Mailmaven, Spam Sieve and SaneBox

SpamSieve
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I am trying to shift to Mailmaven after years of using Postbox. My issue is that when SaneBox moves emails out of the inbox, SpamSieve doesn’t detect them as spam. Right now, I am being flooded with spam.

I saw an AppleScript that solves this problem in Apple Mail, but I don’t think it works with Mailmaven.

Any solution to this situation?

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That script is no longer needed for Apple Mail because you can just use the Filter spam in other mailboxes feature.

I don’t know of a way to do this sort of filtering with MailMaven, and it doesn’t provide enough AppleScript access for us to write a script. I suggest sending the developers a feature request.

For now, one option would be to also run Apple Mail in the background so that it can filter these messages with SpamSieve:

  • Select Enable spam filtering using Mail extension in SpamSieve.
  • Uncheck Check inboxes for new messages not sent to Mail extension in SpamSieve.
  • Check (and configure) Filter spam in other mailboxes in SpamSieve.
  • Uncheck the Mail extension in Apple Mail.
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Thanks Michael

Just to confirm the last step, you are say to uncheck the SpamSieve extension in Apple Mail.

I so missed having SpamSieve in Postbox after version 5.

Frank

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Yes, uncheck SpamSieve in Mail’s settings:

Or, I guess it’s probably off by default if you had not specifically installed SpamSieve for Apple Mail.

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Michael - one last thing, it looks like this works only while Mail is running. If I close it down, I lose the processing of the other mailboxes. Am I missing something.

Frank

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Yes, Mail would need to be running, but you can close all the windows or hide the app if you don’t want it to disrupt whatever else you’re doing.