Programtipset: Ta hand om spam med SpamSieve

av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 7, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, Tipset: Appar och Program

SpamSieve är enkelt att installera. De flesta e-postprogram har direktstöd för SpamSieve. Programmet uppdateras automatiskt om du ställer in det. Då uppdateras filter och regler i programmet. Du kan komplettera reglerna genom att lära SpamSieve genom att skilja mellan spam och e-post som inte är spam.

SpamSieve is a robust spam filter for major email clients that uses powerful Bayesian spam filtering.

SpamSieve understands what your spam looks like in order to block it all, but also learns what your legitimate messages look like to avoid confusion. SpamSieve only marks spam in your email client so you never lose any mail.

The following is a partial list of SpamSieve’s features, so that you can quickly see what it can do and how it’s unique:

• 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
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What’s new in version 3.1.1

Highlights

• Made various changes to improve SpamSieve’s filtering accuracy.
• When a supported mail client is the frontmost app, the first item of the SpamSieve icon menu, instead of being a static label, now opens the setup instructions for that mail client.
• The training commands in the Message menu in the SpamSieve icon menu now work when SpamSieve is not the frontmost app. The original thinking was to disable these, because people would use the hotkeys or the more convenient top-level menu commands for this purpose, but it turns out that many people prefer to use the Message submenu.
• Working with large selections in the Corpus, Allowlist, Blocklist, and Log windows is much faster and uses less memory. Now SpamSieve waits to load the selected items until you actually do something with them, and then it does so in batches to that they don’t all need to be stored in memory at the same time.

Apple Mail

• The Filter Messages hotkey (Command-Control-L) was originally intended for use with the Mail extension, but it is now also available when using the Mail plug-in setup.
• Fixed a bug where, if you went on vacation and didn’t launch Mail for a week, when you got back to lots of new messages SpamSieve might not filter some of them because it would see them as old.
• Worked around a Mail bug where a message might disappear when trained as good instead of moving to the inbox. (If messages ever disappear, you can recover them from the Log window.)
• When training a message as good and moving it to the inbox, if multiple mail accounts have the same e-mail address that matches the message, SpamSieve now prefers the inbox of the account that the message is already in.
• SpamSieve now reports an error if multiple Mail accounts have the same name, as that can prevent filtering from working.
• If SpamSieve can’t find an account’s Junk mailbox when training a message as spam, it now reports an error that shows the name of the problematic account.

General

• You can now close the Settings window by pressing the Esc key.
• When you click an esoteric preferences link to enable or disable debug logging, the change now takes effect immediately, without having to restart SpamSieve.
• Worked around several macOS bugs that could cause crashes when trying to access the Contacts database.
• Diagnostic report files are much smaller, as they no longer include excerpts from the verbose system console log, only from SpamSieve’s own log files.
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur when updating the log after training a message.
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur when reporting an error about a database that couldn’t be saved.
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur because the Bayesian classifier’s internal state was invalid.

Documentation

• SpamSieve 3.1 introduced a workaround of opening help pages in the user’s Web browser because the system help viewer doesn’t work properly on macOS 15.
  • Fixed a bug where help pages could open in a text editor instead of in your browser if you’d changed the default opener for .htmlfiles.
  • You can now hold down the Option key when clicking a help link to switch between using a Web browser and using the help viewer, e.g. if you prefer the non-default behavior for your version of macOS or to test whether the help viewer is working properly.
• Fixed the PowerMail help links in the Settings ‣ Other Clients window.
• Improved the following sections of the manual:
  • Correct All Mistakes
  • Filter spam messages in other mailboxes
  • Log
  • Prune full message data in log
  • Setting Up Airmail
  • Turning Off the Yahoo Mail Spam Filter
  • Why do good messages keep going to the Junk or Spam mailbox?
  • Why do good messages move to the wrong inbox when trained in Apple Mail?
  • Why is SpamSieve not catching my spam?