For added safety, you can specify that addresses that you’ve sent mail
to will never send you spam. To do this in:
- Apple Mail
Open the Rules section of Mail’s Settings window and create a new
rule called Previous Recipients. Change the condition that says Every
Message to Sender is in my Previous Recipients.
- If you set the rule’s action to Stop evaluating rules, that
will prevent the SpamSieve Mail extension from seeing the messages.
However, SpamSieve could still process it via the Check inboxes
for new messages not sent to Mail extension or Filter spam
messages in other mailboxes features.
- If you set the rule’s action to Move Message and choose a
destination mailbox that is not chosen in the Select Mailboxes to
Filter… sheet, that will completely prevent SpamSieve from seeing
the message.
- Apple Mail (Plug-In)
- Open the Rules section of Mail’s Settings window and edit
the SpamSieve rule. Change the condition that says Every
Message to Sender is not in my Previous Recipients. Mail will
then assume that such messages are good, without showing them to
SpamSieve.
- Entourage
- Create an outgoing rule that uses this AppleScript
to add your messages’ recipients to SpamSieve’s whitelist.
- Mailsmith
- Create a rule that uses this AppleScript
to add your sent messages’ recipients to SpamSieve’s whitelist.
- Outlook 2011
- Create an outgoing rule that uses this AppleScript
to add your messages’ recipients to SpamSieve’s whitelist.
- Postbox
- Select Do not mark mail as junk if the sender is in Collected
Addresses in Postbox’s Accounts preferences.
- PowerMail
- Create an outgoing filter that uses this AppleScript
to add your messages’ recipients to SpamSieve’s allowlist.
For Apple Mail and Postbox the above settings will completely hide these
messages from SpamSieve. Thus:
- You might not want to do this if you regularly receive spam
messages that are forged so as to appear as though they
were sent from one of your previous correspondents. SpamSieve
won’t see the messages, so it will have no chance of catching
them.
- SpamSieve will not be able to auto-train itself with these
messages. You should be sure to manually train it with some
examples of these messages, so that it has seen some examples
of good messages with this type of content.