SPAM Filter Recommendation For Outlook 2016 For A Novice

[Peter Natscher]

Hi Mac Forum Group,

In have been getting a lot of SPAM lately in my Outlook 2016 Inbox. About 200 per day and it all has a domain ending with .us . Is there a way I can automatically get this stuff deleted? My ISP can't help. I'm not sure how to set up a rule in Outlook to do this. The emails all have compound domains like @abcdvx.efghua.us . Is there a SPAM app that I can get to do this job?

Thanks,
Peter

 

[Slydude]

Take a look at SpamSieve. It works with several Mac mail programs including Outlook. I haven't used it personally but it seems to be well thought of.

 

[Randy B. Singer]

Take a look at SpamSieve. It works with several Mac mail programs including Outlook. I haven't used it personally but it seems to be well thought of.

Because I have about a half dozen Web sites, which get harvested for my e-mail address by bots, I receive as many as 100 spam messages a day. I found the built-in anti-spam capabilities of Apple's Mail to be insufficient to deal with this. So I purchased and installed SpamSieve.

If you want to deal with spam effectively, without any risk of losing legitimate e-mails, I can't recommend SpamSieve enough:

SpamSieve ($30)
http://c-command.com/spamsieve/

Review:
http://www.macworld.com/article/301...ve-spam-filter-for-your-mac-email-client.html

Set up is extremely easy. To start off, you choose a bunch of spam e-mails in your e-mail program and mark them as spam. Then you choose a bunch of your typical non-spam e-mails and mark them as non-spam. SpamSieve automatically analyzes both samples and looks for things common to the spam that you receive, and things common to the non-spam that you receive, and it creates a series of filters to form a blacklist and a whitelist. From then on when you get a spam message in your in-box you mark it as spam, and SpamSieve adjusts it's filters. You do the same for non-spam that shows up in your Spam folder. In just a few weeks SpamSieve becomes amazingly accurate. All of my spam messages get filtered into my Spam folder like magic for me to review and trash.

See:
http://c-command.com/spamsieve/help/identifying-spam

The best thing is that since SpamSieve is adaptive, and it doesn't run off of a database that its developers created, spammers can't change their addresses or writing style to defeat SpamSieve's effectiveness.

Currently, according to SpamSieve's statistics, I'm receiving an average of 60 spam message a day, and SpamSieve has been 99.8% accurate at sorting them!

According to C-Command's Web site, it is compatible with Outlook.

 

[Peter Natscher]

Thanks, Randy! I'll try SpamSieve.

Peter

 

[Randy B. Singer]

Thanks, Randy! I'll try SpamSieve.

Peter

I don't think that you will be disappointed. I think that SpamSieve is one of four or five must-have applications for the Macintosh that I immediately install when I get a new Mac.

Enjoy!

 

[Dogbreath]

Great thread. OP asked and Randy delivered. I purchased/installed SpamSieve last night and set it up in no time since I was having similar email issues with Mac Mail. This SS software is teaching itself with an excellent report card thus far.

Brent

 

[pigoo3]

I may have to "bite the bullet" and get Spamsieve. Free solutions/apps just aren't cuttting it.

I'm not running a half dozen websites like Randy...but do get what seems to be close to 575-100 spam emails each day. I do have multiple active email accounts (some of them as much as 20+ years old). If there's a spam list out there...those email accounts are probably on it!

- Nick

 

[Dogbreath]

I installed and have used SpamSieve for about a month now. IMHO SS is a fantastic Mail Mail plug-in which takes away the burden of dealing with large volumes of spam quickly and easily...definitely worth the money. A+ report card.

I am in no way affiliated with C-Command. I just wanted to share my experience with advice given earlier in this thread.

Brent

 

[harryb2448]

One concern Randy. It (strongly) suggests IMAP. Down Under most ISPs are still using POP3.

In your opinion will it work as well on POP3?

 

[Randy B. Singer]

One concern Randy. It (strongly) suggests IMAP. Down Under most ISPs are still using POP3.

In your opinion will it work as well on POP3?

It's not an opinion. SpamSieve works perfectly with POP3 accounts. I have three POP3 accounts, and receive a ton of spam, and SpamSieve has been over 99% effective.

If you look at the C-command Web site carefully you will find that an IMAP account isn't recommended in general, it is only recommended if you are using your Mac to keep spam off of your iPhone or iPad.
https://c-command.com/spamsieve/help/iphone-spam-filtering

SpamSieve is a homerun product for the Macintosh. It has been around for many years, and it is well known to, and recommended by, any long-time Macintosh expert. C-command also has excellent support.

 

[c_command]

It's not an opinion. SpamSieve works perfectly with POP3 accounts. I have three POP3 accounts, and receive a ton of spam, and SpamSieve has been over 99% effective.

If you look at the C-command Web site carefully you will find that an IMAP account isn't recommended in general, it is only recommended if you are using your Mac to keep spam off of your iPhone or iPad.

Thanks for recommending SpamSieve! I just found this thread and wanted to clarify that IMAP is definitely recommended for use with SpamSieve and is by far the most common configuration. POP and Exchange work, too. It doesn’t matter to SpamSieve. The only restriction is that POP (in general, not SpamSieve-specific) doesn’t support syncing, so spam messages that the Mac moves out of the inbox would still be in the inbox on an iPhone.

--Michael (SpamSieve developer)

 

[pm-r]

Thanks for recommending SpamSieve!

Welcome aboard to the mac-forums even if the thread is 1 1/2 years old but your info is still informative for those who caught it.

I must admit that the last time I enjoyed my use of SpamSieve was when I was still able to run Eudora. That's a long history run assuming its the same application.





- Patrick
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[harryb2448]

SpamSieve being run in trial mode does a great job sorting mail, but it needs manually moving each and every junk email, over 100 a day, individually to the Junk Mail box. The developers tell me there is an Applescript available to do this automatically, but it needs to reside in Applications Library and, I presume, this mwould need openinmg at least daily to remove the junk. Is this so?

 

[Randy B. Singer]

SpamSieve being run in trial mode does a great job sorting mail, but it needs manually moving each and every junk email, over 100 a day, individually to the Junk Mail box.

No, this isn't at all how SpamSieve works. Please read the instructions for the program completely. and then come back if you have any questions.