SpamSieve Testimonials (General)

Thanks for not only making the best kick ass spam program on the planet, but for really making it accessible and easy for businessmen and women to keep up with the changes.

Just a quick note to say that how happy and satisfied I am with SpamSieve! I’ve been using SpamSieve for about seven months now, and it has absolutely conquered my spam problem. Thank you for improving the quality of my life!

You guys deserve a Congressional Medal of Honor!

The absolute best piece of software I have ever used in more than 25 years of computing. I don’t know how you do it but it is the best.

I installed SpamSieve 2.6.3 about 10 days ago and purchased today. This software has literally changed my business!! Our Web site receives over a million hits per month with many e-mail accounts listed online, so we have been “targeted” by just about anyone that could spell “spam” !! Within 2 short days I went from receiving hundreds (many times close to a thousand +) of spam e-mails to ZERO !!!!!!! My time can now be spent on production rather than dealing with the people that “have too much time on their hands.”

Thanks a Million for this product !!!

Just want to say that SpamSieve is the best piece of software I have ever purchased. I’m up to 99.4% accuracy. I send the highest rated spam straight to the bin and just check around two per day in the spam folder. Apart from that, I have completely forgotten about spam.

Thank you for developing this software.

So far today, I have received 245 spam e-mails and it’s only 5 PM. All but one of them were caught by Spam Sieve.

Before I installed Spam Sieve, I would have had to manually tag at least 25 or 30 of them as spam. They would sneak into my inbox in the middle of the day, one at a time, and pull me away from other things when they set off the new mail notifier. NO MORE. I seriously can’t tell you how this has changed the way I feel about my Inbox. I don’t dread e-mail anymore. And I don’t give in to the anger and hate I used to feel for spammers anymore. I don’t even need to think about them. Spammers? What spammers? They don’t get to e-mail me anymore. Wow.

Thank you.

Best $30 I’ve ever spent on software.

I thought Apple’s built-in spam handling was probably as good as it got, but one of my employees started using SpamSieve on our support mailboxes, to deal with the 600+ spam messages we’re getting a day—it works way better than Mail.application, and with better accuracy than if I hired someone to sort spam, honestly.

SpamSieve is the best spam filter I've ever used in my life, and it's made my e-mail reading much more efficient and pleasant than it once was.

I have to say that Spam Sieve is incredible! At this point, after training, it is sorting through thousands of messages and only missing 1–2 per thousand with no good messages being called spam in error! You were also incredibly responsive in helping with the one problem I had in the beginning. Thanks for making something so good and easy to use and feel free to quote me.

I don’t know who sold me out to the spammers, but SpamSieve saved my life! It catches over 350 spam messages every day! Those used to come straight into my Inbox…can you imagine the time it saves!? I may be naming my child SpamSieve Fitch!!

This is one of the best supported, best updated, best working programs I’ve ever used. You’re proactive in letting us know about updates and the program really REALLY works.

I have been a Mac user since the late 80s. I am a free-lance wildlife photographer and use lots of programs like Photoshop, etc., and have dealt with many, many software folks over the years. Let me say that it is very refreshing to have someone such as yourself who actually communicates with users. I am so weary of spending countless hours on the phone trying to get through to a real person at the vast majority of software companies, or of sending e-mails for help that are never responded to. I sent one email for some corpus clarification when I first installed SpamSieve and you responded immediately. Anyway, I certainly appreciate your service and I am sure others do as well.

Just an e-mail thanking you for this excellent product. It would be impossible for me to quantify the time and money saved by using SpamSieve. It’s pretty ironic that for some I have referred this product to have balked at the cost, being that they constantly bemoan the amount of junk mail they deal with, and the fear of accidentally deleting vital business communications.

I have been using Spam Sieve for the last 4 months and it has pretty much eliminated the spam problem. It has blocked 99.8% of spam from getting to my inbox.

[SpamSieve] does its work quietly, cleanly, with absolutely no intrusion.…Possibly the best money I've ever spent for shareware.

I have only had your product for a few days but WOW! Seamless, smooth, accurate and eeeeeeeeeeeeeasy. Wonderful software.

Your program has been successful in filtering out the bad stuff and keeping my potential new clients. Kudos!!!

Just want to thank you for the MOST useful piece of software I use. I’ve never purchased shareware…until now.

Currently, my SpamSieve stats show 99.9% accuracy with only 5 false positives since last Sept. None of these false positives have occured this year.

Every morning I could look forward to receiving mail from spammers and feel the frustration of having to highlight 50–60 spam e-mails that Mail didn’t filter and press JUNK. Now, with SpamSieve doing such a great job of filtering, i discovered that I get hardly any legitimate mail any more.

It makes me feel like I don’t have any friends. :-(

Thank you so much for your incredibly amazing program. By the way, your instructions are brilliant as well.

I know I certainly have found SpamSieve to be the MOST worthwhile 3rd party software I’ve ever invested in! I receive over 100 SPAMs each day…I’m just too stubborn to change my e-mail address. I continue to tell my friends how great SpamSieve is, and I continue to bemoan that SpamSieve isn’t available for Outlook Express in Windows so my PC friends can enjoy it as well!

I used SpamFire for a long time, and had a bit of a love/hate relationship with it, so I recently switched to SpamSieve. Great software! Much more intelligent and far better designed than SpamFire. Hats off to you.

I’m lonely now! SpamSieve does such an effective job on eradicating incoming junk that I feel like the Maytag repairman—no one wants me any more. Its reduced my inbox from several hundred spams to 6 or 7 real e-mails per day. I’m almost in shock that I was manually deleting these before and now I don’t have to. What am I going to do in my spare time?

In 20 years of computing I have NEVER bought any software whose author was as conscientious and hard-working about updates as you are! You are the best!

Wow! My life is so much better with this application. It’s 99% accurate and has saved many hours of culling spam and good e-mails.

I learned about you and SpamSieve through an article in Macworld. I remember them saying that SpamSieve was great and that your attention to the details and level of customer service was unsurpassed.

I just wanted you to know that in my opinion, the Macworld quote was an understatement. The software is excellent and I have never seen anyone in the computer software business provide your level of customer service! As my son would say, you’re awesome! Just know that your customers really appreciate all that you do on our behalf.

I just I wanted to tell you how happy I am with Spam Sieve. I just checked my statistics, and after 7,295 mail messages, it continues to be 99.9% effective. It’s the best $25.00 I ever spent on software. It’s reason enough by itself to upgrade to OS X.

Just read about your latest accolade in Macworld. Congratulations! Spamsieve really is the bomb. It’s the best $25 i’ve spent in a long time and you jumped on that latest wave of spam amazingly fast. And I especially appreciate how quickly you replied to my support queries.

I don’t have words to describe how good your product is and what it has meant to my work day.

Put me down on the SpamSieve happy user list. It’s been 18 days now and it’s awesome!

It’s the best of the filters.

This has got to be the finest product I have ever used—and thank you so much for making it! I’ve been WAITING for this forever it seems—I’m just glad it’s finally here.

Your SpamSieve is absolutely great!!! I’ve had it for about a week now ad it works magic! Used to use SpamFire but this is a comletely different league.

I read about your software in Macworld magazine and downloaded a copy. In just a few days I could see how effective it is. I have happily purchased and registered. This application has improved my e-mail life.

Registered user. Excellent software. Single-handedly removed almost all spam from my inbox.

I just registered SpamSieve and I wanted to tell you how happy I am with it. I’ve been using it about 5 days and it is already much—unbelievably—more accurate than the program I was using. And SpamSieve is so much easier to use. Thank you for an excellent product.

Great! Saves me hours of wasted time.

I’m constantly amazed at how accurate SpamSieve is, and I don’t even want to think about how much time it saves me. Please accept my thanks for a great product!

SpamSieve is 99.99% with 175-225 spams daily for me.

I (unfortunately) receive well over 200 spams per day from 4 different e-mail accounts…and SpamSieve is nabbing virtually all of them! Plus, unlike some apps, it gets *better* and *easier* to use with each succeeding version!

Can’t say enough great things about SpamSieve :)

It identifies 99.9% of spam. Good price, considering Web services charge $30-$35 / year for same sort of service.

Check out SpamSieve, which Macworld acknowledged as “Software of The Year” this year. An incredibly good product…almost scary how accurate it is in catching junk mail!

Having played around with a bunch of Bayesian spam filters on both the Mac and Windows, I have seen for myself that very few of them are even in the same league as SpamSieve in terms of accuracy.

I just HAD to write to you!

I have been a devoted Mac user now since 1991. I am a retired school teacher and while I do not use my Mac in a professional manner any longer, I do use it for hobby and pleasure use, as well as operating a couple of Web sites. Therefore, I use it for hours each and every day. Needless to say, along with everyone else, spam has become a real problem for me. Well, I purchased SpamSieve on September 29th and I must tell you that I have not purchased a piece of software that has resulted in such incredible relief for a long, long time! I can’t believe how well SpamSieve works and the amount of time it saves me every day! Since installing it on my Power Mac G4 MDD Dual 867 just over two weeks ago, it has ‘caught’ and saved me from almost FOURTEEN HUNDRED pieces of spam!!! ….. What else can I say? ….. I am simply AMAZED!!!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

P.S. I tried out SpamSieve for only two days before submitting my payment! And it was SO EASY to set up and train!

I just want you to know that SpamSieve is one of the best programs ever. I have been a Mac Consultant for 10 years. You win.

I have a dozen different e-mail accounts which have been around for years and years. Many of these addresses are on public Web sites and therefore I’m the grandmaster of received spam. I get upwards of 500 spam messages every day!

I just want to congratulate you. While the earlier version of SpamSieve helped this problem, I’m amazed at how effective the upgrade to version 2 has been. It’s the cleanest my in-box has been in ages.

I’m happy to be a registered user of SpamSieve and just want to tell you that you’ve made a quantum leap forward with the new version. Thanks for delivering this great product at a fair price. I recommend it to all my clients who use Macs.

After getting a Windows-only virus on my Mac (I forgot that my Mac was protected, but the Virtual PC running Win XP was wide open) that resulted in hundreds of e-mails bombarding my Mac… I decided to search out a spam filter. After reviewing my back issues of Mac Addict & Macworld and visiting the various Mac Web sites, I settled on SpamSieve. My experience with SpamSieve thus far can be summed up in one word:

Wow!

I’ve used a couple of other junk mail filters before, but neither could hold a candle to SpamSieve. Without question, this is the single most important piece of software on my Mac.

SpamSieve is the best thing that ever happened to email. In a matter of a few hours I have gone from recieving hundreds of spam emails to recieving none. You got my $25.

I love the product. You may not hear that enough, but I don’t know what I’d do without it. I’ve been layering my “spam detection” sw so that I have multiple things looking (on my PC), but on the Mac, the only thing I have is SpamSieve and it works great. Thanks for a great product!

Version 2.0 is magnificent!…I think you have the best spam filter on either the Windows or Mac platform!

Keeps up with spamers, gets better the more you use it. Fast, very useful new features! Saves me at least 20 minutes a day. And that adds up to about 10 working days per year! Worth every single dollar! Simplly the best spam filter available today!

I know it is cliché to say this, but the best just got better. SpamSieve blocked 9616 pieces of spam for me in a little less than one year, with a wooping 97.5% accuracy rate. Invaluable. Also, a free update of this importance is really appreciated.

I actually received e-mail notice of the *free* major upgrade from the author before seeing it on Version Tracker (or having it show up two weeks after it hit VT). Great new features and great support as always. When was the last time you got a free upgrade from 1.x to 2.x?…This application keeps up with every new trick the spammers try to throw at it and it just got better. :)

After using 2.0 a few days. I can report a HUGE improvement over the previous version. The diffeence was instantaneous and dramatic. I didn’t even follow the developer’s instructions to start all over and re-train it, but just installed this over the previous version, which I had just about given up on (after a while it just got clogged up and wouldn’t label as spam even the most eggregious items). I’m immediately getting almost 100% no errors. What few occur—negative or positive—are usually new and once I identify them as spam or good, it never seems to miss from that point on.

Really powerful especially with the recent upgrade (2.0). Author is very responsive with e-mails. Since this upgrade, there has been no False Negatives. Before this upgrade, would have to train 2–3 spams as actual spams which it missed. Now it hasn’t missed any since the 2.0 release.

One has to look very hard to find a problem with this software. I’m still looking. Run ‘top.’ Just sits there most of the time and does nada. Catching it saving to corpus during idle time isn’t easy. :)

I had never been optimistic about eliminating spam from my mailbox until I bought SpamSieve. This software functions as promised and weeds off 99% of spam from my daily mail. It’s trainable and the more I use it the better it detects spam. I would like to thank publicly its author for having saved me a lot of headache with my e-mail. Highly recommended!

As someone who has been using the same e-mail address for more than a decade, I get several hundreds of spam messages daily. SpamSieve has been a godsend to me saving me many hours of extra work filtering through my inbox for messages I need. The support for the software is the best I’ve ever experienced, fast, accurate and reliable.

Thanks for all your work on this software.

Fantastic bit of software. Bought it about a week ago and my e-mail in box has been looking wonderful ever since.

Bearing in mind I’m not particularly great at reading endless instruction books that one usually needs to plough through to get a new application working. SpamSieve is seamlessly intuitive and sorts things out using it’s own thought processes.

Brilliant……. Don’t know why I didn’t purchase it sooner.

I want to give this 10 stars because it absolutely deserves it. To the novice it may be a little daunting but after a few minutes it will run by itself with little or no other interaction.

Wow! I just wanted to say thank you for SpamSieve. Not only has it been fun watching it “learn” but it never makes a mistake. Ever.

Well done on writing one of the best pieces of software I’ve ever used. Thank you!

Just a quick note from a happy customer. I have been trying SpamSieve (on recommendation from macworld.com) for only 2 days and it is not only good, it is perfect! Congratulations on a spectacular piece of software. I will be buying it of course.

Your software is above and beyond any consumer expectation. SpamSieve works so incredibly well that you’re getting this e-mail.

I never got spam until I changed over my Web hosting service—imagine that 5 years of no SPAM never, never any and it was great, until I got 50 spams a day which your software has finally restored my inbox’s sanity.

Thanks a lot—with out saying so a million times—which is what I would do if I had no sense of self control.

Awesome application. Can’t imagine handling e-mail without it. I’ve been a registered owner since the first day of downloading it. Kudos! :-)

I’m really pleased with its performance: it’s the only spam filter I’ve found which catches some particularly horrible obscene e-mails which I am unfortunate enough to receive. I train it assidiously. I even talk to it! We’re getting along just fine. :)

So thank you very much for developing such a helpful product. It’s encouraging to see intelligence and creativity rising above greed and destructiveness for once. Good luck with your future.

I’m impressed with this product—I tried it, and it rapidly proved its worth—my inbox is a much less noxious place now—after a few days I registered it—well worth it! In addition, the developer responded quickly to e-mailed questions—very courteous and quite responsive. Highly recommended!

This upgrade [2.0.1] is such a performance improvement over the last version that it boggles my mind. The accuracy has improved to the point where SpamSieve accuracy is now over 99%. The accuracy is actually improving.

The overall operation of the program has improved and I am almost to the point where I feel that I don’t have to check my spam box for incorrectly identified spam anymore.

This is a fantastic program and well worth its price.

After just training SpamSieve with what I had already around, it was over 95% accurate and the only false positives it ever had were legitimate commercial/ad email. In the last few weeks I have had zero false positives of any kind and only seven false negatives, for over 99% accuracy. Wonderful!

Excellent spam filtering, well done application, excellent support.

6 Stars

I wish I could give this product another star. it is the most important piece on my computer right behind LaunchBar. This is the best program and this 2.x version is much faster than the 1.x version. it’s quite nice. I love it.

I like the new ratios in the statistics now I can proudly proclaim that I have a spam to e-mail ratio of 1.7 to 1. Oh, I guess that’s not really a thing to be proud of.

I wrote the author regarding a problem I was having and he gave me some excellent advice regarding spam, including try to keep a 2:1 ratio of spam:good mail in the corpus. that really helped me make the thing much more accurate

I’ve been using SpamSieve for over a year. It is the best and just keeps getting better.

I am really enjoying your product. It is catching 99% of my spam. It makes reading email a breeze. In fact, it breathes new life the almost choked world of email. Thanks.

At this point I want to tell you how great this program is—it has brought sanity to my life—since I got a new computer I have been deluged with spam and I used to dread opening the mail and wasting time sorting it—now I just love watching the mail come in and then disappear.

[SpamSieve] is absolutely the best piece of software I have purchased in a long time.

Your manual is one of the most readable things I’ve encountered in a long time, including fiction. I know skill with writing is a gift, but it takes a lot of work to apply it well; thank you for writing this so lucidly. I’m sitting here reading it, and I’m actually enjoying myself as I learn, instead of suffering.

Thanks for the new update. I purchased your excellent program a few weeks ago and find it absolutely brilliant.

I’ve known of SpamSieve for a while. Yesterday I installed it and set it up. Frankly I am staggered at how effective it is. It’s 99% accurate in a day of training. Like Edwin Sneller, I’m now wondering if I’ll just delete spam without even a cursory check.

God I absolutely love SpamSieve! It’s the future. It just makes spam irrelevant. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

So far I’ve been very impressed with how accurate it is, and the author and I have had a good e-mail exchange of ideas for future versions. I’m really looking forward to seeing how much better this gets in the future. My filtering has actually become faster since I started using SpamSieve, since I was able to turn off about a dozen anti-spam rules I had manually developed.

[I’m a] four-day user/owner and teaching it is very easy. Actually, I find myself wanting to get a bunch of spam just to be able to teach it quicker. Good app, very helpful manual, good developer. One of three shareware apps that’s earned a place in my Dock permanently.

Thank God for spam filtering programs. If you use a Mac, the one to have—by far—is SpamSieve. It works like a charm because it learns what kind of spam, you receive. Only rarely does any spam get by it. And I get a lot of it, like a hundred or more a day.

Takes a while to train up, but once trained, SpamSieve does a far better job of canning Spam than any manual filter. A great utility.

I write you on this auspicious occasion when SpamSieve has now saved me from over 1000 spam messages!!! Thank you for creating such a great product. You have relieved a great stress in my life and allowed my email to become functional once again.

I have had 0—that’s zero—false positives for a good three months or more. Version 2.0 only makes a great product better.

This handles spam that no fixed text filter can (I got on some Korean spam list for some reason and couldn’t filter it out until SpamSieve). It’s fast, solid and very accurate once it’s gets trained. Well worth the money, IMO (though one could wish that the email application developers would license and include this with their apps—hint, hint to Qualcomm, CTM Dev, Bare Bones, et. al!). A big THANK YOU, Michael!

After just a few days of training, SpamSieve has exceeded the accuracy of my mailfilter setup (about 95%) and is still climbing—even messages that it correctly identifies as spam are used to improve its accuracy.

I just purchased SpamSieve and I must say it is BIG relief and BIG fun. I had been creating lots of rules in Entourage the last months when I decided to find a list of most common words used in spam (I had been reading all my spam to find out about typical wording in spam). So I found SpamSieve and I’m really impressed.

Very, very good, and highly effective.

I wanted to put in a good word for SpamSieve. The statistical approach to identifying spam has been extremely effective for me.

It’s nothing short of amazing.

This rules, Seriously. Nominate the author as patron saint of e-mail.

The simple truth is, I don’t have a spam problem anymore. I use SpamSieve, a very nice statistical filter for Mac OS X. Very large numbers of spams get routed every day to my spam folder. Only a very few per day get through to my in-box, and they are not enough to be construed as a problem.

This is without a doubt one of the easiest filters I have seen—after just a couple of hours last night and an hour or so today, it is literally catching 100 percent of all spam messages.

I’ve trained the filter with just over three thousand messages, and it has a 97% accuracy.

Excellent.