6.1   Settings ‣ Filters

SpamSieve uses a variety of filters to determine whether messages are spam or good. It consults the filters in the order listed in this window. When a filter decides that the message is good or spam, SpamSieve stops moving down the list. Thus, the order of the filters makes a difference. You can see from the order that if a message’s sender is on the allowlist, it will be marked as good even if the Bayesian classifier would have predicted it to be spam. Normally this is what you want; the point of a allowlist is that you can be sure that certain messages will never be marked as spam.

• 6.1.1   Use corpus messages
• 6.1.2   Use macOS Contacts
• 6.1.3   Catch spam sent from my own addresses
• 6.1.4   Use Outlook/Entourage contacts
• 6.1.5   Use SpamSieve allowlist
• 6.1.6   Use SpamSieve blocklist
• 6.1.7   Use Bayesian classifier
• 6.1.8   Train SpamSieve allowlist
• 6.1.9   Train SpamSieve blocklist
• 6.1.10   Train Bayesian classifier
• 6.1.11   Auto-train as needed