Sorry if this topic has already been discussed.
Following your advice, I uninstalled SS, deleted all my filter rules in Mail, and reinstalled version 3.3. I now get between 50 and 100 messages a day in my junk mail folder.
Is there a way for SS to automatically delete the emails I specify based on certain criteria?
I’m running macOS 26.4.1
You can use the Move it to the Trash if the spam score is at least feature to have SpamSieve move the messages that it thinks are more spammy directly to the trash. You can also influence which messages those are by creating blocklist rules using your own criteria.
Yes, the terms are mostly interchangeable.
I’ll carry on the discussion!
I’ve disabled the automatic email deletion rules in my email client based on my criteria, so as not to clutter up my inbox.
Despite all my searching, I can’t seem to do the same with SS!
I’ve set the score threshold to 65. So most spam goes to the bin.
But I’d like to be able to delete these emails straight away based on criteria I’ve chosen myself!
Help!
SpamSieve does not have a feature to delete e-mails. It can either move them to Junk or to Trash.
Just like in Mail, it would be useful if SS had this feature too.
With the same options as for the blacklist, but with the ability to delete messages.
I receive about a hundred spam emails a day and I have to go through them carefully to check whether a legitimate email might be hidden in the list!
I would be interested to hear you explain your thinking a bit further. Why is deleting better than moving to the trash, especially if you feel the need to go through the messages to check them?
Why not set it so that only the ones matching your criteria go to the trash? Maybe then you wouldn’t need to check them so carefully…
Good point.
I used to rely on Mail’s rules, which allowed me to delete messages straight away.
I can’t help but check the Trash folder before deleting them, just in case!
I’ll look into that and test the filter rule that sends messages to the Trash folder.
If you want to use Mail rules to delete some messages, you could do that, but because they bypass SpamSieve its allowlist and Contacts integration will not be able to protect you from potentially accidentally deleting good messages that match the rules.
The aim is to get the best of both worlds! 