Spam Sieve Rule disable on every restart in Apple Mail

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Starting about a week ago, whenever I open Apple Mail after a boot-up, I get a SpamSieve dialog box that the add-in rule is disabled. When I check rules, it is indeed disabled. It runs fine after I re-enable it.

I think this may have started after the last Apple Rapid Response Security Update, about 1 week or so ago.

My set-up is:
M1 MacBook Air
MacOS 13.4 (22F66)-current public release
Apple Mail 16.0 (3731.600.7)-also current public release

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Thanks,

Pat

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This is probably happening because Mail is taking a long time to load the SpamSieve plug-in, so the app thinks that it hasn’t loaded. Is Mail taking a long time to launch at login? If so, you could follow the Slow Launching instructions to speed it up.

3

Thanks Michael,

Mail loads pretty quickly (it seems the same as before the problem), but I went ahead and tried the slow-load fixes in the link anyway; first the manual fix and then the automatic fix. Unfortunately, neither solved the problem.

Any other thoughts?

Pat

4

Does the problem only occur when you boot your Mac or any time you launch Mail?

Also, could you check that SpamSieve has Full Disk Access?

5

Voila! Full Disk Access had become disabled. Re-enabling it fixed the problem.

It was occurring every time I would open Mail from a Quit or Forced Quit status, as well as on boot-up.

Interestingly, for several days after the Apple Emergency Response Update, all of my FDA enabled apps became disabled and for several days in a row required re-enabling each time I booted-up. I must have missed SpamSieve.

Many thanks!

Pat