log command is no longer an alternate menu item e Can now load Entourage addresses when Launch Services can t find Entourage e The default classifier reports better scores 205 e The behavior of the default classifier if no rules or other classifiers match and the Bayesian classifier is disabled may now be changed by setting the DefaultIsGood default Normally this is YES but you can set it to NO to make SpamSieve treat all non whitelisted messages as spam e Pruning now is recorded in the log e Updated the Russian localization e Added Swedish and Vietnamese localizations e Expanded and improved the manual e The Entourage scripts no longer mark messages with multiple copies of the same category e Fixed bug where SpamSieve would sometimes incorrectly think that it had made a mistake if auto training was on and the user had asked it to reclassify a message e Fixed bug in the Change Settings scripts e No longer reports an error when trying to reset an empty initial corpus e Fixed crash when quitting after resetting an empty corpus e Fixed bug where SpamSieve would crash when reading a damaged corpus file e Worked around OS bug that could cause crashes when creating the Uncertain Junk category in Entourage e Notification dismissal now works on Tiger e Apple Mail s scripts are now installed in the cor
335. tware If SpamSieve s corpus file or history database is damaged you can now hold down the Command and Option keys at launch to reset them Growl notifications are now posted from a background thread to speed up message filtering Fixed bug where the open panel for the Import Addresses command was slow Worked around a problem that could cause corruption of SpamSieve s Entourage scripts Fixed rare crash when processing HTML messages If SpamSieve is unable to install its Apple Mail plug in it now does a better job of helping you complete the installation manually Integration with Apple Mail and Entourage no longer relies on the mydefaults command line tool since it had some limitations and there were occasional problems installing it The software updater is better at handling invalid downloads folders Added Dutch localization and updated the other localizations 2 6 5 November 14 2007 Now requires Mac OS X 10 3 or later Made various accuracy improvements Added high resolution version of the application icon Adjusted the appearance of the status indicators e G S for better visibility in the Leopard Dock Updated the default whitelist rules Updated documentation for Mac OS X 10 5 Updated to PCRE 7 4 Improved compatibility with pre release versions of Entourage 2008 The Train as Good command in Apple Mail now recognizes spam mailboxes whose names end with Spam and it works with the Trash mailbox
336. ule described in Setting Up GyazMail MailMate Uncheck SpamSieve described in Setting Up MailMate Mailsmith Uncheck Use SpamSieve described in Setting Up Mailsmith Outlook 2016 Delete the SpamSieve script files in the folder Users lt username gt Library Scripts Applications Microsoft Outlook Outlook 2011 Delete the SpamSieve script files that are located in the Outlook Script Menu Items folder inside Microsoft User Data which is probably in your Documents folder Additional scripts are located in the folder Users lt username gt Library Application Support Microsoft O0ffice Outlook Script Menu Items See the How can I open the Library folder section for how to get to this folder Postbox Choose Add ons from Postbox s Tools menu Click the remove button next to SpamSieve Postbox Plug in PowerMail Go to the Spam filter assistant described in Setting Up PowerMail 16 Removing SpamSieve s Data Files You can optionally delete SpamSieve s data files which are stored at Users lt username gt Library Application Support SpamSieve Users lt username gt Library Preferences com c command SpamSieve plist Users lt username gt Library Logs SpamSieve See the How can I open the Library folder section If you delete these files you will have to re train SpamSieve if you reinstall it Legacy Mail Programs These are the files to remove for other mail programs Emailer The scripts are located in
337. ve If you wish to intentionally skew the data you can check one or both boxes to allow duplicates 95 6 3 2 Auto train with incoming mail This option causes SpamSieve to automatically train itself with newly received messages based on their predicted categories The whitelist will stay up to date so that messages from previous correspondents are never marked as spam Also after the initial training you would only need to train SpamSieve to correct its mistakes It would automatically learn from the other new messages as needed trying to keep a proper balance of good and spam messages in the corpus As the corpus increases in size the rate of auto training will automatically decrease to prevent it from growing too large Most SpamSieve users should keep auto training on at all times Reasons that you might turn it off include Testing Purposes If you re trying to figure out why SpamSieve is processing a certain kind of message in a certain way turning off auto training reduces the interactions among SpamSieve s components and makes it easier to see what s happening Unable to Correct Mistakes When auto training is enabled it is imperative that you correct SpamSieve when it makes a mistake otherwise it will learn things that aren t true and begin making predictions based on that incorrect information If your mail program and filters are set up such that you cannot tell when SpamSieve has made a mistake or if you can see
338. ver to delete spam messages before your e mail program can download them This is a clunky approach to catch all the spam messages you have to run the program right before your regular e mail program checks for mail This is difficult to time properly if you check your mail often and even so you may download some messages that weren t filtered You will also download every good message twice The anti spam software may let you see the messages that it filtered out so that you can verify that there were no false positives However you have to do this using its interface not your e mail program s which is typically nicer And if there was a false positive you then have to transfer it into your e mail program so that you can file and reply to it Client Side Proxies This is like a client side filter except that the proxy downloads messages once and stores them locally The e mail program then downloads the good messages from the proxy This addresses the timing and double download problems of client side filters but interaction with the filter is still awkward because it happens outside your e mail program In addition you lose some control over the connections to the mail server and which messages are left on the server Client Side Integrated This category includes SpamSieve and Apple Mail s built in spam filter Suspected spam messages are moved to a separate folder which you can quickly scan at your leisure to make sure there ar
339. warn you if it looks like its Apple Mail plug in has been damaged by an application slimming utility This could lead to Mail continually reporting that the plug in was incompatible e SpamSieve will now complain if it looks like you ve manually installed the Apple Mail plug in in the wrong folder instead of using SpamSieve s installer e Made a change to try to work around a bug in Apple Mail that could make training a message as good create a duplicate copy of the message e Improved the Purchase window to reduce confusion about the demo period serial numbers and the number of seats that you ve purchased e Modernized the Software Update window and code e Changed the way the Software Update feature finds the downloads folder on Mac OS X 10 5 and later because sometimes the one that Internet Config returned would be invalid or unwanted e Fixed a bug where SpamSieve would crash when processing certain invalid URLs e Fixed an error where a newly added whitelist blocklist rule might not be auto selected e Removed the Dutch Italian and Portuguese localizations because they were out of date If you would like to update the translation for one of these languages please contact spamsieveQc command com 249mailto spamsieve c command com 192 2 7 7 October 20 2009 Improved compatibility with pre release versions of Mac OS X Made some changes to improve SpamSieve s filtering accuracy Fixed a bug where the
340. when SpamSieve can t connect to the update server Removed the Option key workaround to have SpamSieve try to update the Apple Mail plug in s Info plist file based on installed version of Mail because it s no longer effective Fixed a bug reporting an error from running a compiled AppleScript Improved the crash reporter Fixed a crash when reporting file errors We need help keeping SpamSieve s Japanese localization up to date Please contact spamsieveQc command com if you re interested 2 9 15 June 30 2014 Works with Apple Mail under Mac OS X 10 9 4218 It s easiest if you update to SpamSieve 2 9 15 before updating to Mac OS X 10 9 4 In any case if you don t see the SpamSieve commands in Apple Mail s Message menu be sure to choose Install Apple Mail Plug In from the SpamSieve menu Otherwise with the SpamSieve plug in not installed Mail will move good messages to the spam mailbox without consulting SpamSieve Improved compatibility with pre release versions of Mac OS X 10 10 Yosemite Made various changes to improve SpamSieve s filtering accuracy SpamSieve now requires Mac OS X 10 6 8 or later Versions of SpamSieve for Mac OS X 10 5 and earlier are available Modernized lots of code and removed old code that s no longer needed for compatibility with legacy OS versions Made changes so that SpamSieve launches faster especially when cfprefsd is slow to respond Added the Why are messages marked as spam
341. y 41 4 You should now be able to check for mail and Mail will be using IMAP instead of POP There will be two sets of mailboxes Inbox Sent etc in the main window If desired you can go to each of these mailboxes and Option drag the messages from the old mailboxes to the IMAP ones Holding down the Option key when dragging the messages will cause Mail to copy the messages to the IMAP server Your original messages will remain in the POP mailboxes on your Mac in case something goes wrong 5 Go back to Mail s Preferences window click on the POP account and click the Advanced tab Then uncheck Enable this account You will be using the new IMAP account instead although the old POP settings and any messages that you didn t transfer to the IMAP mailboxes will still be available should you want to go back to the old setup 6 On your iOS device tap on Settings gt Mail Contacts Calendars For each of your accounts tap on the account name At the top of the account settings it should say IMAP or Exchange If it says POP you will need to deactivate that account on the iPhone by sliding the switch next to the Mail setting and then choose Add Account to re add your account as IMAP or Exchange 3 14 2 Recommended Mail Hosts For best results with SpamSieve and for e mail in general we recommend a mail host that Supports IMAP or Exchange This will keep your mailboxes and messages synchronized across multiple devices and let you use
342. your Mac or by changing the Energy Saver settings so that your Mac will not to go to sleep automatically Additional customizations are described below 4 6 1 Faster Apple Mail Training Mac OS X 10 11 and 10 10 The issue described below for Mac OS X 10 9 rarely affects later versions but there are still some cases where Mail is slow at moving messages when you train them as spam or as good To speed up the training you can enable the workarounds by using these special esoteric preferences links AppleMailTrainSpamGUIScripting Yosemite Click this link to enable the workaround for making SpamSieve Train as Spam faster The first time you try to train a message SpamSieve will ask you to give it accessibility privileges Then it will ask you to add your Spam mailbox as a favorite in Mail Thereafter it will move the trained messages via GUI scripting If an error occurs SpamSieve will move the message via the more reliable but slower method Click this link to disable AppleMailTrainGoodG UIScripting Yosemite 69x spamsieve default k AppleMailTrainSpamGUIScriptingYosemite amp v YES 70x spamsieve default k AppleMailTrainSpamGUIScriptingYosemite amp v NO 51 Click this link to enable the workaround for making SpamSieve Train as Good faster SpamSieve it will ask you to add your inbox as a favorite in Mail Trained messages will now move to the inbox that you added in the favorites bar whereas without the workaround
343. ype of spam message is evading SpamSieve Even if the setup initially worked it can become incorrect over time due to file corruption or iCloud syncing problems This section will help you to fix such setup problems yourself You can also ask for help if you need additional assistance 1 When you receive new messages the mail program needs to send them to SpamSieve for analysis To make sure that it s set up to do this find the Checking the lt Mail Client gt Setup section below that corresponds to your mail program and follow the instructions in that section 2 The mail program will only apply SpamSieve and your other rules to messages that arrive in the Mac s inbox and are unread e Are you reading the messages on a phone or other computer before your Mac sees them e Do you have rules set up on your mail server that move the messages out of the inbox e Is a server junk filter moving the messages to a Junk mailbox 3 SpamSieve keeps a log of all the messages that it examined and why it thought they were good or spam The Open Log section describes how the log can tell you whether a spam message was missed because of the mail program s settings SpamSieve s settings or SpamSieve s training 4 The mail program may be having trouble communicating with SpamSieve To check for commu nication errors see the Sending in an Error Report section 5 For the best filtering accuracy SpamSieve needs to be properly trained e The C
344. ystems This software requires people who send you mail to prove that they are human and not an automated spam sending program After sending you a message they get a reply asking them to complete a task that is easy for humans but hard for computers Only then is the message passed on to you This system is a nuisance for senders delays your reception of the mail and becomes impractical when sending messages to a group of people Also challenge response systems cannot deal with spoofed senders or legitimate messages that are sent by programs Server Side Filters This software runs on mail servers and often filters out spam before you ever see it This means that you do not have to download the spam messages that it catches However some spam messages may still get through and unless the filter is perfect a few legitimate messages will not These could be important messages and you will never know that you lost them Server Side Taggers This variant of server side filters does not delete possible spam messages before you download them Instead you download every message and configure your e mail program to move messages that were tagged by the filter into a separate spam folder This eliminates the major disadvantage of server side filters lost messages however this type of filter is generally not as accurate as the ones below because it does not adapt to your own mail Client Side Filters This software connects to your mail ser

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