Version 2.2.4 of SpamSieve is now available.

This is a free update that includes the following changes:

• Increased the speed of SpamSieve’s message processing.
• Processing messages with Entourage is much faster. To realize the speed increase, re-install SpamSieve’s Entourage scripts and let it replace the existing ones.
• Improved accuracy through better HTML and header processing. (It is not necessary to reset the corpus.)
• Colors to indicate spamminess in Apple Mail are now enabled by default.
• Can now play sounds (and bounce the Dock icon) when mail arrives, even if SpamSieve or a mail program is frontmost.
• Added option to Entourage’s Change Settings to make all spam messages marked with category Junk instead of marking some of them with Uncertain Junk.
• Added more standard blocklist rules for non-Latin character sets.
• AppleScript errors complaining about not being able to find the SpamSieve application should be much less common now. If you do see such an error, asking SpamSieve to re-install the scripts for Apple Mail or Entourage (and letting it replace the existing scripts) should cure things.
• Improved name and serial number entry.
• The Edit Log command is no longer an alternate menu item.
• Can now load Entourage addresses when Launch Services can’t find Entourage.
• The default classifier reports better scores.
• The behavior of the default classifier (if no rules or other classifiers match, and the Bayesian classifier is disabled) may now be changed by setting the DefaultIsGood default. Normally this is YES, but you can set it to NO to make SpamSieve treat all non-whitelisted messages as spam.
• Pruning now is recorded in the log.
• Updated the Russian localization.
• Added Swedish and Vietnamese localizations.
• Expanded and improved the manual.
• The Entourage scripts no longer mark messages with multiple copies of the same category.
• Fixed bug where SpamSieve would sometimes incorrectly think that it had made a mistake (if auto-training was on and the user had asked it to reclassify a message).
• Fixed bug in the Change Settings scripts.
• No longer reports an error when trying to reset an empty initial corpus.
• Fixed crash when quitting after resetting an empty corpus.
• Fixed bug where SpamSieve would crash when reading a damaged corpus file.
• Worked around OS bug that could cause crashes when creating the Uncertain Junk category in Entourage.
• Notification dismissal now works on Tiger.
• Apple Mail’s scripts are now installed in the correct location when running on Tiger.

For more information, please see the SpamSieve Manual.