What does the menu bar icon represent?

What does the menu bar icon represent? When I look at it, all I can see is a little guy (Stewey?) with a long square tongue sticking out of his mouth.

It’s a sieve with an envelope coming out the bottom. In other words, the blue part of the application icon from a different angle.

It’s probably easier to see at a larger size:

This probably makes more sense if you remember the original SpamSieve icon:

I can see that. Too bad the icon has to be monochrome.