On 9 Jul 2026, at 12:55, Robert Brenstein wrote:

> Check out the old threads for other suggestions. My main symptom was 
> beachballing when any action required spamsieve, that is new mails or when I 
> set an email as spam. Beachballing by new mails was easy to see since 
> spamsieve icons was getting red down arrow on the dock. An escape suggested 
> by someone was to switch to spamsieve rather than wait for timeout. Ah, 
> memory recall got triggered: my underlaying problem was some disk corruption 
> as it turned out. After I booted into safe mode and ran diskcheck, which 
> reported fixing something, the settings for full disk access started sticking 
> and the problem went away.
>
Thanks, but no joy. I ran first aid from recovery, it found a few warnings but 
no real problems. After reboot I turned full disk access off and on for both 
Mailmate and Spamsieve. No change. Still beachballs.

> On 9 Jul 2026, at 15:39, David R. Oran wrote:
>
>> On 9 Jul 2026, at 8:45, Robert Brenstein wrote:
>>
>>> There were exchanges on such issues on this mailing list not long ago. For 
>>> me, the solution was to give full disk access to both mailmate and 
>>> spamsieve. Some of these settings did not want to stick, but once they did, 
>>> the problem went away.
>>>
>> Thanks. Yeah I tried that back then to no effect. I just tried again 
>> (turning it off and bak on again) and Mailmate still behaves as before. it 
>> doesn’t beachball *every* time. but certainly 75% of the time or more.
>>
>>> Robert
>>>
>>> On 9 Jul 2026, at 14:25, David R. Oran wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don’t want to bother Benny with this, as I suspect I may be the only one 
>>>> having this problem and it likely isn’t due directly to anything in 
>>>> Mailmate itself. Perhaps somebody on the list might have clue. It’s been 
>>>> happening for a couple of months now, but I can’t seem to relate when it 
>>>> started to anything in particular.
>>>>
>>>> Here’s the problem.
>>>> - I have Spamsieve enabled on incoming mail in my set of InBoxes.
>>>> - Spamsieve is running.
>>>> - New mail shows up on the IMAP connection to my mail account. Mailmate 
>>>> beachballs for anywhere from 20 seconds to a minute or so. It seems stuck 
>>>> waiting on Spamsieve.
>>>> - If I click on Spamsieve explicitly, the spam check finishes immediately 
>>>> and Mailmate becomes responsive.
>>>>
>>>> Most of my Spam is caught first by Spamassasin on my mail server, so the 
>>>> majority is in the Junk folder already and doesn’t have a Spamsieve score. 
>>>> However.
>>>>
>>>> - If I go into the Junk folder, select one or more messages, and 
>>>> explicitly invoke Spamsieve to score them, the beachball happens just as 
>>>> with new incoming mail.
>>>>
>>>> Something is happening with inter-process communication here, but I can’t 
>>>> figure out what, or where to look in my Mac’s settings for clue.
>>>>
>>>> Possibly relevant: if for yucks I launch Apple mail which also has 
>>>> Spamsieve set up, and mail comes in, Apple mail doesn’t beachball 
>>>> communicating with Spamsieve.
>>>>
>>>> Clue bat?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> DaveO
>>>>
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