The following limitations are due to problems with Eudora’s
“notification” interface. Because of these limitations it is
recommended that you use Eudora 6 and the SpamSieve Eudora Plug-In,
as described in the Eudora 6 section. The plug-in avoids
these limitations.
- Eudora gives messages to SpamSieve after all the other
filters have run. It is not possible to change this ordering.
- SpamSieve cannot filter messages that are moved by other filters.
For instance, if you have a filter that moves incoming messages from
Steve Jobs to a separate mailbox, SpamSieve will not mark any of those
messages as spam, even if a spammer pretends to be Jobs. This
limitation applies to both automatic filtering of incoming mail and
manual filtering of selected messages.
- Sometimes the wrong message is marked. That is, SpamSieve may decide
that message A is spam and ask Eudora to mark it with a red “X”; in
rare circumstances, Eudora will instead mark some other message B
with the “X.” You can tell if this has happened by comparing
SpamSieve’s log to the way the messages are marked in Eudora. This
problem seems to occur when the In mailbox is sorted.
- Sometimes SpamSieve never sees a message that should have been
filtered. You can tell if this has happened by the absence of that
message in the log. It may help to remove any “notify user” filter
action that you have set up.
- Sometimes SpamSieve determines that a message is good or spam, but
Eudora does not mark it at all. You can tell if this has happened by
comparing SpamSieve’s log to the way the messages are marked in
Eudora.
- SpamSieve cannot add or filter messages that are stored in the
Trash mailbox or in mailbox files outside the Mail Folder folder
in the Eudora Folder. Note that this includes all IMAP messages.
To access these messages, first move them to a non-trash mailbox
file that is stored inside the Mail Folder folder.
- If you manually apply filters while Eudora is in the process of
downloading mail, Eudora will show the SpamSieve dialog box twice.
If this happens, just choose Skip the second time.
- Sometimes Eudora erroneously shows the SpamSieve dialog when you
check for new mail.
- Sometimes after a long delay in talking to the mail server,
Eudora stops notifying SpamSieve when it receives new messages.
You can work around this by quitting and re-launching the SpamSieve
Eudora Helper.