All this obviously comes down to taste: I use SpamSieve and am very happy with it. It is true that it does take some time to get it right. Interesting is your observation about mixed messages: I receive English and Dutch and had qualified SpamSieve the best for that, as it just analyses occurrences of character-combinations, and does not look for words.
What I do like on SpamSieve over Spamfire is that I get all messages to my Mac and then let SS deal with them. I know other users do not like to have the spam on their machine (and there are types of spam for which that is ooooo so true), but I like to be in control and I did not feel like that with Spamfire. Give it time (and follow the instruction on filling the corpus right) and it becomes virtually perfect. The messages passing through as false positives now are only messages without content (presumably testing for address validity). That is why I really would like the bounce feature in PM. Last thing: the most recent version of SS does check against your addressbook (like the friends list in Spamfire). But again, it is mostly personal preferences. Both products are very good. Another 2 cents! Mirko >>I use Spamfire and love it. >>http://www.matterform.com/ > > My 2 cents for this: > > I tested SpamSieve over some months, but it didn't produce good results. > There were always many false guesses. I think the reason is because I am > receiving mail from some mailing lists, and my mail is mixed half > English, half German. Some of those "advertising" mails I actually LIKE > to get, others I don't. > > After reading the above, I threw SpamSieve off my hard disk and installed > Spamfire. Advantage 1: I could import my address book so that mails from > my friends are always accepted. Advantage 2: I could tell Spamfire my > mailing lists, so mails from them are always accepted, too. Advantage 3: > If there is a false guess, I can mail it with one click to Matterform, > and THEY take care that in the future the guess is right. They have > hundreds of rules for checking spam mail. But every mail is checked > against EVERY rule. If it hurts a rule, it gets some negative points. And > these rules can be updated automatically over the Internet :-) > > This way, after only a few days, Spamfire produces NO false guesses here. > It's unbelievable :-) > > -- > Best, Dietmar > _______________________________________ > Harmsonic GmbH > Dietmar Harms > Vogelsanger Str. 76 > 58135 Hagen > Tel. +49 2331 944815 > > > > -- Mirko Kranenburg e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
