the built-in manual, then your
SpamSieve application is probably damaged and you should download
the .dmg file again.
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should be
safe, since e-mail clients generally will include a blank subject
header if the user doesn't fill in the subject; it's the spammers who
leave it out entirely.
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or whitelist, that
shouldn't be a problem. However, as of the current SpamSieve, this
feature only works for the Subject header. I'll make a note to add
support for the To header as well.
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which rules are having
an effect.
* If a rule puts a good message in the spam folder, you'll be able
to see which one was responsible.
* When you mark the mail as good, the offending rule will
automatically be disabled.
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On Mar 11, 2006, at 6:53 AM, Jakob Riis wrote:
> But anyhow it would of course be better to know whether I could do
> something to prevent this from happening again, or if it's a bug that
> needs a fix!?
Have you checked your drive with Disk Utility or DiskWarrior?
--Michael
the evaluate script by installing
a fresh copy of the PowerMail application.
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On Jan 27, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Karel Gillissen wrote:
>> And that's why the read-me recommends that you double-click SpamSieve
>> after updating it.
> And if that fails, Michael, any advise?
Does it start when you mark messages as spam/goo
l the next time that PM was launched.
And that's why the read-me recommends that you double-click SpamSieve
after updating it.
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ow.
The instructions are available here:
<http://c-command.com/spamsieve/manual-ah/>
and also in SpamSieve's Help menu. The first 30 days are free; after
that, it costs $25.
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spam. What do the "Predicted: Good" entries (if any)
from SpamSieve's log say about the messages?
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nce you say you've been having general accuracy problems recently,
I'd like to take a closer look and see what's going on. Please send
these files:
/Users//Library/Logs/SpamSieve/SpamSieve Log
/Users//Library/Preferences/com.c-command.SpamSieve.plist
to <[EMAI
ail immediately moved back to the spam folder.
Normally, this would work the way you want; that it doesn't in this
case is probably another symptom of the above.
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helpful to clean out the rules,
though you can if you want. Rebuilding the corpus every year or so
(depending on how many messages you receive) *is* useful, though. If
you've got training tips enabled in SpamSieve, it will tell you when
to consider doing that.
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g file to me at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
command.com> so that I can investigate this. It sounds like there may
be a problem with your SpamSieve-PowerMail installation such that
marking the messages as good isn't adding the senders to SpamSieve's
whitelist.
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continue to use it with Apple Mail; and if you already have
SpamSieve, you don't have to buy it again if you switch to PowerMail.
The training data is shared among all the mail clients.
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, the "Use Mac OS X Address Book" option does apply to
PowerMail, if you have PowerMail set to sync its address book.
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On Dec 25, 2004, at 6:13 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
> Anyway, I decided to use PM5.1 on my Deal-450 studio machine for now,
> but
> SpamSieve won't take my serial number. Is it machine ID specific?
No, however the name does matter. In your case, the name is "A-NO-NE
Music&
an
> earlier
> version of SpamSieve.
Probably. Please let me know if you see any new rules like that being
created.
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; are
> automatically whitelisted. It would be better if only names that are
> reasonably distinct get whitelisted - e.g. first/second name
> combinations
> ("Steve Smith").
For exactly this reason, SpamSieve 2.2.2 and later do not automatically
whitelist simple names.
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erences, then SpamSieve will
use perl to check whether the sender is on the Habeas whitelist.
However, this is not "indexing," and the perl process will most likely
run for only a fraction of a second.
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as
non-spam, SpamSieve trained itself with this message. When it saw the
second message, it had already learned from the first (nearly
identical) one, so it thought the second one was much less spammy. When
you mark both messages as spam in PowerMail, it will learn that they
are spam.
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oesn't get caught with this much high SPAM rating.
SpamSieve's log will say why it made that prediction for this message.
Order confirmations often have spammy characteristics, so it's best to
train SpamSieve with any saved ones that you have ahead of time, so
that it will lear
e sequences of
letters that *look* like spaced-out words.
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mark them as spam
because the From is in the address book, and it will also be able to
learn from the message contents.
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from people in your address book (or previous recipients). In that
case, SpamSieve will never see the messages, and so it will not be able
to notify you about them. A workaround would be to set the condition to
"Always."
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set msg's online status to marked for
deletion
end if
end if
end try
end repeat
end tell
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ant those messages redirected to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perhaps you can use this script as a starting point:
<http://www.c-command.com/scripts/spamsieve/powermail-redirect-
good.shtml>
e.g. by moving the:
set theRedirect to redirect m to {redirectAddress}
but why not (\w|\d)?
That's word characters and digits; we want to include spaces.
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at adds it to AppleScript:
<http://www.lazerware.com/software.html>
but I think it doesn't work on OS X.
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AppleScript's text item delimiters to theString
set theCount to (length of (theBody's text items)) - 1
set filter criterion result to (theCount >= 2)
end repeat
end tell
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these empty senders where to be whitelisted (!)
Or, rather, PowerMail whitelisted it before it got to the step of
asking SpamSieve what it thought.
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pleScript? But I'm not a good script-writer.
> ;-)
The hard part is triggering it at the proper time. I'm not sure how to
do that with PowerMail, but if you can figure it out, here's a script
to use:
<http://c-command.com/scripts/spamsieve/
lyzed this message to see whether it
was spam. Somehow, your PowerMail filter that says "Evaluate spam
rating" isn't being applied (perhaps because of other filters
interfering), or isn't working.
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On May 31, 2004, at 8:59 PM, Marlyse Comte wrote:
> Anyway, SpamSieve just ceases to work, in 2 days not one spam message
> got sent to the spam folder, all goes into the InTray (as reported
> earlier).
Do these messages show up as "Predicted" in SpamSieve'
suppose it's possible that the "SpamSieve - Evaluate.scpt" file
inside PowerMail is damaged. If that's the case, re-installing 5.0
would help.
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itself? Perhaps you should go to
> SpamSieve's website and enter it there?
Coupons may be entered either in SpamSieve's Purchase window or at the
online store.
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se from the SpamSieve
menu, enter it in the text field, and click Redeem.
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ieve will work with PowerMail 5, and the $29 PowerMail upgrade
does not include SpamSieve.
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e number of messages in the corpus should be unchanged.
> I want to use 2.1.4 (I'll update from 2.1) but surely I also want to
> keep
> my original files and statistics?
No matter which version of SpamSieve you use, it will alawys use the
data and statistics in ~/Library/Applica
am rating 50
Actions:
Move message into folder Spam
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uplicates. Or it could be that
SpamSieve didn't actually predict that 68 of them were good; maybe
another filter stopped the processing before the SpamSieve filter
executed. To tell for sure, I'd have to see your SpamSieve Log file.
Mail it to me at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, if you like.
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sent Apple Mail's filter; it seems to be a separate pass
to catch the spams that Apple Mail misses. In any case, this
transforming pass is built into SpamSieve, so you don't need an extra
script to do it.
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n
set subject of m to (spamMarker & subject of m)
end if
Then you can write a filter criterion that looks for subjects starting
with "##" (or whatever marker you choose).
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think that's the problem There are more than a thousand seed spam
messages, so if you only added a few dozen good messages they may be
being drowned out. Do you have more good messages that you could add?
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ow did
you upgrade to SpamSieve 2.0? Did you retrain with both kinds of
messages?
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On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 08:15 AM, aob_ml wrote:
> The problem with the external filters is the obvious poplock problem,
> when the filter tries to connect at the same time.
There's no POP locking problem with SpamSieve because PowerMail is what
downloads the messages.
onization feature. Sorry for
the confusion.
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ieve automatically uses your address book as a white list, so
> there's no need to set any conditions for running the script. Have it
> run for ALL messages.
SpamSieve automatically uses Apple's address book. To use PowerMail's,
you need to set up the rule as Pat did.
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I'd like to know
what's going on, too. The main trick with Bayesian algorithms is
feeding them the right information. I'm working on making SpamSieve
better at extracting quality information from messages.
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tered, and there is
no time limit. I really believe in try-before-you-buy, especially for
an app like SpamSieve that needs to be trained.
Thanks for the feedback, cheshierkat. It's clear that I need to clarify
the wording in the nag window.
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th spam
> that I dont want.
Per Rick's suggestion to move the message twice, please try changing:
move m to message container spamFolderName
in the script to:
move m to message container "Mail Trash"
move m to message co
had
about 1300 messages.
If you want to go over this in more detail, please e-mail me at
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
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On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 03:29 AM, Dietmar Harms wrote:
> After reading the above, I threw SpamSieve off my hard disk and
> installed
> Spamfire. Advantage 1: I could import my address book so that mails
> from
> my friends are always accepted.
SpamSieve 1.3 can do this, too.
> Advan
; moves it into a spam folder within PowerMail. I delete the contents
> of this folder weekly after brief review.
>
> Also, Michael Tsai (SpamSieve's developer) is always working hard to
> make SpamSieve better. He reads this list. Perhaps he'll chime in...
I think you describe
ve if the name is not "A-NO-NE" *and* the address
is not "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I don't think there's a way to set this
up in the UI, but it could probably be done with an AppleScript
filter condition.
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sender
name might not exactly match the one in the address book, SpamSieve
cannot look at the name without compromising the safety--so the
address book filter just looks at the address.
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t;
to see if the messages are being classified as good because of the
sender address, or because of the content.
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t quit itself when it
notices that your mail program is no longer running:
<http://c-command.com/spamsieve/manual-ah/quit-when-mail-client-q>
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On Aug 15, 2006, at 8:01 PM, Sean McBride wrote:
> Have you ever considered adding support for Smart Crash Reports?
SpamSieve already has its own crash reporter, which unlike SCR works
back to 10.2 and doesn't modify Apple's crash reporter.
--
th Entourage,
GyazMail, or Mailsmith running in Rosetta. Nobody's sent me a crash
report related to this.
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;t think that will matter.
That option could matter if you have PowerMail set to sync with the
OS X address book.
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could also try creating a
blocklist rule that uses "Any Character Set" and match against
whatever charsets you're receiving.
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ining commands to Mail's Message menu; it does not
add toolbar buttons. If you have further questions, you can write me
off-list, as this doesn't pertain to PowerMail.
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On Nov 10, 2006, at 4:21 PM, K Lewis wrote:
It's performing very well for me, however, I just got
a warning that SpamSieve is a demo version. Do I have
to buy it again?
No, just enter your name and serial number into the Purchase window.
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ling SpamSieve that you think the deleted messages
are good:
<http://c-command.com/blog/2006/11/11/tell-spamsieve-the-truth/>
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it in general because there are legitimate reasons for non-spammers
who aren't in the address book to be sending GIFs.
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the log:
Trained: Spam (Manual)
Mistake: False Negative
But this time it was wrong, so with your help it corrected the
training and recognized that it had made a mistake.
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tences and randomly generated names
are
driving me crazy.
SpamSieve should be able to filter those. If it's not working for
you, please send me a report:
<http://c-command.com/spamsieve/manual-ah/what-information-should>
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;:
<http://c-command.com/spamsieve/manual-ah/exclude-my-addresses>
so that your name can be in the address book, but it will look at the
contents of the messages rather than assuming that they're good
because of the address.
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added to Apple Address Book, not PM's. I
don't see any 'Me' card in PM's address book.
The reason that you need a "Me" card is so that SpamSieve knows which
addresses are yours. If you choose "Go to My card" from the Card
menu, it will
those messages, in which case the messages were accepted because
of a criterion in one of your PowerMail filters, not because of
SpamSieve.
Now the question is, if I disengage "Use Address Book" option, what
would happen? I don't have much contents in Mac OSX Address Book
as t
ositives should be relatively low-scoring, i.e. 73
rather than 90-something, so you can look for them that way.
Secondly, if there are particular kinds of good messages that
SpamSieve isn't recognizing right away, then you should train it with
more of the
PowerMail.
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ication Support/PowerMail
should help.
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On Oct 27, 2007, at 11:28 AM, Geoff Roynon wrote:
Using PowerMail 5.5.3 (SpamSieve 2.4.4) on a G5 dual 1.8MHz, 3 GB RAM,
under MacOSX 10.5
Please update to SpamSieve 2.6.4, especially if you're running Leopard.
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On Nov 2, 2007, at 8:01 AM, Fabian Ramirez wrote:
SpamSieve is having issues as well (SLOW loading, non-responsive)
Please see the bottom of this page:
<http://c-command.com/blog/2007/10/25/leopard-compatibility/>
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assistant, and
nothing helped.
Did you try deleting the folder:
/Users//Library/Application Support/PowerMail
so that PowerMail will use fresh spam AppleScripts?
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a link to read the full spam.
You must be thinking of a different filter, since SpamSieve doesn't
run on the server and doesn't modify or generate e-mails.
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blems launching SpamSieve 2.7 on Mac
OS X 10.5 if the corpus is large. If this sounds like your situation,
please e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
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to be filtered.
That said, there may be a problem with your PowerMail setup. Please
see the troubleshooting steps here:
<http://c-command.com/spamsieve/manual-ah/why-is-spamsieve-not-ca>
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w so large by itself.
I first noticed the slowness after moving from Tiger to Leopard a few
weeks back - not sure if this is connected.
Yes, it runs faster on Tiger. Apple made some of the APIs much slower
in Leopard.
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hat Leopard is only slightly slower than Tiger on a
G4. If you have a GB of RAM, I'd definitely run Leopard.
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tics would be
inconsistent with the log.
Secondly, it says that you've only trained SpamSieve with 13 messages
(total, not just since yesterday). Or maybe you recently reset the
corpus?
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SpamSieve's
History.db file has got quite large (122.9 MB).
The size doesn't matter, but it sounds like the file is damaged. You
could either start a new one (hold Command-Option when launching
SpamSieve) or send me the file (e.g. on an iDisk or Dropbox) and I'll
repair it.
. the ones
you've trained it with). They don't show that it filtered any
messages. You'd need to look at the log to determine whether it did.
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o manually train it if there's a
mistake.
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probably unnecessary. Please see this page:
<http://c-command.com/spamsieve/manual-ah/why-is-spamsieve-not-ca>
In this case, my guess is that you need to delete the folder:
/Users//Library/Application Support/PowerMail
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er and run the "spam: evaluate'
script, its spam level stays at zero.
Please see this page:
<http://c-command.com/spamsieve/manual-ah/checking-the-powermail>
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l
end if
end try
end repeat
end tell
end rateCurrentMessages
my rateCurrentMessages()
and see if that helps.
--Michael
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rd what it is doing. And CTM might be able to suggest a
more PowerMail-specific way to log its communication with the mail server.
--Michael
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