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by Retired Doc

It doesn’t work !!!

by Geoelectric

Edit:

Author claims there’s a more powerful regex/rule checker in the report UI, but I only have a dialog to reclassify the reported message, and check the URL, as well as to send the report forward. Once I click the mislabeled send report option, it does let me check how that particular message resolves in the ruleset.

But it does not let me sandbox how a freeform sample message input of my own would resolve (eg something not originally filtered by Junkman therefore not reportable). It would also be incredibly inconvenient to craft rules in the main UI but have to check them from Messages.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to be an effective replacement for the standalone rule checker that existed before.

Original:

I dislike the smart filter on this app even with aggressive disabled. While it’s very effective at removing political spam, etc, it also overshoots and moves a lot of legit texts to junk—anything from my credit card companies, shipper notices, ticket purchase confirmations, etc, those all get filed away. It’s not the author’s fault iOS doesn’t let you classify them back, but since they don’t the filter being liberal is an issue.

That said, the author did reach out at one point and suggest I send him texts that aren’t working. The problem is a lot of them have confirmation links or other personal info in them and I can’t.

So I rely on manual rules only. And at one point this app had the best feature: you could paste in a sample text and it’d run rules on it, so you’d know how the filters would treat it. This was *invaluable* to me, especially since it gave me a hint of what the smart filter would overclassify so I could exclude it with a positive rule.

Unfortunately, this feature is now gone. So now rules are a crapshoot again. It’s a shame because there are so few of these filter apps that even work. I don’t know why the author chose to move backwards with such a distinguishing feature.

I’m now looking for another SMS filter, and definitely won’t be paying a subscription fee on this one. Moving backwards is never ok with a subscription.

by OldScoolTexan

Junkman, thank you for saving my sanity! Within a day before and after the big presidential debate, I received at least 15 junk political messages, making me crazy and disrupting my life. As soon as I installed your app, they immediately started going to a junk folder instead of my inbox! At your current price, the app is completely worth it. (Even got you a teapot as a thank you!) I request and truly hope that you do not do your customers dirty like the big name spam filter service that nearly quadrupled their price after one subscription year. Great app, it actually works!!