SpamSieve is super slow under Leopard
SpamSieve does a great job at combatting my email spam but under Mac OS X 10.5 it is unbelievably slow. Regarding Leopard compatibility, the makers of SpamSieve provide this warning:
Leopard has different performance characteristics than previous versions of Mac OS X, with some operations taking approximately ten times longer than before. For some users, this can make SpamSieve slow to launch (many bounces in the Dock) and slow to respond thereafter. Most users will not notice a difference, however.
I’m one of those users that notice the difference. The program takes forever to start (1 minute) and when it filters my mail, everything in Microsoft Entourage grinds to a halt.
Over two months ago, the developers of SpamSieve were working with Apple to develop some improvements but so far there haven’t been any updates. Boy, am I glad I didn’t upgrade to Leopard when it first came out.
Stumble It!Posted in OS X Software at 4:42 PM
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This is the first OSX upgrade I haven’t immediately jumped into and boy am I glad I didn’t.
Is there any compelling reason to do it any time soon, Jay? Seems like a headache without much payoff.
Posted by: david on January 4, 2008 6:13 PM
There are some nice cosmetic and user interface features in Leopard but I can’t think of a single must have feature.
I resisted for a couple of months and if I were you, I’d wait until after Macworld in a couple of weeks. The rumour is that a major upgrade to Leopard will be released that hopefully fixes a lot of the problems people are having.
Sooner or later you’ll have to upgrade but the OS and all of your apps but it might be wise to wait a little longer and make sure it’s not in the middle of a deadline!
Posted by: Jay Kerr on January 4, 2008 10:09 PM
