what's the best email/spam fighter for the mac?

Eudora doesn't cut it anymore.

[Lorel]

I'm looking for an email program for the Mac that not only tags and separates email for spam but also deletes it after it's been adequately tested.

Eudora is pretty good as separating email from junk mail but I still have to delete the junk manually. I want the program to delete the spam itself. And Eudora isn't all that great in picking out good mail either and the filters don't always work.

Any suggestions?

[sonjay]

I hear good things about Mail's spam filtering capability.

[solly]

Mail.app is probably the best overall. I have used it until now and have been happy...but it ain't good enough for the industrial strength spam I have been getting recently.

I have thinking of going over to a challenge/response system from a third party. Anybody use that? Work well?

[oodlum]

I get a lot of spam & find Mail's built in filter really awful. A few months ago I installed spamsieve, which has been a godsend. It works within Mail, Entourage, Eudora, Outlook Express and most Mac mail clients.

[whoisgregg]

I don't use Mail's built-in at all -- SpamSieve does all my spam filtering and does a pretty good job:

Filtered Mail
15898 Good Messages
130680 Spam Messages (89%)
162 Spam Messages Per Day

SpamSieve Accuracy
137 False Positives
1101 False Negatives (89%)
99.2% Correct

Corpus
2467 Good Messages
5624 Spam Messages (70%)
212421 Total Words

Rules
8575 Blocklist Rules
3025 Whitelist Rules

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[islandlizard]

Mail.app works well here.

I receive around 300 junk mails a day. Mail.app correctly flags 99.9999% of these as junk and neatly 'files' them in my junk folder.

I get maybe 1 false positive a week. If that. That's pretty decent results.

I kept Mail in 'training' mode for about 3 months in total, which helped.

I also have server-level filtering, which for me and my clients blocks an additional several thousand mails a day, again, with a miniscule percentage of false positives.

Between the two, junk mail has become only as intrusive as advertising on the TV. And we all live with that.