6.7.1   Show menu bar icon

Access Key Commands From Your Mail Client

You can train SpamSieve from within Apple Mail or Outlook using the SpamSieve menu bar icon at the top of the screen.

• The Train as Good/Spam commands operate on the messages that are selected in Apple Mail or Outlook (rather than in SpamSieve’s Corpus or Log window).
• The Filter Messages command lets you manually tell SpamSieve to filter the selected messages in your mail program. For example, you can select a mix of spam and good messages, and Filter Messages will move the spam messages to the Junk mailbox and leave the good ones in place. Filter Messages skips auto-training and notification, so it is suitable to use for bulk processing.

What If I Don’t See the SpamSieve Menu Bar Icon?

First, make sure that Show menu bar icon is checked. If you still don’t see it, the SpamSieve menu bar icon might not be visible if you have lots of other icons shown or if your Mac has a smaller screen. If there isn’t enough space to show the SpamSieve menu bar icon:

• You can remove other menu bar icons to make more space by Command-dragging them off the menu bar or by going to System Settings ‣ Control Center.
• The Control Center icon combines the functionality of many separate icons (Wi-Fi, Battery, Bluetooth, Sound, Battery, etc.), so some of the individual icons may not be necessary if you’re using Control Center.
• If your notebook Mac has a notch (camera housing) that covers the center of the menu bar, note that all of your icons need to fit on the right side of the notch. Even if there is empty menu bar space to the left of the notch, macOS will place any icons that overflow the right side directly in the notch (where they are invisible) rather than using the space to the left.
• If you can see the SpamSieve menu bar icon in some applications but not in others, you can give it priority by holding down the Command key and dragging it towards the right edge of the menu bar. That will ensure that it’s visible in Apple Mail or Outlook where you need to access it.
• You can still train SpamSieve from its Dock menu by clicking and holding on the Dock icon until the menu appears.
• You can still train SpamSieve using the keyboard shortcuts Command-Control-S (for Train as Spam) and Command-Control-G (for Train as Good).

Menu Bar Icon Colors

The SpamSieve menu bar icon changes color while an operation initiated by the menu or a hotkey is in progress (blue when filtering messages, green when training as good, and brown when training as spam).

When the Dock Icon Is Hidden

You can access all of SpamSieve’s menu commands from the menu bar icon if the Dock icon is hidden.

If SpamSieve is hidden from both the menu bar and the Dock, you can still access its settings by opening SpamSieve from your Applications folder when it’s already running.

Menu Not Shown

Due to a macOS bug, clicking the 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 keyboard shortcuts or the menu bar icon on the main display) or by unchecking Show Dock icon in the settings.