Software update: SpamPal 1.58

A new version of the anti-spam program of the same name can be found on the SpamPal website. The program checks the email and will mark spam as such. This marking can then be placed in your favorite e-mail program are used to create a filter that, for example, puts this e-mail in a separate folder or immediately throws it away. SpamPal can handle both POP3 and IMAP4 accounts and uses, among other things DNS blacklists and a Bayesian filter to do its job. The installation comes with RegExFilter 2.7 and UrlBody 0.04 plugins, more plugins can be found on this one page are found. The changelog of version 1.58 looks like this:

Changes in 1.58:

• Fixed issue that had suddenly started causing crashes, usually at the “Filtering message headers” stage – this may have been exacerbated by Windows XP Service Pack 2.
• The installer had somehow become broken, and wasn’t creating the shortcut in the Startup group correctly, which meant SpamPal wasn’t automatically running at startup – fixed.
• Hopefully fixed bug that caused plugins to claim that they needed a “later” version of SpamPal when it was already installed.
• IMAP4: No longer displays “Mailbox does not exist” error in pop-up dialog
• IMAP4: A bug in Microsoft Exchange’s implementation of IMAP4 causes messages to be corrupted after they’re rewritten by SpamPal if they use anything other than a tab as a line continuation character in the headers. SpamPal should now detect Microsoft Exchange and turn all line continuation characters into tabs if it’s rewriting a message, to get around this bug in some cases.
• Tweaked some of the default settings to hopefully improve performance for new installs.