I know that SpamSieve has had many recommendations from important computer people just the latest I saw was Ric Ford of MacInTouch fame.įor the last 6 days, I have had SpamSieve 2.9.19 and now 2.9.20 installed on my MacBook Pro running OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 public beta 4 and Mail 8.2 (2100) with the SpamSieve Mail plugin 1.8.2. I thought finding a way to filter out the spam would make my email’s mailboxes manageable. I am testing SpamSieve because I am getting an incredible amount of spam daily and changing my email address would be complicated to accomplish. So:Ĭan I get SpamSieve to automatically learn to block domains and not always create rules which only matched an auto-generated user? Is there some setting I missed which would get SpamSieve to block a domain once several spam emails have been sent and trained? It would take a tremendous amount of my time for me to inspect the black list and add domains by hand. Since spammers send out thousands of spam emails using the same domain but auto-generated user names, most of the 263 spam messages today did not match anything in the Blocked List even though they were from the same domain. I looked at the Blocked List and nearly every entry is an exact match rather than a contains match. Many of the spam messages today have subjects identical to previous spam and/or have arrived from the same domain with different auto-generated user names. SpamSieve has generated 572 Black List rules and 387 White List rules so far but just today I have had another 263 spam messages which I had to train as spam. Since the script works sequentially and thisĪppears before the check for the ‘X-spam-warning’ header.I installed SpamSieve 2.9.20b4 in Apple Mail 8.2 (2100) on my MacBook Pro running Apple’s OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 public beta 4 on a trial basis several days ago. White lists specifically by email domain.Ī cmu.edu domain goes to my Inbox, even if There’s no way to recover discardedĬareful with your search clause if you use discard. My ‘black list’ to be deleted automatically as it ‘From’ header and can thus contain a name, a domain, My ‘white list’ to go directly to my INBOX Using (Mulberry, Outlook, webmail.andrew, etc.) and without Script so that the BCCs get filed regardless of which Programs can file BCCs into a folder for you, but I do it The below section automatically puts it in a BCC folder. In the case of a computing emergency please contact Ken Reply sent to any email from a *cmu.edu address) Generates the auto-replies that are sent when I’m on vacation: Delete both ends to activate vacation script Whitespace, so you can insert blank lines for readabilityĬomment region. Has to be the first line, and tells the server which Provide support for writing scripts- this one is only provided as an exampleįor those interested in pursuing script writing on their own. Not copy this script directly- make the appropriate changes for your account,Īnd only attempt this if you’re familiar with script writing. INBOX.Greylist daily for extra legitimate items.īelow is a template version of the script Drew used. This keeps my INBOX very clean, and I then check Gets deleted automatically, and a ‘greylist’ of everything else that goes to aįolder INBOX.Greylist. I have a ‘whitelist’ of addresses that go to my INBOX, a ‘blacklist’ (spam) that Generate automatic replies for when you’re on vacation. You can use the MyAndrew web site to edit the sieve scriptĭirectly to, for example, delete spam outright (rather than file it into aįolder) or introduce additional layers of filtering. For additional information on Sieve scripting, see this general link from Cyrusoft or the actual RFC specification. Server, as opposed to a ‘client-side’ script solution that runs only when you check Itself and processes messages as they arrive at the mail Sieve is a scripting language that runs on the mail server When you enable spam filtering, a Sieve scrip isĬreated that looks for that header and re-routes such messages to Likelihood that a message is spam, and marks likely spam with the extra header This filter uses a variety of heuristics to determine the Technical details on Carnegie Mellon’s spam filteringĬarnegie Mellon runs a commercial spam filter called ‘SpamĪssassin’. The spam filter doesn’t catch all spam, but catches Still need to periodically check this folder for legitimate email that wasĪccidentally marked as spam, and delete the other messages to keep them fromįilling your quota. Potential spam will now be re-routed to your INBOX.spam folder. Check the ‘Enable Spam Filtering’ box and click the On the left under ‘E-mail Options’ click ‘Mail Filtering and Log in with your Andrew ID and password, click ‘Folders’, create a folderĬalled ‘spam’ as a subfolder of ‘INBOX’ and click Create.
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