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SpamSieve 2.9.38 MacOS [Full]

Spamsieve

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Spamsieve Manual

SpamSieve

It is no exaggeration to say that SpamSieve is the best spam filter for Mail.app and many other email clients for Mac OS X. If your email filters are no longer able to handle the constant flow of spam, this plugin will certainly help you.

Although App has its own huge database of spam words and servers, you still have to spend some time learning about spam filtering, but the result will meet all expectations. SpamSieve doesn’t delete messages, it just marks them in the email client, so you’ll never lose a single message. The program learns new ways to protect against spam while it’s running, keeping track of all the spammers’ techniques. The plugin works with any number of mail accounts and regardless of the type of protocol used by the mail client (e.g. POP and IMAP).

List of supported mail clients:

  • Apple Mail
  • Airmail
  • Emailer
  • Entourage
  • Outlook 2011
  • Outlook Express
  • Eudora 5.2 or 6.x (Sponsored or Paid)
  • MailForge
  • MailMate
  • Mailsmith
  • GyazMail 1.2
  • Postbox 2.0
  • Thunderbird

Whats new:

  • SpamSieve 2.9.38 (and also 2.9.37) are compatible with macOS 10.15, however a small number of customers are seeing issues with the Catalina version of Apple Mail. The latest information about Catalina is available here.
  • Worked around an AppleScript bug in Apple Mail on macOS 10.15 that could result in messages trained as good being moved to the inbox of an account that’s disabled, making it look like the messages disappeared. This fix is available for all new installations and for older ones if you choose Install Apple Mail Plug-In from the SpamSieve menu. (If you weren’t seeing this problem or have no disabled accounts, it’s not necessary to update the plug-in.)
  • Worked around an issue that could prevent some Apple Mail messages from being filtered through SpamSieve if SpamSieve had not yet launched and the Mac was overloaded, e.g. because it was relaunching all apps after logging in.
  • Worked around a problem where SpamSieve could be slow to launch if the system privacy database was overloaded.
  • Added the If the Apple Mail Plug-In Doesn’t Appear in the List or Doesn’t Stay Enabled section of the manual.
  • Improved the following sections of the manual:
    • Enabling and Updating the Apple Mail Plug-In
    • How can I rebuild Apple Mail’s database?
    • Setting Up Apple Mail
    • Turning Off Microsoft Spam Filters
    • Why does a message disappear or go back to the spam mailbox after I train it as good?
  • A macOS 10.15 bug can prevent Apple Mail messages from being moved to the Spam mailbox, leaving them colored as spam in the inbox. SpamSieve now offers an alternate Apple Mail Script Rule setup for the small number of customers affected by this bug.
  • Added an experimental esoteric preference (click to enable/disable) to flag incoming spam messages as gray. A few customers are running into a Mail bug in macOS 10.15 that prevents rules from moving messages (even when using an Apple Mail Script Rule). This workaround makes it possible to set up a smart mailbox for gray flagged messages, so that they can easily be viewed and bulk-deleted even if the messages remain in the inbox.
  • Worked around some bugs in macOS 10.15 that could cause Mail to hang when SpamSieve launched.
  • If the Rules file is damaged, SpamSieve will now report some more information about the problem.
  • The Apple Mail – Server Junk Mailbox script now has an option to only mark confirmed spam messages as read, leaving them in the server spam mailbox rather than moving them to a shared spam mailbox.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when a Software Update… error occurred.
  • Fixed a bug with the crash reporter window and Dark Mode.
  • Modernized the localizations
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Requirements: OS X 10.7 or later 64-bit

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