I’ve been using Spamsieve forever. More recently I’m wondering though if I should get rid of it and rely on server/client side filtering instead. It’s currently running on a Mac Mini server and protecting six email accounts (plus many more forwarding to those six).
What makes me contemplating its usefulness (or whether it’s just nostalgia keeping it) is that I see more and more stuff that I think it should have easily filtered. Prime example: Each week I get at least one or two messages from “friendly” folks who offer up their services to improve one or the other of the websites I’m running. Every.Single.Time these messages make it through Spamsieve, and each time I dutifully mark them as spamsieve, just to see more pop up the following week. I guess I could just turn it off and turn local spam filtering back on to test it but I’m curious whether a) folks here still use Spamsieve and b) what their experience has been lately.
I use SpamSieve and it works well here.
I also receive such mails and almost all are filtered by SpamSieve. No problem for me to teach SpamSieve about unrecognised spam mails.
Maybe you contact the developer, Michael, and ask for support. Also here.
Yeah, it’s good to go through the checklist, as often there’s a simple fix like making sure SpamSieve is able to see the messages in question and that SpamSieve isn’t deliberately letting the messages through because the sender is accidentally in your Contacts. The version linked here is a little newer than what’s built into the release version of the app. Or, if you need more help, you can send in a diagnostic report and we’ll take a look.
I was on vacation for a few days recently when my Mac wasn’t running, and I was only checking email on my iPhone. For a while I was wondering why I was suddenly getting so much more spam than I had been at home! Then I realized the answer – SpamSieve wasn’t running! So that pretty much answered the question for me.
