Spamsieve using Mail extension with Sonoma 14.7 causing Mail to hang

[Michael_Tsai]

@BKDad

I’ll attempt to capture a sample from Activity Monitor. Generally, I’ve found that hard when the unfortunate events are pretty much random.

Why is that? Does Mail unfreeze before you can open Activity Monitor?

@BKDad

“SpamSieve will check for new unread messages every {box} seconds.” is a subheading beneath “Filter spam messages in other mailboxes.” Does that setting in the box only affect the checking when filtering spam in other mailboxes? Or, is it a general setting?

The setting for the number of seconds affects both Filter spam messages in other mailboxes and Check inboxes for new messages not sent to Mail extension.

@BKDad

Does turning off filtering spam in other mailboxes prevent SpamSieve from checking for new unread messages outside the usual Inboxes?

Yes.

@BKDad

Could that be the cause of the hanging?

It’s possible. You can see in the Settings window next to the Check Now button which mailbox SpamSieve is filtering at any given time. So that can tell you whether SpamSieve is doing something during the hang and which mailbox it might be related to.

@BKDad

Another guess I had was that SpamSieve is trying to check for mail often enough to cause something to hang due to the IMAP response. You alluded to that on the “If Apple Mail is Running Slowly” page.

Yes, there is a bug in Mail where sometimes it throws away message data that’s already been downloaded, and if SpamSieve later asks for that data it can get bogged down refetching it if it’s also doing other stuff.

@BKDad

That is why I tried unchecking the Filter spam messages in other mailboxes.

The page recommends instead that you increase the time interval.