![]() ![]() Whenever you check for new mail messages, the two-way communication between your email client and SpamSieve takes place automatically, seamlessly, swiftly, invisiblyand entirely through AppleScript. The email client receives the mail messages, and hands them over to SpamSieve for evaluation if SpamSieve marks a message as spam, it tells the email client application, which can then take appropriate action (such as moving the message into a Spam folder). So in order to filter out spam as your email client application receives it, that email client application and SpamSieve must cooperate. But SpamSieve is not itself an email client. This superb application uses Bayesian algorithms to distinguish between spam and nonspam email messages with astonishing accuracyfar better than those email client programs, such as Entourage and Apple Mail, that include spam filtering of their own. In which multiple applications are coordinated, often without the intervention or even the awareness of the user. Thanks to AppleScript, data can be moved back and forth between applications so that each can operate upon it in the appropriate manner. When it comes to assisting applications to combine their separate specialties, AppleScript really shines. "Swiss Army knife" programs that try to be all things to all users generally seem bloated with unnecessary features (such as Microsoft Word, with its Photoshop-like "graphics enhancement" features). That's how it should be, and that's how users typically like it, especially on Mac OS X where (in contrast to previous systems) there is no significant penalty to running several applications at the same time. For example, in a word processor, you wouldn't expect to perform extensive editing of pictures: a document might include pictures, but you'd create and edit them in some other program, and then incorporate them into the word processing document. Most users don't perform all tasks in a single application. Different applications are good at different things. ![]()
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