[MlMt] Use of Spamsieve for Spam Blocking

[Randall Meadows]

On 13 Jan 2025, at 8:57, Mike Conley wrote:

>> Also, I am using Mailmate and Spamsieve on two Macs and read mail on both of them and have Spamsieve operating on both of them.
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> You probably shouldn't be doing that.

Ditto.

> The proper way to use SpamSieve on multiple Macs is outlined in SpamSieve's user guide in section 3.14, here:-
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> 	<https://c-command.com/spamsieve/manual#id446>
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> Option 1 and 2 are the best, and I strongly recommend 2, the drone setup, in which one Mac runs SpamSieve and MailMate all the time, and the others run only MailMate, and you have special mailboxes and rules set up for training the spam filter. See the above link and the link at
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> 	<https://c-command.com/spamsieve/manual#setting-up-a-spam-filte>
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> for detailed instructions.

What he said.

> I do this on my systems and it works flawlessly.

I also run a Mail.app + SpamSieve drone, on a  Mac mini on my network, and it works "flawlessly" until it doesn't.  By which I mean I start getting an increase of spam on my daily laptop, so I go look at my mini and see that both Mail and SpamSieve are no longer running.  They are set to launch upon reboot/restart of the machine, so apparently one (or both) are simply crashing.  Besides being a Time Machine host, that's about all this mini does; anyone else seeing similar behavior?