Version 3.1.2 of SpamSieve is now available.

Save time by adding powerful spam filtering to the e-mail client on your Mac. SpamSieve gives you back your inbox, using Bayesian spam filtering to provide amazing accuracy that’s constantly improving. SpamSieve learns and adapts to your mail, so it’s able to block nearly all the junk—without putting good messages in the Junk mailbox. It’s quick and easy to control SpamSieve from within Apple Mail, Outlook, Airmail, MailMate, GyazMail, Mailsmith, and more.

SpamSieve running on your Mac can keep the spam off your iPhone/iPad, and you can even train SpamSieve from your iOS device. SpamSieve protects your privacy. It does not need access to your mail account login and does not transmit your mail data anywhere. All the processing is done on your Mac.

SpamSieve 3.1.2 is a free update for those who have already purchased the SpamSieve 3.0 upgrade. If you’re using SpamSieve 2 and haven’t upgraded yet, the easiest way is to first let SpamSieve install the new version. At launch, it will show the Purchase window, and you can click the Check Upgrade Options button to get the upgrade discount without having to enter your old serial number.

The changes in this version are:

• Made various changes to improve SpamSieve’s filtering accuracy.
• It’s now possible to select more than 1,000 log entries at once in the Log window.
• Improved the scrolling and copying performance in the Log window.
• Improved the following sections of the manual:
  • Automatically Deleting Old Spam Messages
  • Checking the Apple Mail Setup
  • Checking the MailMate Setup
  • Checking the Outlook Setup
  • Checking the Outlook Setup (Large Inboxes)
  • Duplicate Apple Mail Accounts
  • Move it to the Trash if the spam score is at least
• SpamSieve now automatically relaunches if it crashes or is accidentally quit while Outlook is running. (This was already the case for Apple Mail.)
• Improved the diagnostic report.
• Added the Apple Mail - Block Reply-To sample script.
• Fixed a bug where sometimes SpamSieve launched after a delay or not at all when Apple Mail or Outlook was set as a login item.
• Fixed a bug where, in rare cases, SpamSieve did not find the correct sender or recipient names/addresses for a message.
• Fixed a bug where the Train SpamSieve allowlist, Train SpamSieve blocklist, and Train Bayesian classifier settings were hooked up to the wrong checkboxes in the Settings window.
• Fixed a bug where the esoteric preferences for custom training keyboard shortcuts didn’t work for numbers and some other keys.

SpamSieve 3.1.2 works with macOS 10.13 through macOS 15 and requires an e-mail client. Older SpamSieve versions are available for older versions of macOS. In-depth information about SpamSieve is available in the manual.

If you enjoy using SpamSieve, please take a moment to review it on MacUpdate or to mention it on Twitter, Mastodon, Facebook, or your own site. We’d really appreciate it.

Version 3.1.1 of SpamSieve is now available.

Save time by adding powerful spam filtering to the e-mail client on your Mac. SpamSieve gives you back your inbox, using Bayesian spam filtering to provide amazing accuracy that’s constantly improving. SpamSieve learns and adapts to your mail, so it’s able to block nearly all the junk—without putting good messages in the Junk mailbox. It’s quick and easy to control SpamSieve from within Apple Mail, Outlook, Airmail, MailMate, GyazMail, Mailsmith, and more.

SpamSieve running on your Mac can keep the spam off your iPhone/iPad, and you can even train SpamSieve from your iOS device. SpamSieve protects your privacy. It does not need access to your mail account login and does not transmit your mail data anywhere. All the processing is done on your Mac.

SpamSieve 3.1.1 is a free update for those who have already purchased the SpamSieve 3.0 upgrade. If you’re using SpamSieve 2 and haven’t upgraded yet, the easiest way is to first let SpamSieve install the new version. At launch, it will show the Purchase window, and you can click the Check Upgrade Options button to get the upgrade discount without having to enter your old serial number.

The changes in this version are:

Highlights

• Made various changes to improve SpamSieve’s filtering accuracy.
• When a supported mail client is the frontmost app, the first item of the SpamSieve icon menu, instead of being a static label, now opens the setup instructions for that mail client.
• The training commands in the Message menu in the SpamSieve icon menu now work when SpamSieve is not the frontmost app. The original thinking was to disable these, because people would use the hotkeys or the more convenient top-level menu commands for this purpose, but it turns out that many people prefer to use the Message submenu.
• Working with large selections in the Corpus, Allowlist, Blocklist, and Log windows is much faster and uses less memory. Now SpamSieve waits to load the selected items until you actually do something with them, and then it does so in batches to that they don’t all need to be stored in memory at the same time.

Apple Mail

• The Filter Messages hotkey (Command-Control-L) was originally intended for use with the Mail extension, but it is now also available when using the Mail plug-in setup.
• Fixed a bug where, if you went on vacation and didn’t launch Mail for a week, when you got back to lots of new messages SpamSieve might not filter some of them because it would see them as old.
• Worked around a Mail bug where a message might disappear when trained as good instead of moving to the inbox. (If messages ever disappear, you can recover them from the Log window.)
• When training a message as good and moving it to the inbox, if multiple mail accounts have the same e-mail address that matches the message, SpamSieve now prefers the inbox of the account that the message is already in.
• SpamSieve now reports an error if multiple Mail accounts have the same name, as that can prevent filtering from working.
• If SpamSieve can’t find an account’s Junk mailbox when training a message as spam, it now reports an error that shows the name of the problematic account.

General

• You can now close the Settings window by pressing the Esc key.
• When you click an esoteric preferences link to enable or disable debug logging, the change now takes effect immediately, without having to restart SpamSieve.
• Worked around several macOS bugs that could cause crashes when trying to access the Contacts database.
• Diagnostic report files are much smaller, as they no longer include excerpts from the verbose system console log, only from SpamSieve’s own log files.
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur when updating the log after training a message.
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur when reporting an error about a database that couldn’t be saved.
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur because the Bayesian classifier’s internal state was invalid.

Documentation

• SpamSieve 3.1 introduced a workaround of opening help pages in the user’s Web browser because the system help viewer doesn’t work properly on macOS 15.
  • Fixed a bug where help pages could open in a text editor instead of in your browser if you’d changed the default opener for .html files.
  • You can now hold down the Option key when clicking a help link to switch between using a Web browser and using the help viewer, e.g. if you prefer the non-default behavior for your version of macOS or to test whether the help viewer is working properly.
• Fixed the PowerMail help links in the Settings ‣ Other Clients window.
• Improved the following sections of the manual:
  • Correct All Mistakes
  • Filter spam messages in other mailboxes
  • Log
  • Prune full message data in log
  • Setting Up Airmail
  • Turning Off the Yahoo Mail Spam Filter
  • Why do good messages keep going to the Junk or Spam mailbox?
  • Why do good messages move to the wrong inbox when trained in Apple Mail?
  • Why is SpamSieve not catching my spam?

SpamSieve 3.1.1 works with macOS 10.13 through macOS 15 and requires an e-mail client. Older SpamSieve versions are available for older versions of macOS. In-depth information about SpamSieve is available in the manual.

If you enjoy using SpamSieve, please take a moment to review it on MacUpdate or to mention it on Twitter, Mastodon, Facebook, or your own site. We’d really appreciate it.

Version 1.9.16 of EagleFiler is now available.

EagleFiler makes organizing and managing your information easy. It lets you archive and search mail, Web pages, PDF files, word processing documents, images, and more. Use it to collect information from a variety of sources. Browse different types of files using a familiar three-pane interface. Organize them into folders and annotate them with tags and notes, or leave everything in one folder and pin-point the information you need using the live search. Since EagleFiler stores its library in Finder format, you can use it in concert with the other tools in your Mac ecosystem.

EagleFiler is a digital filing cabinet, an information organizer, and a snippet manager. You can use it to write a journal, track the files for a project or job, save your favorite Web pages locally, store financial statements, run a paperless office, plan a trip, archive your e-mail correspondence, search mailing list archives, or research a purchase. Use EagleFiler as a bookmark manager, a recipe database, and an issue tracker. Store scientific papers, assemble a scrapbook, or gather notes for a legal case or college course. It’s the most flexible tool on your Mac.

This is a free update that includes the following enhancements:

• Improved the formatting of community notes and quote tweets when importing from X/Twitter.
• Worked around a bug in macOS 15 where sometimes the system help viewer wouldn’t open to the right help page. EagleFiler will instead open help files in the user’s Web browser.
• Fixed a bug where Merge Mailboxes/Message Files might fail if the files were stored in iCloud Drive but not downloaded to the Mac.
• Fixed a bug where EagleFiler might improperly recognize certain folders as mailboxes when importing.
• EagleFiler no longer triggers the “find devices on local networks” prompt on macOS 15.
• Made some changes to track down an issue where files stored in OneDrive on macOS 15 might be incorrectly reported as missing.
• Removed support for Growl, as all supported macOS versions now have Notification Center built-in.
• Removed various unused code.
• Fixed the broken help button in the Settings window.
• The diagnostic report now includes information about the app’s logs, the crash logs folder, and components that could cause AppleScript errors.
• EagleFiler is now built with Xcode 16 and the macOS 15 SDK.

EagleFiler 1.9.16 works with macOS 10.13 through macOS 15. Older EagleFiler versions are available for older versions of macOS. In-depth information about EagleFiler is available in the manual.

If you enjoy using EagleFiler, please take a moment to review it on the Mac App Store, Product Hunt, or MacUpdate or to mention it on Twitter, Mastodon, Facebook, or your own site. We’d really appreciate it.

Update (2024-11-21): EagleFiler 1.9.16 has been submitted to the Mac App Store and is awaiting approval from Apple.

Update (2024-11-21): EagleFiler 1.9.16 is now available from the Mac App Store.

Version 3.1 of SpamSieve is now available.

Save time by adding powerful spam filtering to the e-mail client on your Mac. SpamSieve gives you back your inbox, using Bayesian spam filtering to provide amazing accuracy that’s constantly improving. SpamSieve learns and adapts to your mail, so it’s able to block nearly all the junk—without putting good messages in the Junk mailbox. It’s quick and easy to control SpamSieve from within Apple Mail, Outlook, Airmail, MailMate, GyazMail, Mailsmith, and more.

SpamSieve running on your Mac can keep the spam off your iPhone/iPad, and you can even train SpamSieve from your iOS device. SpamSieve protects your privacy. It does not need access to your mail account login and does not transmit your mail data anywhere. All the processing is done on your Mac.

SpamSieve 3.1 is a free update for those who have already purchased the SpamSieve 3.0 upgrade. If you’re using SpamSieve 2 and haven’t upgraded yet, the easiest way is to first let SpamSieve install the new version. At launch, it will show the Purchase window, and you can click the Check Upgrade Options button to get the upgrade discount without having to enter your old serial number.

The changes in this version are:

Highlights

• Made various changes to improve SpamSieve’s filtering accuracy.
• Previously, the Train as Good and Train as Spam commands in SpamSieve’s Message menu were disabled while you were in the app when there was nothing for them to apply to, i.e. if no messages were selected in the Corpus or Log. To reduce confusion, since some people thought these commands were meant to be used from within Apple Mail or Outlook, they are now always enabled but will open the Train as Good/Spam section of the help when not applicable, as that will direct you to the various ways that you can train SpamSieve from within your mail client.
• If macOS incorrectly reports that SpamSieve is damaged when installing or updating the app, we now have a Download Fixer tool to help.
• SpamSieve no longer triggers the “find devices on local networks” prompt on macOS 15. It never needed that access, anyway. If, for some reason, you still get the local network access prompt, it’s fine to click Don’t Allow.
• SpamSieve is once again localized in Korean.

Blocklist and Allowlist

• If SpamSieve hangs due to a bug in Swift Regex, it is now able to report the problematic pattern and string, so that you can temporarily disable the offending rule and so that we can make a bug report to Apple.
• Added some protections to help prevent rules from malfunctioning if the rules database is damaged.

Log

• When you copy a log entry as text, it now shows more information about the corpus and rule changes.
• If there’s an error reading an inessential part of the log database, SpamSieve will now just log the error instead of preventing you from using the app.

Apple Mail

• If you’re using Proton Mail, we recommend using the Move it to the Trash if the spam score is at least setting to have SpamSieve move all spam messages to the Trash instead of to the Junk mailbox. This will ensure that Proton Mail removes the spam messages from the special All Mail mailbox.
• Fixed a problem where, if you flagged a good message at the same time SpamSieve was filtering it, the flag could be overwritten.
• Worked around a Mail bug where it could lose a message if you were manually refiltering messages that were already in the Junk mailbox.
• Fixed an issue where, if a mail account was reset or Mail’s database was rebuilt, SpamSieve might reprocess old messages if they were still marked as unread.
• Worked around a Mail bug that could cause a modal error to be reported (and block filtering and use of the app) when moving a message on an Exchange server.
• The Select Mailboxes to Filter… sheet now prevents the selection of additional sent and notes mailboxes, as these do not receive new messages that should be filtered.
• Added some diagnostics to help track down a Mail bug that can cause messages to be inappropriately flagged orange when using the Mail extension.
• The diagnostic report now includes additional information for troubleshooting problems with Mail’s database and Mail extensions.

Microsoft Outlook

• When there’s an error processing an Outlook message, SpamSieve now reports the account name and folder, not just the subject of the message.

General

• Updated the Dutch, French, and German localizations.
• Fixed an issue where SpamSieve could get confused if you corrected a mistake but the mail server had changed the message data in between the prediction and the training.
• Tried to work around a macOS bug that could cause it to incorrectly report the SpamSieve application file as damaged.
• The × button in progress views now has an accessibility label.
• When trying to open a database file that’s damaged, SpamSieve will now move it aside (saving it for diagnostic and recovery purposes) and start a fresh database automatically, rather than blocking the app from launching.
• Fixed a problem where database errors caused by the disk being full were not handled properly because macOS was incorrectly reporting the error.
• Removed various code that is no longer used.
• The diagnostic report now includes information about the app’s logs, the crash logs folder, and components that could cause AppleScript errors.
• SpamSieve is now built with Xcode 16 and the macOS 15 SDK.

Documentation

• Worked around a bug in macOS 15 where sometimes the system help viewer wouldn’t open to the right help page. SpamSieve will instead open help files in the user’s Web browser.
• Improved the following sections of the manual:
  • Checking the MailMate Setup
  • Checking the Outlook Setup
  • Correct All Mistakes
  • Hiding Special Gmail Mailboxes From IMAP
  • How can I copy my training data to another machine?
  • How can I rebuild Apple Mail’s database?
  • If Apple Mail Is Running Slowly
  • Move it to the Trash if the spam score is at least
  • Rescuing Good Messages Caught By a Server Filter
  • Setting Up a MailMate Drone
  • Train as Good/Spam

AppleScript

• Optimized the scripting support so that it is now possible to access the entire contents of a large corpus without overwhelming AppleScript, as demonstrated here.
• The training script commands now report an error if you forget to supply the message data.

SpamSieve 3.1 works with macOS 10.13 through macOS 15 and requires an e-mail client. Older SpamSieve versions are available for older versions of macOS. In-depth information about SpamSieve is available in the manual.

If you enjoy using SpamSieve, please take a moment to review it on MacUpdate or to mention it on Twitter, Mastodon, Facebook, or your own site. We’d really appreciate it.

Version 2.8.5 of ToothFairy is now available.

ToothFairy is a Mac menu bar utility that lets you connect AirPods to your Mac with a single click or keypress. It also works with other Bluetooth headphones and with input devices such as mice, keyboards, and game pad controllers. You can see at a glance which devices are connected, as well as their battery levels. ToothFairy can make music and videos sound better by using a higher quality codec for audio output. It can also run scripts when Bluetooth devices connect or disconnect.

This is a free update that includes the following changes:

• Fixed a bug where sometimes ToothFairy wouldn’t auto-launch at login.
• Improved the following sections of the manual:
  • Run shell script after connecting/disconnecting
  • Sending in a Bluetooth Log

ToothFairy 2.8.5 works with macOS 10.13 through macOS 15 and requires a Bluetooth device. In-depth information about ToothFairy is available in the manual.

If you enjoy using ToothFairy, please take a moment to review it on the Mac App Store, Product Hunt, or MacUpdate or to mention it on Twitter, Mastodon, Facebook, or your own site. We’d really appreciate it.

Version 3.6.8 of DropDMG is now available.

DropDMG makes it easy to create a professional disk image for your app. Disk images pack entire folders or disks into a single compressed file, either for transport across the Internet or simply for backup or archival. They are Apple’s preferred format for distributing Mac software and the only archive format whose contents you can directly access in the Mac Finder—no extraction or third-party software required.

Deliver your Mac app on a .dmg file with a software license agreement, a custom volume icon, and a precise icon layout atop a Retina-optimized background picture. Customers can install simply by dragging and dropping the app onto the convenient Applications folder link. Code-sign your .dmg so that macOS knows it can be trusted after download.

This is a free update for owners of DropDMG 3.0 that includes the following enhancements:

• Made various updates for macOS 15 and Xcode 16.
• Worked around a macOS issue that could cause disk image creation to fail with a file permissions error.
• Worked around a macOS issue that could cause Finder to fail to save the view options or icon positions for a layout.
• Improved DropDMG’s error reporting to AppleScripts and to the command-line tool when a disk imaging operation fails.
• If macOS incorrectly reports that DropDMG is damaged when installing or updating the app, we now have a Download Fixer tool to help.
• Added MaxJobs to the esoteric preferences. This makes it possible to control how many operations DropDMG performs simultaneously. Normally, DropDMG will let you queue as many operations as you want and will execute two simultaneously. This balances the desire to quickly finish the first operation while still allowing other operations to complete. For example, encrypting a small document that you want to e-mail would not have to wait until backing up an entire hard drive had finished. You can also set DropDMG to execute only one operation at a time (e.g. to speed things up if you want to queue many operations that use the same slow hard drive) or three or more (e.g. if you are using fast SSD storage and your Mac has lots of processor cores).
• Added LayoutBackgroundFolderName to the esoteric preferences. This makes it possible to customize the name of the invisible folder where DropDMG stores the background picture file.
• Fixed a bug where DropDMG could incorrectly report a license agreement error when converting a disk image.

DropDMG 3.6.8 works with macOS 10.13 through macOS 15. Older DropDMG versions are available for older versions of macOS. In-depth information about DropDMG is available in the manual.

If you enjoy using DropDMG, please take a moment to review it on the Mac App Store, Product Hunt, or MacUpdate or to mention it on Twitter, Mastodon, Facebook, or your own site. We’d really appreciate it.

Update (2024-09-26): DropDMG 3.6.8 has been submitted to the Mac App Store and is awaiting approval from Apple.

Update (2024-09-27): DropDMG 3.6.8 is now available from the Mac App Store.

Version 1.9.15 of EagleFiler is now available.

EagleFiler makes organizing and managing your information easy. It lets you archive and search mail, Web pages, PDF files, word processing documents, images, and more. Use it to collect information from a variety of sources. Browse different types of files using a familiar three-pane interface. Organize them into folders and annotate them with tags and notes, or leave everything in one folder and pin-point the information you need using the live search. Since EagleFiler stores its library in Finder format, you can use it in concert with the other tools in your Mac ecosystem.

EagleFiler is a digital filing cabinet, a research assistant, snippet collector, and document organizer. You can use it to write a journal, track all the files for a project or job, manage your bookmarks, save your favorite Web articles, store financial statements and receipts, run a paperless office, plan a trip, collect your course notes, archive your e-mail correspondence, search mailing list archives, research a purchase, remember recipes to cook or books to read, store scientific papers, sort photos, gather legal case notes, or assemble a scrapbook. It’s the most flexible tool on your Mac.

This is a free update that includes the following enhancements:

• Improved EagleFiler’s support for importing from X/Twitter. When you press the capture key, tweets are now imported as HTML files rather than as plain text files.
  • This works in Safari, Google Chrome, Brave Browser, and Microsoft Edge. Previously, only Safari was supported.
  • This requires enabling JavaScript access in Web browsers.
  • Extraneous text is removed, and the filename and title are also improved.
• When capturing a Web page in Safari, EagleFiler has long been able to preserve the selected text in the record’s note. This can be useful for recording that a certain part of the page is important but also storing the full context in which it appears. This now works with Google Chrome, Brave Browser, and Microsoft Edge, too.
• When viewing a PDF file in Two Pages mode, the first page is now displayed as the cover, with pages 2 and 3 being the first ones displayed as a pair.
• Updated the following sections of the manual:
  • Importing From iOS
  • Services
  • Show Tab Bar
• Made some improvements to EagleFiler’s detection of the current library when using the capture key.
• If macOS incorrectly reports that EagleFiler is damaged when installing or updating the app, we now have a Download Fixer tool to help.
• Fixed a problem where the name of the current Safari profile could be included in the filename when capturing from Safari. For best results, be sure to follow the Enabling JavaScript Access in Web Browsers instructions.
• Fixed a bug where indexing could be delayed if another library was busy verifying.
• Fixed importing of FastMail message files on macOS 15.
• Fixed a bug where the Activity window could look like it was indexing when indexing was disabled.
• Fixed a bug where capturing from Twitter didn’t work from the x.com domain.
• Added RevealRecordInParent to the esoteric preferences, which lets you control whether opening a record link shows the record in its containing folder rather than in the Records source.
• Improved the layout of 4th-level section headers in the PDF version of the manual.
• Updated to version 1.6.1 of the SkimNotes framework.

EagleFiler 1.9.15 works with macOS 10.13 through macOS 15. Older EagleFiler versions are available for older versions of macOS. In-depth information about EagleFiler is available in the manual.

If you enjoy using EagleFiler, please take a moment to review it on the Mac App Store, Product Hunt, or MacUpdate or to mention it on Twitter, Mastodon, Facebook, or your own site. We’d really appreciate it.

Update (2024-08-20): EagleFiler 1.9.15 has been submitted to the Mac App Store and is awaiting approval from Apple.

Update (2024-08-20): EagleFiler 1.9.15 is now available from the Mac App Store.

Version 3.0.5 of SpamSieve is now available.

Save time by adding powerful spam filtering to the e-mail client on your Mac. SpamSieve gives you back your inbox, using Bayesian spam filtering to provide amazing accuracy that’s constantly improving. SpamSieve learns and adapts to your mail, so it’s able to block nearly all the junk—without putting good messages in the Junk mailbox. It’s quick and easy to control SpamSieve from within Apple Mail, Outlook, Airmail, MailMate, GyazMail, Mailsmith, and more.

SpamSieve running on your Mac can keep the spam off your iPhone/iPad, and you can even train SpamSieve from your iOS device. SpamSieve protects your privacy. It does not need access to your mail account login and does not transmit your mail data anywhere. All the processing is done on your Mac.

SpamSieve 3.0.5 is a free update for those who have already purchased the SpamSieve 3.0 upgrade. If you’re using SpamSieve 2 and haven’t upgraded yet, the easiest way is to first let SpamSieve install the new version. At launch, it will show the Purchase window, and you can click the Check Upgrade Options button to get the upgrade discount without having to enter your old serial number.

The changes in this version are:

Apple Mail

• Preliminary testing shows that SpamSieve is compatible with macOS 15 Sequoia Developer Beta 2. Further updates may be required when Apple updates Mail in a subsequent Sequoia beta.
• Worked around some problems where Mail could temporarily hang during spam filtering if the network connection was very slow or when encountering a macOS bug where Mail redownloads messages that have already been downloaded. If SpamSieve detects that Mail is slow reading a message, it will postpone filtering for a while to give it time to finish downloading everything. It can also help to go to Mail ‣ Settings ‣ Accounts ‣ Account Information and set Download Attachments to All for each account. This will encourage Mail to fully download messages right away.
• The Filter Now button in Settings ‣ Apple Mail ‣ Filtering can now be used to manually filter the Mail inboxes, even when automatic filtering is disabled or postponed.
• Worked around an issue where sometimes filtering in Mail didn’t work because Mail was so bogged down that it couldn’t read the inboxes for SpamSieve in a timely manner.
• The mailbox outline for Filter spam messages in other mailboxes now recognizes the lowercase spam and junk names as being for mailboxes that should not be filtered.
• Fixed a bug where SpamSieve would try to repair files related to Mail plug-ins when running on macOS 14, which doesn’t support plug-ins.
• Fixed a bug where updating certain settings could cause a spurious error to be logged if you were not using the Mail plug-in.
• Improved the error reporting to track down a Mail AppleScript issue when finding new messages to filter.

Microsoft Outlook

• The Settings ‣ Outlook ‣ Setup window clarifies that, when using Enable spam filtering for Inbox, the non-spam messages left in the inbox are marked with the Good category after SpamSieve has processed them.

Settings

• Fixed a bug where the notification score slider was too narrow on macOS 10.13.
• Modernized the editable text fields to use shaded bezels instead of solid lines.
• Secondary label text throughout the user interface now uses the modern gray coloring.

Icons

• Due to a macOS bug, clicking the SpamSieve menu bar icon does not show the menu when the Mac has multiple displays, a window on the secondary display is full screen, and you are clicking the menu bar icon on that display. You can work around this by accessing the SpamSieve commands in another way (e.g. via the keyboard shortcuts or the menu bar icon on the main display) or by unchecking Show Dock icon in the settings.
• Fixed a bug where the application icon in the Dock or Command-Tab switcher could appear pixellated when it was badged to show that SpamSieve was in the process of filtering or training a message.

General

• SpamSieve now disables automatic filtering for Apple Mail and Outlook when the Mac is not connected to the Internet, to avoid hangs that could occur when trying to read messages that can’t be downloaded from the server.
• The Open in External Viewer command now works in the Corpus and Log windows when the table view has a selected message but doesn’t have keyboard focus.
• Improved the error reporting when a database can’t be accessed because the disk is full.
• Worked around a problem where SpamSieve could crash if Core Data’s conflict resolution failed because the database file was damaged.
• Made various updates for macOS 15, Xcode 16, and Swift 6.

Documentation

• Improved the following sections of the manual:
  • Apple Mail Customization
  • If Apple Mail Is Running Slowly
  • Log
  • Move it to the Trash if the spam score is at least
  • Only Filtering Certain Accounts
  • Show menu bar icon
  • Uninstalling SpamSieve

SpamSieve 3.0.5 works with macOS 10.13 through macOS 15 and requires an e-mail client. Older SpamSieve versions are available for older versions of macOS. In-depth information about SpamSieve is available in the manual.

If you enjoy using SpamSieve, please take a moment to review it on MacUpdate or to mention it on Twitter, Mastodon, Facebook, or your own site. We’d really appreciate it.

Version 3.0.4 of SpamSieve is now available.

Save time by adding powerful spam filtering to the e-mail client on your Mac. SpamSieve gives you back your inbox, using Bayesian spam filtering to provide amazing accuracy that’s constantly improving. SpamSieve learns and adapts to your mail, so it’s able to block nearly all the junk—without putting good messages in the Junk mailbox. It’s quick and easy to control SpamSieve from within Apple Mail, Outlook, Airmail, MailMate, GyazMail, Mailsmith, and more.

SpamSieve running on your Mac can keep the spam off your iPhone/iPad, and you can even train SpamSieve from your iOS device. SpamSieve protects your privacy. It does not need access to your mail account login and does not transmit your mail data anywhere. All the processing is done on your Mac.

SpamSieve 3.0.4 is a free update for those who have already purchased the SpamSieve 3.0 upgrade. If you’re using SpamSieve 2 and haven’t upgraded yet, the easiest way is to first let SpamSieve install the new version. At launch, it will show the Purchase window, and you can click the Check Upgrade Options button to get the upgrade discount without having to enter your old serial number.

The changes in this version are:

General

• You can now use the Message submenu commands within the SpamSieve menu bar icon to train SpamSieve from Apple Mail or Outlook, for users who didn’t see the top-level commands inside the menu bar icon.
• Made some changes to improve performance on Macs with spinning hard drives.
• Improved the way the Text to Match column in rules windows truncates text that doesn’t fit.
• You can now press Command-C in the Statistics window as a shortcut for clicking the Copy Statistics button.
• Toolbar buttons no longer shift position when the Flag label changes to Unflag.
• Updated the German localization and Settings window layout.
• SpamSieve now reports an error if the Edit Addresses button can’t access your card in Contacts.
• Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when quitting SpamSieve while a window was in the process of reloading.
• Fixed an issue where SpamSieve could be double-launched after restarting your Mac, possibly causing the Settings window to be opened when it should have been hidden. Also, to avoid this problem, we recommend that you not add SpamSieve to System Settings ‣ General ‣ Login Items ‣ Open at Login. It should only be under Allow in the Background.
• If a database file is damaged, SpamSieve now marks it as such and moves it aside. At the next launch, SpamSieve will create a fresh database so that you don’t continually run into the same error that prevents you from launching the app.
• If a database can’t be saved, SpamSieve now logs the changes to a series of text files so that there’s a chance at recovering the data or figuring out what caused the problem.

Apple Mail

• Fixed a bug where filtering could be delayed for a long time after the Mac woke from sleep, if it had gone to sleep while SpamSieve was waiting for a response from Mail.
• Fixed a problem where filtering or training a large batch of messages in Mail could be slow or cause SpamSieve to hang or crash.
• SpamSieve is more responsive and better at reporting errors when Mail is not responding.
• Worked around a macOS bug that could cause a hang while waiting for Mail to respond to a command.
• When using the Mail plug-in, SpamSieve no longer wastes time checking for messages in the inbox that need to be unflagged.
• SpamSieve is better at handling AppleScript errors when training from Mail.
• SpamSieve reports a better error message if Mail filtering is slow and the problem can be fixed by switching from the Mail extension to the Mail plug-in.
• Improved the error reporting when SpamSieve is unable to read the accounts from Mail.
• Improved the error reporting when setting up the Mail plug-in.
• Worked around a Mail bug that could cause a spam message on an Exchange server to lose its body when moving it to the Junk mailbox.
• Fixed a bug where some of SpamSieve’s script error codes could possibly conflict with Apple ones.
• Added AppleMailMarkGoodRead to the esoteric preferences, for those who want SpamSieve to mark incoming good messages as read.
• The AppleMailMailboxListerExtraMailboxes option in the esoteric preferences can now be used with local mailboxes, to work around a Mail bug that hides certain mailboxes from SpamSieve.

Microsoft Outlook

• When training an Outlook message as spam, SpamSieve now removes the Uncertain Junk category.
• When refiltering an Outlook message that turns out to be spam, SpamSieve now removes the Good category.

Filtering

• When using macOS 14.4 or later, SpamSieve uses Swift Regex instead of ICU for matching blocklist and allowlist rules.
• Worked around a macOS bug that could cause a crash when using a regular expression to process message text.
• Worked around a macOS bug that could cause a hang when detecting the language of some message text.
• Improved the handling of non-breaking space characters within words.

Log

• Fixed a problem where SpamSieve could hang when reporting an error if the log database couldn’t be saved.
• Log text that’s copied to the clipboard (or included in diagnostic reports) now uses consistent number formatting for message and word probabilities and has better descriptions for migrated rule predictions.
• Diagnostic reports now include summary information about the objects in each database.
• Diagnostic reports now include information to track down problems with the preferences not being saved.

Documentation

• Improved the following sections of the manual:
  • Checking the Apple Mail Setup
  • Checking the Outlook Setup
  • Move it to the Trash if the spam score is at least
  • Security & Privacy Access
  • Use Outlook/Entourage contacts
  • What can I do if the corpus is damaged?
  • Why are Apple Mail inbox messages not being processed?
  • Why are messages marked as spam in Apple Mail but not moved?
  • Why does a message disappear or go back to the Junk mailbox after I train it as good?
  • Why is SpamSieve not catching my spam?
• Improved the layout of 4th-level section headers in the PDF version of the manual.

SpamSieve 3.0.4 works with macOS 10.13 through macOS 14 and requires an e-mail client. Older SpamSieve versions are available for older versions of macOS. In-depth information about SpamSieve is available in the manual.

If you enjoy using SpamSieve, please take a moment to review it on MacUpdate or to mention it on Twitter, Mastodon, Facebook, or your own site. We’d really appreciate it.

Version 1.9.14 of EagleFiler is now available.

EagleFiler makes organizing and managing your information easy. It lets you archive and search mail, Web pages, PDF files, word processing documents, images, and more. Use it to collect information from a variety of sources. Browse different types of files using a familiar three-pane interface. Organize them into folders and annotate them with tags and notes, or leave everything in one folder and pin-point the information you need using the live search. Since EagleFiler stores its library in Finder format, you can use it in concert with the other tools in your Mac ecosystem.

EagleFiler is a digital filing cabinet, a research assistant, snippet collector, and document organizer. You can use it to write a journal, track all the files for a project or job, manage your bookmarks, save your favorite Web articles, store financial statements and receipts, run a paperless office, plan a trip, collect your course notes, archive your e-mail correspondence, search mailing list archives, research a purchase, remember recipes to cook or books to read, store scientific papers, sort photos, gather legal case notes, or assemble a scrapbook. It’s the most flexible tool on your Mac.

This is a free update that includes the following enhancements:

• Worked around a bug in Safari 17.4 that prevented the capture key from working.
• Worked around an issue where importing from Evernote could fail if the ENEX file contained a note with an invalid SVG file.
• Fixed an issue where the New Record ‣ From Clipboard command didn’t let you import by “pasting” a file after using Edit ‣ Copy in Finder.
• Updated the following sections of the manual:
  • How can I encrypt my files?
  • Importing From Safari
  • Importing Mail From Apple Mail
  • Importing Web Pages and URLs
• Fixed a bug where a phase search could incorrectly find a record where the search terms matched but not in the proper order.
• Fixed a bug where some files imported from Evernote could have truncated names or tags.
• Fixed a bug where importing from Evernote could fail if a note had multiple attachments with very long filenames that were similar.
• Fixed internal errors that could occur in the process of closing a library.

EagleFiler 1.9.14 works with macOS 10.13 through macOS 14. Older EagleFiler versions are available for older versions of macOS. In-depth information about EagleFiler is available in the manual.

If you enjoy using EagleFiler, please take a moment to review it on the Mac App Store, Product Hunt, or MacUpdate or to mention it on Twitter, Mastodon, Facebook, or your own site. We’d really appreciate it.

Update (2024-05-02): EagleFiler 1.9.14 has been submitted to the Mac App Store and is awaiting approval from Apple.

Update (2024-05-02): EagleFiler 1.9.14 is now available from the Mac App Store.