10 posts tagged ‘SpamSieve’
The Developers Who Came in From the Cold
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Paul Kafasis: In 2020, the disaster foreshadowed literally one sentence ago struck. Beta versions of MacOS 11 broke ACE, our then-current audio capture technology, and the damage looked permanent. When we spoke briefly to Apple during WWDC 2020, our appeals for assistance were flatly rejected.[…]With this in mind, we engaged in further discussions with the […]
SpamSieve 3.1
SpamSieve 3.1 improves the accuracy of my Mac e-mail spam filter, amongst many other enhancements. Some interesting issues were: NSHelpManager seems to be broken under Sequoia in that sometimes you have to click a help link multiple times for it to open the right page—until then it just opens the main help book page (FB15763353). […]
GitHub Copilot for Xcode
Frederic Lardinois (MacRumors, Hacker News): Microsoft-owned GitHub is bringing Copilot to Apple’s Xcode environment for the first time. Now in public preview, this will allow developers who build apps in Apple’s IDE with the assistance of Copilot. For now, the focus here is on code completion, but Copilot Chat and its other features will likely […]
Postbox Discontinued
Adam Engst (Hacker News, MacRumors Forum): Sad news. The longstanding email client Postbox has been acquired and shut down by eM Client, described by the announcement as “a leading email platform for Windows and macOS that combines email, calendars, tasks, contacts, notes, and chat into a single, easy-to-use application.”[…]On the other side of the equation, […]
SpamSieve 3.0.3
SpamSieve 3.0.3 is another maintenance update. The main focus is working around various cases where Apple Mail doesn’t behave properly, resulting in hangs or messages not being filtered or trained. Some interesting bugs were: Some customers were seeing a crash when SpamSieve updated its Dock icon badging. It turns out that setting NSApplication.applicationIconImage will throw […]
Mac Menu Bar Icons and the Notch
Jesse Squires (Mastodon): On my 13” Intel MacBook Pro, the icons reached to about halfway across the screen. On the 14” M3 MacBook Pro, ironically a machine with a larger display, at least 3 icons get hidden. This “design” (or lack thereof) is so dumb. It is utterly ridiculous to me that this is still […]
NSFileManager’s File Copy Error Messages Lie
Jeff Johnson: The error says that the source file InstallHistory.plist doesn’t exist, but the file does exist! The true reason for the copy failure is that the destination directory /Users/Shared/nonexistent/ doesn’t exist. Sigh.I tested my command-line tool all the way back to macOS 10.13 High Sierra, and the behavior is the same! This is an […]
SpamSieve 3.0.2
SpamSieve 3.0.2 greatly improves the workaround for the macOS bug where sometimes Mail extensions don’t work at all. By reading Mail’s database directly, instead of using AppleScript, SpamSieve is able to work much faster, with no overhead in Mail itself. It’s also no longer limited by mailboxes that have so many messages that Mail would […]