I’ll paste the full list of SpamSieve related errors from the log below. Any ideas? Any way to track down why it fails to get the message source sometimes? On the 2nd invocation of the rules, SpamSieve is successful in processing the very same message. So clearly the rules are being invoked, but for some reason SpamSieve is not able to get the source of the message the first time around. Subject: Can this 10 Second Trick Help Prevent YOUR Heart Attack? And the following appeared in SpamSieve’s log: (again, only after the 2nd application of the rules) At that point, the SpamSieve rules marked it as spam and moved it to Junk. Then, I did an Apply All Rules to that message. Looking in the error logs, I see this message:Ģ/11/15 13:21:44.169 rick: Outlook SpamSieve Outlook could not get the source of message: Can this 10 Second Trick Help Prevent YOUR Heart Attack?Īnd there was nothing matching this message in SpamSieve’s log. It was not moved to Junk by SpamSieve’s rules, but the Not in Contacts category was applied by the last rule. There was a message still in my inbox subject: “Can this 10 Second Trick Help Prevent YOUR Heart Attack?”. Here’s an example from the logs: Time now about 14:48 local, 19:48 UTC. Is there a log file that we can capture when this occurs to get a better idea what’s going on? I could record the screen on morning startup if that helps. So it appears that the first SpamSieve rule is somehow skipping some messages on the first pass, even though it marks them when the rule is re-applied. However, if after all this, I select these messages and Apply All Rules, SpamSieve then marks and moves the messages to the Junk folder. This tells me that the rules were processed and got down the the final rule, but somehow SpamSieve didn’t mark the message. I will see some others get marked “Not in Contacts” but not moved even though they look like junk. As I watch them get processed (Outlook in the foreground), I can see some being marked and moved to the Junk folder. I’ve removed all rules in the local rule set except the three SpamSieve rules plus one more, after those three, that marks messages with a category “Not in Contacts” if the sender is not in Outlook’s contacts.Īs and example of what happens when I first fire up Outlook in the morning… I receive a large number of messages. For $30 it’s a bargain.It’s been a few months and I’ve been watching this to try to narrow it down. Overall, I like SpamSieve and will buy it when the trial expires. It also seems to have some form of blocker, because my spam has “dwindled” to about 300 a day. It is uncannily good at catching crap, and once you train it on the ones that manage to sneak by, it catches them faultlessly in the future. If you have some spam emails in your Inbox or JunkMail, you point SpamSieve to it and it uses them to train itself. Once installed, SpamSieve is very easy to train and it REMEMBERS. That was a mistake: It’s much easier than they make it sound. The first time I looked at SpamSieve a few months ago, I gave up just reading the initial setup directions. The problem is that there are so many email programs out there, that the instructions appear vast and intimidating until you realize that you must first pick which email “client” you are using (Apple Mail, Outlook, etc.). SpamSieve actually requires you to READ instructions, follow them, and set a few parameters. SpamSieve is easy to install if you are a reasonably competent computer user. I would rate it a 5 on the 10-point difficulty scale compared to most Apple software, which usually installs almost seamlessly around 2-3 on the scale. With both Apple Mail and Outlook, the number of false positives, i.e., good emails that go to the JunkMail folder, is very high, requiring constant monitoring of the JunkMail box a somewhat self-defeating exercise time-wise. The resident filter in Apple Mail is completely incompetent (as was the one in Outlook previously) it learns very poorly and continues to deliver the same crap from the same addresses into my Inbox. I’ve been suffering a literal spam invasion, getting somewhere around 2000 a day from my four email accounts. I installed a fully functional trial version of SpamSieve on the recommendation of my friend Leisureguy a couple of weeks ago.
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