SpamSieve 2.9.37 – Robust spam filter for major email clients

SpamSieve understands what your spam looks like in order to block it all, but also learns what your legitimate messages look like to avoid confusion. SpamSieve only marks spam in your email client so you never lose any mail.

Works with:

• Apple Mail
• Airmail
• Emailer
• Entourage
• Outlook 2011
• Outlook Express
• Eudora 5.2 or 6.x (Sponsored or Paid)
• MailForge
• MailMate
• Mailsmith
• GyazMail
• Postbox
• PowerMail
• Thunderbird 2

Compatibility: OS X 10.7 or later 65 bit

Web Site: http://c-command.com/

What’s New in SpamSieve 2.9.37

• SpamSieve is now compatible with Apple Mail under macOS 10.15 (which is now in beta).
• It’s best to update to SpamSieve 2.9.37 now, before updating to macOS 10.15. If you are already using macOS 10.15, the SpamSieve 2.9.36 auto-updater won’t work, so you should instead use the Download button in the Software Update… window and install the update manually, according to the instructions in the Read Me file. Once you have SpamSieve 2.9.37, auto-updates on macOS 10.15 will work normally.
• Updated the documentation for macOS 10.15.
• The Outlook – Filter Mailboxes app is now notarized for compatibility with macOS 10.15. If you’ve already installed the helper app, it should not be necessary to update it, but this change is needed for future updates as well as new installations.
• Various Apple Mail error messages and documentation are better at reminding you to grant SpamSieve Full Disk Access when not having that might be the cause of the error, e.g. SpamSieve thinking its plug-in is not loaded.
• Apple Mail on macOS 10.15 has a bug where it will not load plug-ins that are installed in the normal location if you’ve redirected your home folder to another volume. If SpamSieve detects this situation, it will apply a workaround (moving the plug-in to an alternate location) and show an alert that explains what it’s doing.
• Renamed the “Setting Up Outlook 365” section of the manual to Setting Up Outlook, as it covers all current versions of Outlook, not just 365. This section has also been substantially rewritten to make it clearer what to do for each type of account.
• The Can other Apple Mail plug-ins cause problems with SpamSieve? section of the manual now recommends using Mail’s own plug-in manager instead of manipulating the Bundles folder directly.
• Fixed a bug where SpamSieve would sometimes ask you to enable an old Apple Mail plug-in (which wasn’t possible, because it was old) and quit, where instead it should have offered to update it first.
• Worked around an Apple Mail bug where training a message as good sometimes didn’t move it to the inbox because Mail reported a script error when checking whether the account was enabled.
• Improved the diagnostic report.
• Software Update… reports a better error message if it was unable to install the new version of the app.

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Descriptions for SpamSieve 2.9.30

Name: SpamSieve
Version: 2.9.30
Released: Jan 30th, 2018
Developer: Michael Tsai
Mac Platform: UB
OS Version: OS X 10.6 or later

Includes: Pre-K’ed (TNT)

Web Site: http://c-command.com/

Overview

Strong and highly customizable spam filter utility designed to integrate with your e-mail client and to adapt to your mailing habits

SpamSieve is a user-friendly macOS app designed from the get-go to give back control over your e-mail inbox by adding a powerful Bayesian spam filtering to your e-mail client.

Inbuilt and easy to use mail sorting engine based on effortless to create rules

Moreover, SpamSieve is both quick and easy to control from within your mail client, and you can also adjust how it interacts with the rest of your e-mail messages sorting rules.

Other spam filters will get worse over time as spammers adapt to their spam rules. In contrast, SpamSieve will actually get better over time as it will adjust to your mailing habits and contacts.

Also provides you with an e-mail address blocklist for manually blocking spam

By learning how the e-mail messages you receive look like, SpamSieve can block almost all of your spam mail, without having to redirect your good e-mails in the spam mailbox.

Furthermore, SpamSieve comes with a built-in blocklist tool, designed from the get-go to make it quicker and easier to automatically block e-mails from known spam domains.

Displays notifications about all e-mails that haven’t been caught in its spam net

In addition, when using SpamSieve with your e-mail account, you can set the e-mail alert system to send notifications of messages that have passed the spam verification.

This way, you can focus more on getting work done and worry less about getting rid of pointless and time-consuming spam mail reading.

Bundled whitelist for making sure that all your important e-mails go straight to your inbox

What’s more, with the help of SpamSieve’s whitelist feature, you can make sure that all contacts that you add within it will have their e-mails sent straight into your e-mail inbox, effectively skipping the spam filter validation.

Additionally, if you need to know if SpamSieve works with your e-mail client before downloading it to your Mac, a detailed list of all supported e-mail clients is available on the Requirements page of SpamSieve’s online Manual.

What’s new in SpamSieve 2.9.30

January 30th, 2018

• SpamSieve is now 64-bit only and requires macOS 10.7 or later.
• Made various changes to improve SpamSieve’s filtering accuracy.
• You can now click the Outlook – Filter Mailboxes icon in the Dock to make it filter the new inbox messages immediately instead of waiting until the next scheduled check.
• The Apple Mail – Remote Training script now auto-creates the TrainGood and TrainSpam mailboxes for you.
• Added the Apple Mail – Block Sender script.
• SpamSieve can now recover from certain types of damage to a Rules file by logging information about the damaged rules and modifying them so that they don’t cause crashes.
• Manually installing the Apple Mail plug-in now forces creation of a new launch agent .plist file, even if nothing has changed, to work around a problem with it not loading.
• The Apple Mail – Remote Training, Apple Mail – SaneBox, and Apple Mail – Server Junk Mailbox scripts work around a macOS bug that reports that System Events is not running.
• Outlook – Filter Mailboxes now works around an Outlook bug with getting folders by name.
• Improved the error reporting when a file cannot be written.
• Fixed a bug where SpamSieve could be fooled into parsing the wrong e-mail address out of a message header (Mailsploit).
• Fixed a bug where a misleading error message would be presented if a secure connection could not be made to the software update server.
• Fixed a spurious error in diagnostic reports on macOS 10.12 and later.
• Made various code modernizations.
• Updated the German localization.

Improved the following sections of the manual:

• Checking the Outlook 2016 Setup
• Only Filtering Certain Accounts
• Setting Up Apple Mail

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