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 Preferences 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.
- Eudora
- Open Eudora’s Junk Mail settings and make sure that Mail isn’t
junk if the sender is in an address book is checked. Eudora
automatically adds your recipients to its History List, which is
considered to be part of the address book.
- Mailsmith
- Create a rule that uses this AppleScript
to add your sent messages’ recipients to SpamSieve’s whitelist.
- PowerMail
- Create an outgoing filter that uses this AppleScript
to add your messages’ recipients to SpamSieve’s whitelist.
- Thunderbird
- Select Do not mark mail as junk if the sender is in Collected
Addresses in Thunderbird’s Account Settings window.
For Apple Mail, Eudora, and Thunderbird 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.