First, condolences to the Spamsieve dev. It must be hellish getting the final build at the same time as all your customers. Thanks for being patient with us and hopefully the community is being patient with you as well
I followed the instructions to reinstall the Spamsieve plugin and everything looks like its installed and working, but Spamsieve isnât actually catching the spam. In addition, the âTrainingâŚâ menu items in Mail donât do anything.
For example, if I click on a spam email and click Message --> Train as Spam, nothing happens. I even went through the Spamsieve settings menu available in menu to set everything up again and double checked the rules.
? If you open the Console application, do you see any errors in the Console Messages from Mail or SpamSieve when you use the training commands or Message > Apply Rules?
Iâm not sure what I did to fix it but its working now. It might simply have been rebooting that kicked something into gear.
I did have MailActon and MailTags installed but have since removed them. Between rebooting, cleaning out InputManagers, and deleting extra scripts from apps Iâm no longer using, something fixed it.
My apologies for not being able to give more specific info.
Me, too
Hi, Iâm having this problem, too. SpamSieve appears to work (launches, âTrain as Spamâ will move a message to the Spam folder, etc) but it wonât actually catch any spam before it lands in the inbox. No console errors when applying rules. I used to have MailTags and ActOn installed but they were deactivated during the move to Leopard and arenât in the /Bundles directory anymore. I donât have any other bundles installed.
I did notice that, after installing Leopard, the SpamSieve rule was mixed amongst some old Mail ActOn rules, including the âStop Processingâ rule, so I deleted those. Now the SpamSieve rule is the only one. Not sure yet if thatâll do anything.
FWIW, when moving to Leopard I did an âarchive and installâ rather than a straight upgrade.
Also, the amount of crud now in my Inbox is showing me quite effectively how well SpamSieve was working before!
hmm⌠the issue has returned. Now Spamsieve isnât working again even though it appears to be installed.
I noticed that Spamsieve doesnât launch automatically anymore when Apple Mail is checking for new Mail. When I launch it manually it still doesnât work, meaning selecting a spam in my inbox and doing Train as Spam through Mailâs menu doesnât do anything.
Things seem to be working now
OK, so having deleted the Act-On rules (bearing in mind that no Act-On Bundle was active) now things seem to be working. I sent myself a message and then quickly quit and relaunched Mail. On the relaunch, checking for mail resulted in SpamSieve starting up, my test message being delivered, and four pieces of spam getting caught directly in the Spam folder. This is the first time this has happened since upgrading. So maybe Act-Onâs left-over (and misplaced) âStop Processing Rulesâ rule was the problem after all. But this is just a guess.
That sounds right to me. And, if you donât want to delete the Act-On rules, unchecking them or moving the SpamSieve rule to the top of the list should also work.
There is no bundles dir in the main Library/Mail dir.
Right now its started working again and I donât know what triggered it. Next time it stops working Iâll be sure to open the console app and look for any errors.
Spam Wonât Delete
I reinstalled SpamSieve after installing Leopard and that went well. It catches spam as before, but I canât delete the spam. When I select messages in the spam folder and delete them, it looks like theyâre getting filtered again and put back in the spam. The rules seem to be the same as before. Any ideas on how not to refilter deleted messages?
Are you using POP or IMAP? Is your Spam mailbox local (On My Mac) or on the server? Are you able to delete messages in other mailboxes (particularly mailboxes that you have rules filtering messages into)? If you open SpamSieveâs log, do you see new âPredictedâ entries for the messages that you think are getting filtered again?
However, I found the problem. Something got messed up with my spam mailbox. When I rebuilt the mailbox, I could then delete the spam and it would stay deleted. Thanks for the help. SpamSieve is great.
Okay, started happening again. Spamsieve was working perfectly this morning and now its stopped again even though the app is still running.
Here is what console.app reports when I select a spam message and to âTrain as spamâŚâ
10/29/07 2:41:40 PM 2007-10-29 Mail[216] An exception was thrown during execution of an NSScriptCommandâŚ
10/29/07 2:41:40 PM 2007-10-29 Mail[216] Could not create mailbox with name:Spam. Reason:The mailbox â~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/Spam.mboxâ already exists.
Hopefully thatâs helpful. Iâm not terribly familiar with console.app so if there is something specific I can do to get you a better report, please let me know.
This looks like a bug in Mail. The good news is that by the time it agains to this point itâs probably already trained SpamSieve with the message (you could check SpamSieveâs log to be sure) so you could finish the job manually by deleting the message or dragging it to the Spam mailbox.
Training Doesnât Work
Installed Leopard. Now, if I click on a spam email and click Message --> Train as Spam, nothing happens.
Iâve done everything mentioned here on the forum. So, I too am having this problem.
Same here (I get the same report in Console as âknight777â). But: when I do âTrain as Spamâ, the background of that email in the inbox list gets a colored background. Same background color with ALL emails I tried.
âTrains as goodâ wonât work here, neither. After training as good, marking in the list and trying âTrains as spamâ, same as before is happening (not moving the email as in the rule and giving it a background color in the list).