powermail-discuss Digest #3122 - Wednesday, May 6, 2015
SpamSieve or spam download problem
by "Anna Silliman" <a...@handsonenglish.com>
Re: SpamSieve or spam download problem
by "Michael Tsai" <li...@mjtsai.com>
Re: SpamSieve or spam download problem
by "Anna Silliman" <a...@handsonenglish.com>
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Subject: SpamSieve or spam download problem
From: "Anna Silliman" <a...@handsonenglish.com>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 18:09:39 -0500
Greetings--
SpamSieve and PowerMail have been working beautifully for me, since around
2005 I think? Starting in mid-April I started getting apparent spam messages
with No Sender Name and No Subject, also no text that I can see, several of
these every day. PM/SS stall while downloading email that has even one of these
on the server. When I delete the blank messages manually from the ISP website,
though, then the rest of the email downloads via PM/SS just fine.
Do you think I should try re-setting the corpus? I am a little scared to do
this as I've never tinkered much with SS. I did clear the History which was
fine but didn't solve the problem.
My other solution would be to pay for spam filtering at the ISP end, which
I really don't want to do. I hate that thing, I struggled with it years ago. I
would much rather filter at my end.
Thanks for any advice!
--Anna
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Subject: Re: SpamSieve or spam download problem
From: "Michael Tsai" <li...@mjtsai.com>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 21:19:28 -0400
> SpamSieve and PowerMail have been working beautifully for me, since around
> 2005 I think? Starting in mid-April I started getting apparent spam messages
> with No Sender Name and No Subject, also no text that I can see, several of
> these every day. PM/SS stall while downloading email that has even one of
> these on the server. When I delete the blank messages manually from the ISP
> website, though, then the rest of the email downloads via PM/SS just fine.
>
> Do you think I should try re-setting the corpus? I am a little scared to
> do this as I've never tinkered much with SS. I did clear the History which
> was fine but didn't solve the problem.
Hi Anna,
I don't think this is related to SpamSieve because it doesn't have any
interaction with the mail server. It doesn't do anything until PowerMail has
completed the download and sent it a message to analyze. You can tell for sure
by turning off spam filtering in PowerMail and seeing if that helps.
Another thing you could do is take a sample of PowerMail:
<http://c-command.com/spamsieve/help/sending-in-a-sample-r>
during the stall to record what it is doing. And CTM might be able to suggest a
more PowerMail-specific way to log its communication with the mail server.
--Michael
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Michael Tsai
C-Command Software
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Subject: Re: SpamSieve or spam download problem
From: "Anna Silliman" <a...@handsonenglish.com>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 23:14:08 -0500
Thank you so much for these tips. I will poke around at it and report back
later...
--Anna
Recently, Michael Tsai wrote:
>> SpamSieve and PowerMail have been working beautifully for me, since
>around 2005 I think? Starting in mid-April I started getting apparent
>spam messages with No Sender Name and No Subject, also no text that I
>can see, several of these every day. PM/SS stall while downloading email
>that has even one of these on the server. When I delete the blank
>messages manually from the ISP website, though, then the rest of the
>email downloads via PM/SS just fine.
>>
>> Do you think I should try re-setting the corpus? I am a little
>scared to do this as I've never tinkered much with SS. I did clear the
>History which was fine but didn't solve the problem.
>
>Hi Anna,
>
>I don't think this is related to SpamSieve because it doesn't have any
>interaction with the mail server. It doesn't do anything until PowerMail
>has completed the download and sent it a message to analyze. You can
>tell for sure by turning off spam filtering in PowerMail and seeing if
>that helps.
>
>Another thing you could do is take a sample of PowerMail:
>
> <http://c-command.com/spamsieve/help/sending-in-a-sample-r>
>
>during the stall to record what it is doing. And CTM might be able to
>suggest a more PowerMail-specific way to log its communication with the
>mail server.
>
>--Michael
>
>--
>Michael Tsai
>C-Command Software
>
>
>
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