Starting this year I’m getting hammered with a lot of repetitive spam. That is, they all claim to be from a handfull of businesses - Costco, BlueCross, Omaha Steaks, Marriot and Delta.
I train all of them and have for months and they’re still getting through.
I was going to send a sample, but went through the docs to see what else I could do first (It’s a lot of work to be a customer here.)
I notice that all of the ones getting through get their email addresses get added to the Allowlist.
It’d be nice I could update a selection of Allowlist entries at once. I can delete them at once, but that’s not recommended. It’d be nice if I could disable them..
The email addresses don’t duplicate, so they’re just noise in any case, so I’m going with delete for the moment.
You shouldn’t need to change anything in the Allowlist because training the messages that get through as spam will automatically disable the rules. If you’re seeing the rules as enabled in the Allowlist, that means they were not trained. So probably the reason the spams are getting through is that SpamSieve thinks many of them are good and that you want to see more like that.
Disabling or deleting allowlist rules would hide the problem, not fix it. It’s important to either correct all the mistakes (by training) or turn off auto-training. You can fix old messages by going to the Good Messages section of the Corpus window and training any spammy messages there as spam. (This will not necessarily disable all the spammy rules, because some of them came from messages not in the corpus, but at least it will improve SpamSieve’s analysis of the message content.)
