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Spam mail is not going into the Spam folder

Yves RICIMELLO — Thu, 16 May 2013 10:59:04 GMT

HI Michael,

MacBook Pro Retina, Mountain Lion DP3, Apple Mail, SpamSieve 2.9.7 (démo), plug-in installed, rule OK.

Spam mail is not going into the Spam folder, but some messages are gray.
And the menu 'train as Spam' doesn't work at all.

It worked a while (some hours), but no more.

Yves

Train as Spam takes 2 attempts

blocktek — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:21:31 GMT

OS 10.8.3, SS 2.9.7, Mail 6.3 (1503)
Whenever a piece of spam makes it through to my inbox, the first time I select it and "Train as Spam," nothing happens. I need to select the menu item a second time in order for the spam to be moved to my Trash folder.
Also, When selecting "Train as Good," though the email is no longer marked as spam, it no longer moves back to my inbox.

Spam folder showing up in OS X mail search results

fb-guy — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:43:55 GMT

How do I stop spam folder email from showing up in OS X mail search results?

Thanks.

Spam on "exploding" or "moving" stocks keeps getting through

Cannolo — Thu, 09 May 2013 19:06:19 GMT

Over the last few weeks or months (I've lost track), I've been getting loads of spam about stocks and movie production. I train each one as spam, and SS corrects itself. But they keep getting through. They use many of the same words, so I'd think that SS would have caught on by now. One explanation is that whoever's behind these is just busier than ever. But my total spam count is about the same or just a little bit more.

I've checked the settings, and it's all normal. SS does filter out most other spam (except now and then when it seems to fail completely and let through a bunch of even the most obvious ones).

Love at first sight

railfam@hotmail.com — Tue, 07 May 2013 00:48:51 GMT

This is one of the best apps I have ever paid for on my mac. Period end of story. Just simply works.

Love it!!!

Trojans Saved as False Negatives

Dick — Sun, 05 May 2013 16:42:14 GMT

I have been ignoring the False Negatives but have noticed something that indicates I need to pay more attention. The question is how to do it. I have started running Bitdefender on a regular basis. Often it detects and reports a trojan file in the SpamSieve False Negative folder. Under my current Bitdefender settings, it is deleted and there is nothing to send you because I delete trash and Spam on a daily basis.

The Bitdefender options for infected items are "Try to disinfect or move to quarantine" or "Take No Action"

I could change to "Take no action" and them afterwards, send to the False Negatives file, etc. to Spam Sieve with a message identifying the one flagged as a trojan.

Would that work? Anything else I need to do?

SS MessageLog

oshloel — Sat, 04 May 2013 22:17:29 GMT

I am seeking to understand the role of the MessageLog in SpamSieve's ~/Library/Application Support folder in SS's operation. My MessageLog folder contains over 14,000 items consuming 1.5 GB of solid state drive space on my MacBook Pro Retina laptop (SS 2.97, OS 10.8.3, Apple Mail) and grows daily. It appears to have virtually every good message going back to Dec 2011. Is the file automatically trimmed or size limited in some fashion or will it just continue to grow & consume disk space as long as I use SpamSieve?

Regards,
Rick

No more 'Train as Spam/Good'?

MartinLiss — Fri, 03 May 2013 14:05:17 GMT

I just installed version 2.9.7 and no I no longer have the above options. What's going on?

Check for Update: NSURLErrorDomain error -1004

bernardharte — Fri, 03 May 2013 12:57:57 GMT

When I got the email announcing 2.9.7, I tried using 'check now' from the previous version, but got this error.

I manually updated to 2.9.7, but the error persists.

Googling gets me some reference to a MUCH earlier version and Internet misconfiguration, but this does not seem to apply here. I am using OS X 10.8.3 and Mac Mail client.

2.9.7 Locking Up My Outlook

brockstr — Thu, 02 May 2013 22:51:34 GMT

I just updated to 2.9.7 on Mac OS 10.8.3.

When using Outlook 2011 14.3.2 it often locks up. If I am writing a letter, sometimes I am unable to enter the cursor into the email or the cursor disappears. The only way to get it back it to quit Outlook and then restart.

This has happened on rare occasions before but has been quite frequent (had to restart Outlook 4 times today) since updating.

Gmail Settings

spamman — Thu, 02 May 2013 02:25:30 GMT

I use gmail & Apple Mail with Mountain Lion on a MacBook Pro. Do I have to tweak my gmail settings to achieve harmony with SpamSieve? I have made the recommended changes to Apple Mail's preferences.

SpamSieve 2.9.7

Michael Tsai — Wed, 01 May 2013 19:28:49 GMT

The following was posted on the SpamSieve blog:

Version 2.9.7 of SpamSieve is now available. This is a free update that includes the following changes:

Improved compatibility with pre-release versions of Mac OS X.
Made various changes to improve SpamSieve’s filtering accuracy.
SpamSieve no longer links against AppleScriptKit. This removes some GUI scripting functionality (which is now largely available by other means) but works around an OS bug that could prevent SpamSieve from launching.
Worked around a bug in Apple Mail’s iCloud rule syncing.
SpamSieve is better at moving trained messages when Outlook has lost track of the special Junk E-mail folder.
Fixed a problem where Apple Mail couldn’t communicate with SpamSieve when the file permissions were incorrect.
Fixed a bug where SpamSieve couldn’t load any addresses from Outlook if it reported an error while getting the e-mail address of a contact.
Fixed a bug editing counts in the Corpus window (due to suspected 64-bit OS bug).
Added more checks that the folders SpamSieve relies upon have the proper permissions.
Improved error reporting for Apple Mail, Growl, and more.
Improved handling of file permissions errors.
The Apple Mail drone script now sets the junk status.
Wrote a script that allows SpamSieve to filter messages (in Apple Mail) that have been organized by SaneBox.
Improved the Japanese localization.
SpamSieve now requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

SpamSieve 2.9.7 works with Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.8 and requires an e-mail client. Older versions are available for older operating systems. For information about previous releases of SpamSieve, please see the version history.

Apple Mail and Hushmail's Junk folder checking

FrankS — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:59:14 GMT

Hushmail has a folder ("Junk") that is their spam bucket. Unfortunately they also put good emails in it and I want to filter them. I used the following script, which is a variation on the one found here. As the rest of these scripts didn't work for me either, I would like to know if this is the real script for Apple Mail on Snow Leopard.

Thanks.

Code:

on perform_mail_action(info)

        tell application "Mail"

                set _mailbox to mailbox "Junk" of account "Hushmail"

                repeat with _message in messages of _mailbox

                        set _source to _message's source

                        tell application "SpamSieve"

                                set _isSpam to looks like spam message _source

                        end tell

                        if not _isSpam then

                                set read status of _message to false

                                set _message's mailbox to mailbox "Inbox" of account "Hushmail"

                        end if

                end repeat

        end tell

end perform_mail_action

Growl giving nonsense as well as accurate reports

sdaniel — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:17:37 GMT

SpamSieve is doing beautifully for me. But Growl is a little peculiar. It does pick up an accurate count on incoming mail, but it also issues other bulletins that make no sense. "23 good messages", for instance. I see this, check my Mail program, and there may be, say 21 messages in the Inbox that have already been vetted when they came in. I've noticed that if I check a mailbox On My Mac to read something I received a while ago, it sometimes sends me notice of the number of 'good messages' in that mailbox.
This is not a problem for me. It is nothing like getting the spam I was getting before I discovered SpamSieve. But it would be nice to get it to not do this.
I repeat -- the accurate information is getting to me through Growl; there is also extra information that has no meaning for me.

SpamSieve 2.9.6, OS X 10.7.5, Mail 5.3, Growl 1.2.2

Statistics not loading

DONMAYER — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:37:07 GMT

Hi,

I am running SpamSieve 2.9.6 under Mountain Lion with Apple Mail. The statistics window will come up put the stats don't load -- just spinning.

Don

Configuring SpamAssassin

allank — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:27:55 GMT

I have been using SpamSieve for several years, and it has been phenomenally accurate. Lately, however, more and more junk is getting through - about 20 offers a day from Dr Oz, coffee beans, and dozens of lottery prizes!

I have my own domain at HostGator and have access to the SpamAssasin config file. After reading through the FAQs, it seems like SpamAssassin can be configured to further improve SpamSieve's filtering capabilities:

Quote:

Many mail hosts offer SpamAssassin or a similar filter. Make sure the filter is set not to add **Junk** or another tag to the message’s subject. Also, try to configure the filter not to move the messages out of the inbox. It is actually good if you can leave the filter on, but set so that it only tags the message’s headers (e.g. by adding X-Spam-Status and X-Spam-Report headers). This will allow SpamSieve to incorporate the work that the server filter has done into its analysis.

Could someone please elaborate on how to achieve this? I read through the syntax at:
http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/...ssin_Conf.html, and got completely lost!

Any help will be appreciated.

mail.app junk mail filter auto enables

AndrewML — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 19:23:16 GMT

I have 2 macs at home an iMac and a MBAir on both I am using SpamSieve <2.9.6> on Mac OS X <10.7.5> on Mail.app <5.3 (build 1283)>

For the first time today I noticed two never before seen issues after years of issue free use of SpamSieve. I observed this first on the iMac.

1) The Mail.app Junk mail filtering preference turned itself ON spontaneously. I noticed this when it flagged a message as possible Junk. I immediately turned this flag off in Mail.app preferences. Then I Quit Mail.app and restarted it to discover the Junk flag was back on. I repeated this with the same result. I then tried this on the MBAir and noticed the same problem. Junk mail flag was ON spontaneously. I turned it off. Quit Mail.app and launched it again to find the Junk flag back ON.

2) On the iMac when I quit Mail.app SpamSieve does not quit as expected. However SpamSieve does launch with Mail.app

3) On the MBAir when I quit Mail.app SpamSieve also quits as normal and launches with Mail.app

For this Junk mail filtering preference to suddenly start on both of my macs suggests it might be a bug rather than a corrupted preference file.

I have check Software Update and my Mac OS is up to date.

What do you suggest?

For now I will have to turn off Mail.app's Junk mail option each time I launch SpamSieve.

If necessary, I will delete Mail.app's preferences on one of my Macs to see if this resolves the issue.

I found no posts on this issue here and one post on Apple Support Communities on this topic without replies at: Junk Mail Filter Keeps Enabling Itself

Just installed, freeze mac mail

mattr2 — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 16:11:40 GMT

I am running 10.8.3

I just installed the trial for SpamSieve.

Whenever I train the application to "train as spam" it locks up mac mail which then requires a force quit and restart.

Any ideas?

Need an update for OS 10.8.4

Mondozer — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 23:12:08 GMT

Can't install the current mail plugin on the new beta.

TIA,
M.

Great Application

DavidFerrington — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:20:13 GMT

Normal story I guess, was getting inundated with spam, mostly on just one of my accounts, but can't afford to get rid of that account. Mail host has spam filtering, but not really cutting it, maintaining the mail filters was taking more time than deleting the spam. Then I came across SpamSieve in an article from TidBITS - the rest is history - so is the spam. Thank you very much for giving me my mail life back.

Loads of spam getting through though being user since 2007 with well trained corpus

MacuserP — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:49:24 GMT

Hi,
Apple Mountain Lion is the fourth or so version of my Apple Mail and SpamSieve working together.
Until lately very successful with almost 100% correct filtering, every now and then a false positive.

Well trained corpus with: 3156 good news, 4077 spams (56%), 458.853 words ...
Filtered news: 63.510 good news, 9799 spams, 4spams per day, 107 false positives, 709 false negatives, 98,9[ correct

But since a few days I am getting loads of spams through nit knowing how it could happen.
Can't help, can you?

Thanks
Cheers

Spam Mails

KKang — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:32:09 GMT

Hi, can anyone help me with following question? I get loads of spam every day and some are very consistent domains. How do I filter specific domains permanently so that it never enters my mail box. I am using MAC. Thanks

Can't find the "Mark as not junk" in Postbox

jcs — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:36:20 GMT

Hello,

I have installed the latets version of Spamsieve. I followed the tutorial to use it with Postbox... but I can't find Message ‣ Mark ‣ As Not Junk. I only have the Mark as Junk in the Message menu.

Is it ok anyway ? Thanks for your help. JC

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False Negatives

mbroom — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:32:01 GMT

Hello,

Every now and then I get an email that continually goes to spam even though it is in the white list and my address book. What could be causing this?

Michael