You can set esoteric SpamSieve preferences by clicking the links on this
page. Unlike with regular settings, you must generally quit and re-launch
SpamSieve in order for an esoteric preference to take effect.
- AddStandardRules
- Normally, SpamSieve will create its standard set of allowlist and
blocklist rules if it detects that they are missing. You can also turn this
feature off if you prefer
to manage the rules yourself.
- AppleMailAllJunkMessagesUseBlackText
- Apple Mail shows messages that its junk
filter (or a server filter) thinks are junk using a low-contrast
brown/gold/yellow text color. Click here to
have SpamSieve override this and display the messages with the traditional
black text color; for the default low-contrast text color click here.
This setting is only available when using the SpamSieve Mail plug-in.
- AppleMailPlugInSetIsJunk
- Normally, when SpamSieve classifies an incoming message as spam, it tells
Apple Mail that the message is junk. This makes sure
that Mail will not display remote images for that message, thus
protecting you from Web bugs. You can also tell SpamSieve not to mark the messages
as junk. This will speed up mail filtering (especially on macOS 10.9), as
it will reduce the amount of communication with the mail server.
This setting is only available when using the SpamSieve Mail plug-in.
- MJTUpdaterDeleteDiskImage
- Normally, the Software Update… feature will clean up after itself
after downloading a new version. You can also set it to leave the disk
image file in
your Downloads folder.
- QuitMailWhenMacSleeps
- As described in the Why are messages marked as spam in Apple Mail but not
moved? section, an OS bug can sometimes cause Mail not to move spam
messages out of the inbox if they were received right after the Mac woke
from sleep. You can click here to enable a
workaround where SpamSieve quit Mails when the Mac sleeps and relaunches it
when the Mac wakes. Or click here to disable the
workaround.