I remember when spam sieve first came out that I could sort by color (ranking). Now that option doesn’t seem to be available. Is this a problem with OS X? It makes it a lot faster to scan the Spam folder when you can sort by label color.
Thanks! I’ve set up multiple folders like this:
Spam
Spam95-100
Spam81-94
Spam50-80
That should help!
Maybe I have something set up wrong. The messages sort correctly except in the first folder titled Spam it is receiving good messages.
Spam – The rule I have associated with this folder is titled: SpamSieve [Score]
Spam95-100 – rule moves message to Spam95-100 folder <–this is working
Spam81-94 – Spam81-94 <–this is working
Spam50-80 – Spam50-80 <–this is working
The Spam rule is set up like this:
**any
Every Message
Move Message to mailbox: Spam** <–I have it set to this but I think the instructions say the action will be ignored?
Any idea why I’m getting good messages in the Spam folder? Isn’t that where my [white] messages and manually spammed messages should go?
That can happen if your rule name doesn’t start with “SpamSieve”.
If you want a catch-all Spam mailbox for the remaining spam messages, you would need a separate “SpamSieve [Spam]” rule.
OK I will try that. I must have missed that step in the directions.
Still having trouble with this. I made the changes but my good mail is ending up in my Spam folder. The other Spam folders with numbers are working correctly.
I’d be happy to take a closer look. Please send in your rules files and log file and tell me the subjects of a few of the good messages.
The problem seems to be that you have a “SpamSieve [White]” rule that moves messages to the Spam mailbox. Only non-spam messages are white, so it’s doing what you told it, but not what you want. You probably meant to write “SpamSieve [Spam]”.
OK so should I delete that white rule? I saw something about that in the instructions you sent me.
No, you should rename it to “SpamSieve [Spam]”.
What they said was:
To match non-spam messages you can write [White].
The [Spam] rule should go to the Spam folder without the number? Does it make a difference what the order of the rules are?
Right.
I recommend putting the rules in order of decreasing spamminess. Your order looks fine.
Thanks. It’s working great! Later I will auto delete some or the more spammy folders.