Software update: SpamPal 1.623 beta

James Farmer, the developer of SpamPal, announces on his forum beta version 1.623 of SpamPal. As the name implies, SpamPal flags the junk that ends up in your POP3 and IMAP4 email accounts, and uses DNS blacklists and a Bayesian filter to do its job, among other things. In this release, two major bugs are squashed: one that caused the whitelist to be completely overwritten with the word ‘English’, and one that sometimes prevented SpamPal from accepting new connections. James therefore recommends that anyone using version 1.62 upgrade to 1.623. The other changes are as follows:

• Auto-whitelist entries will no longer be overwritten with the word “English” when you close the options window.
• was getting into an infinite loop if you tried to remove something from the auto-whitelist; fixed.
• Fixed bug that was causing SpamPal to close some sockets just after they were created – probable cause of the problems with SpamPal not working after you come out of hibernation, and sometimes not being able to connect after you start up, etc.
• Fixed bugs that could cause service and/or client to hang at certain times.
• Fixed bug that could cause SpamPal to crash during the clean-up at the end of a mail fetch.
• Now strips email addresses beginning or ending with @ from the auto-whitelist, and also won’t detect such addresses.
• Fixed bug that could cause a crash when opening options dialog if no plugins installed.
• Now runs as a GUI client rather than an application when the -serviceServer command-line option is used.
• Welcome dialog can now prompt the user to choose a folder from which to import an existing SpamPal configuration into the service.
• Welcome dialog now includes a “back” button.