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\r\n\r\n\r\nIt’s not every Monday that Apple releases an OS update two hours after\r\nthe close of business (on the East Coast) that breaks your software.\r\nThe good news is that, although I didn’t expect 10.4.1 to be released\r\nthis soon, I was aware of the problem and was almost ready to release SpamSieve 2.3.1<\/a>, which includes<\/a> accuracy improvements and some other Tiger-related changes.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n \r\nThe issue with 10.4.1 is that various Mail plug-ins have been causing problems<\/a> with Apple Mail in 10.4. To the best of my knowledge, SpamSieve’s was not among these. (I’ve received no reports of crashes or other Mail problems with any release versions of Mac OS X and SpamSieve, except for a few crashes that were caused by an old PGP plug-in.) But Apple has no way of knowing that, and they understandably don’t want their mail program to crash or misbehave because of other people’s code. So 10.4.1 disables all Mail plug-ins<\/a>. And it does so in such a way that you can’t re-enable them by dragging them out of the Bundles (Disabled)<\/tt> folder or by running the plug-in’s installer. Obviously, the idea was to get the plug-in developers to issue updates.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n \r\nBut I don’t think Apple quite accomplished what it might have wanted\r\nto, on a technical level, because plug-ins are either all enabled or\r\nall disabled. If you install 10.4.1 first, and then update to SpamSieve\r\n2.3.1, SpamSieve will work and all the other plug-ins will remain\r\ndisabled. Perhaps you’ll re-install them one-by-one as the developers\r\nissue updates. But if you install SpamSieve 2.3.1 first, and then\r\nupdate to 10.4.1 (or if you install some other incompatible plug-in\r\nafter installing SpamSieve 2.3.1) all the plug-ins will be enabled, and\r\nyou’re essentially back to the 10.4 situation.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n \r\nThe non-technical aspects of this update also leave something to be\r\ndesired. Apple didn’t tell developers that it was going to make this\r\nchange; their first acknowledgment of it was today. I discovered that\r\n10.4.1 disabled SpamSieve while running a seed, and luckily it wasn’t\r\nhard to figure out how to get it working again. But I couldn’t be sure\r\nthat my solution was correct, because Apple has yet to officially tell\r\ndevelopers how to make their plug-ins “compatible” or to reply to my\r\ninquiry as to same.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n \r\nWhat I’m most surprised about is how many people told Software Update\r\nto go right ahead within an hour or two of 10.4.1’s release. I won’t be\r\nclicking that button on my development machine for a few days.\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s not every Monday that Apple releases an OS update two hours after the close of business (on the East Coast) that breaks your software. 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