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87% of e-mail traffic is spam

InformationWeek reports that spam accounted for nearly 87% of e-mail traffic this year, nearly a third more than last year. And that spam wasn't all about getting you to buy V1agra and C1al1s. Quite a bit of it was phishing bait, intended to get you ...

Drowning in a sea of spam? Spamsweep can help

First things first: as a new blogger around here, let me introduce myself. Hi, I'm Mel Martin. I spent most of my life as a journalist, then moved over to the technology side. I spent 4 years at the BBC working on creating a content management ...

SpamSweep spam filter released

Got spam?  Apple's Mail does a really great job of keeping my mailboxes spam free, but every now and then a few messages slip in. If you're ready to bring out the big guns, check out Bains Software's SpamSweep, which is a bayesian spam ...

SpamSieve: Kills Spam Dead

Ah, RAID commercials of years gone by... *sigh* Anyway, where was I? Oh, yes: SpamSieve, my spam filter of choice, has been updated today to version 2.3.2. Get it here. It'll cost you $25, but if you use Apple Mail, Emailer, Entourage, Outlook ...

SpamSieve Update

The one thing about updating to 10.4.1 last night that bothered me (besides Setup Assistant) was that both SpamSieve and Growl's mail bundles deactivated themselves upon launching Mail.app after reboot. Suddenly piles and piles of God-forsaken Spam ...

Friday Favorite: SpamSieve 2.76

My Friday favorite is SpamSieve. We have mentioned it a few times previously, but since it has recently been updated to version 2.76 I wanted to sing its praises again. It's the best way I've found to deal with spam. Using Bayesian filtering, ...

SpamSieve goes universal

Today, SpamSieve has been updated to version 2.4.1. For the uninitiated, SpamSieve is a customizable spam filtering application for Mac email clients, including Mail, Mailsmith, Entourage, PowerMail, and Eudora. As the title suggests, this version is ...

SpamSieve 2.7 is available

The great SpamSieve was updated earlier this week to version 2.7. If you're unfamiliar with SpamSieve, you're probably inundated with unwanted email. It's a piece of software that works with your email client and excels at squashing spam long before ...

SpamSieve updated to version 2.4

The great SpamSieve has been updated to version 2.4, which is less tolerant of unsavory spam than ever. It works in conjunction with your Mac OS X email client (including Mail, Entourage, Eudora 5.2 and others), and redirects all of your junk to a ...

Free iPods/minis/ad nauseum is becoming the new spam

Is it just me, or is anyone else getting really annoyed by seeing comment posts for free iPods, free Mac minis, blah blah blah, everywhere I look?? It seems like it’s becoming the new spam. I’ve suffered through email spam (still not ...

.Mac webmail now does server-side spam filtering

As with most big Apple announcements, at least a few features slip through the cracks. Thanks to TUAW reader Brandon Werner, we caught one that answers a long-time complaint of .Mac users and critics: server-side spam filtering. Until today (or at ...

A Mail.app rule for catching image spam

It seems that I'm not the only one being inflicted with a new wave of image spam, as Bill Benson, a MacInTouch reader, has posted his rule solution for this junk that seems to so easily elude Mail.app's filters. Tim Gaden at Hawk Wings, also a ...

iPhone apps that bloggers will love

wpbeginner has posted a terrific list of 10 iPhone apps that every blogger will love. The first item on the list is, as you'd expect, WordPress for iPhone. Version 2.0 was released earlier this week and it's a huge improvement over its predecessor. ...

What Mac Mail solution do you use?

Judith, as TUAW-reading faithfuls know, likes to ask me to ask you all questions whenever she is considering what the best option is for her own personal Mac usage. Here's one such question: What Mac Mail solution do you use and why? I, ...

New Fake .Mac Email

I just received this at my .Mac account: Dear user [MY USER NAME], You have successfully updated the password of your Mac account. If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with your account, please ...

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