Download SpamPal 1.62 beta

A stable version of SpamPal was recently released, but the development is of course not standing still. James Farmer has just released a new beta version and it has been given jersey number 1.62. full of pride announces he states on his forum that this is the first version that can now also be run as a service under Windows. However, there are more changes and the full changelog looks like this:

SpamPal 1.62 beta changes:

• Can now run as a Windows Service! click here for more details!
• User Interface:
  • Added keyboard shortcuts to all menus (English translation only).
  • Added ellipsis (…) to buttons that open new dialogs.
  • Now opens status window if you try to start SpamPal when it’s already running.
  • Tray icon now re-created when you try to run a second instance of SpamPal client/application
  • Plugin windows (eg Bayesian reclassify window) can now be accessed from the status window’s “Tools” menu as well as the tray icon menu.
• POP3:
  • New options in “advanced” POP3 port properties dialog allow you to disable padding of headers and/or the “this message has grown too big due to a bug in a plugin” message (which is now disabled by default).
• Networking:
  • Now always reports servername resolving errors, even for error 0.
  • If unable to connect to server, now keeps retrying for 3 seconds (as it does if unable to resolve) – should help problems with certain firewalls detecting spampal.exe has changed and SpamPal giving up before the user has a chance to OK the changed file .
• Installer:
  • Installer creates “Startup” shortcut in All-Users startup folder (instead of current user’s startup folder) if installing user has admin rights and this is a first install.
• Registry Keys:
  • SpamPal’s configuration folder can now be set using the following registry keys (listed in descending order of priority):
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareSpamPal for WindowsSpamPalConfigDirPath
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareSpamPal for WindowsSpamPalConfigDirPath
  • Last configuration folder used by SpamPal now stored in registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareSpamPal for WindowsSpamPalLastConfigDirPath (This value isn’t read by SpamPal, but may be useful if third-party tools need to get at the SpamPal configuration data)
• Command Line Arguments:
  • -allow_multiple_instances command-line parameter works as before. However, -suppress_multiple_instances_warning has been deprecated (but if used, prevents the status window from opening).
  • New command-line option -open_options_window automatically opens the SpamPal options window on start-up
• General changes:
  • Crash messages now include a stack trace (thanks c2j2!)
• Plugin API:
  • There’s a new, different function for checking your plugin will work on the current version of SpamPal – required if you want this check to happen when SpamPal is running as a service!
  • Implements several new functions you can use to optimize your plugin’s user-interface when SpamPal is running as a service.
  • New “direct” versions of filterOnMessageBody, rewriteMessageBody, rewriteMessageHeaders and processedMessage plugin functions should be slightly more efficient than the regular versions.