AppleScript error on "Select Mailboxes to Filter"

[ASegar (Adrian Segar)]

Running Sonoma 14.7.1 with SpamSieve 3.1 on an M3 MacBook Pro.

Going through the directions in the Topic “Quick Start to Keep SpamSieve Working With Apple Mail When Updating to macOS 14 Sonoma” I encounter the following AppleScript error when I choose “Select Mailboxes to Filter”.

{It reads: An AppleScript error occurred.
Mail encountered error -1712
(errAETimeout - the AppleEvent timed out ):
ail
Mail got an error: AppleEvent timed out.
near:
}

Perhaps there is an old AppleScript I added long ago in a prior version of SpamSieve that needs to be removed?

I am going through these steps because the option “Train as Good” does not move good messages out of the Junk folder. It used to work when I had “Enable spam filtering using Mail plug-in” selected. Since I switched to “Enable spam filtering using Mail extension” as recommended, this menu option has stopped working.

[Michael_Tsai]

@ASegar

Perhaps there is an old AppleScript I added long ago in a prior version of SpamSieve that needs to be removed?

Maybe, but this error is probably from the Select Mailboxes to Filter sheet itself, which uses AppleScript to read the list of mailboxes in Mail. It seems that Mail is overloaded or hung and not responding to requests from SpamSieve. It may help to restart your Mac.

@ASegar

I am going through these steps because the option “Train as Good” does not move good messages out of the Junk folder. It used to work when I had “Enable spam filtering using Mail plug-in” selected.

The training menu commands work identically no matter which filtering mode (disable, extension, plug-in) is selected, so I think something else must have changed.

Or it could be the same problem as above. If Mail isn’t responding to AppleScript commands, it won’t be able to move the messages during training, either.

Does the Log window show that messages are being trained as good? Does it show errors related to training?