SpamSieve 2.7.5

SpamSieve 2.7.5 is an effective program which gives you back your inbox by bringing powerful Bayesian spam filtering to popular e-mail clients.

It 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 you train it with more messages.

SpamSieve doesn't delete any messages--it only marks them in your e-mail client--so you'll never lose any mail. SpamSieve works with any number of mail accounts, of whatever types are supported by your e-mail software (e.g. POP, IMAP, Hotmail, AOL).

Major Features:

1. 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 clients include Bayesian filters, but SpamSieve is more accurate.
2. Integrates with your e-mail client for a superior user experience. Plus, you get the same great filtering if you ever switch e-mail clients or use more than one at a time.
3. 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.
4. Automatically maintains a blocklist so that it can instantly adapt to spam messages sent from particular addresses, and catch 100% of them.
5. 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.
6. You can customize the whitelist and blocklist, adding sophisticated rules that match various message headers, or the message body. The rules can match text in a variety of ways, including using regular expressions.
7. Can use the Habeas Safelist, which indicates messages that are not spam, as well as the "ADV" subject tag indicating that a message is spam.
8. 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.
9. SpamSieve keeps track of how accurate it is, how many good and spam messages you receive, and how these numbers change over time.
10. Turn off new-mail notification in your e-mail client, and let SpamSieve notify you only when you receive non-spam messages.
11. The corpus window and log let you see how each spam message was caught.

Enhancements:

• 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 appear empty when 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 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.

Requirements:

• Apple Mail from Mac OS X 10.4 and later.
• 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.
• GyazMail 1.2.0 and later (1.5.8 recommended).
• Mailsmith 1.5 and later (2.1.5 or 2.2 recommended) from Bare Bones Software.
• Outlook Express 5.0 and later from Microsoft.
• PowerMail 4.0 and later (6.x recommended) from CTM Development.
• Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 or 2.x from Mozilla, and Mac OS X 10.4 or later. SpamSieve does not work with Thunderbird 3 (which is in pre-release).