I don’t get a lot of spam, as I actively try to keep most of my email addresses off the internet (and thus keeping them away from screenscrapers). Some of my accounts (I have 8+) are relatively immune, as they’ve never been signed up to email lists or given out to more than a few people.
But I’m not immune. I get about 50-100/week. Apple Mail’s filters have been doing a good job, but lately in the past few months about 5 get through a day, not counting the rules I had to create to eliminate spam from people like (spammers) LawCrossing or Affluence.org who refuse to actually remove people when requested.
So one quick search and a trip to Hawk Wings and enter SpamSieve for a test run. Only one day into it, but it is getting trained up and doing a pretty awesome job so far. It uses a different type of filtering (Bayesian) than Apple Mail so that’s part of the trick.
It also has a handy guide to integrating it with your iPhone (though it involves leaving a computer running back at home…).
I’ll give it a go over the next 30 day trial period to see how it goes.
[...] Now that I’m leaving it behind more, I now can see some limited need to leave my laptop on and be able to access it from my phone, even if just to access files or to have it as a spam filter. [...]