Spamfire: Extra spam protection for Apple Mail
Spamfire is an anti-spam app that stands between your server and Apple Mail, filtering your email and offering additional protection from spam for IMAP and POP accounts.
It uses Bayesian filters which detect spam on a word-for-word frequency basis. This can complement Apple Mail’s inbuilt spam filter which uses a slightly different approach, known as “Latent Semantic Analysis”.
When Spamfire installs, it makes a number of changes to Mail.app’s settings in order to insert itself as a proxy between Mail and your mail servers. It then filters your email before it gets to Mail. A screenshot shows the results from Spamfire’s filtering into Good, Probable, Borderline and Spam categories:
Spamfire is fully Tiger-compatible. A licence costs USD 39.95 and includes a twelve month renewable subscription for filter updates. You can download a fully-functional demo from the developer’s website.
Last month’s latest update (2.1.1) featured a host of improvements.
I find that Apple Mail’s inbuilt filter and server-side filters do the job for me. Rarely do I see more than one spam email a week in my Inbox. But you may get more. If so, Spamfire or one of the other third-party spam catchers, JunkMatcher, SpamSieve or Personal Antispam, could be for you. (Gandalf prefers SpamSieve).
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