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Mail Shepherd 3.0 (build 454) · Updated October 21, 2026

Changes since build 414, newest first.

Build 454

  • The sidebar always opens at its full width, including the first time Mail Shepherd opens (it could open too narrow).
  • Help → Try Mail Shepherd with Sample Mail reopens Mail Shepherd with made-up mail, lists and results, to try every page without touching Mail. A bar above each page says it’s sample mail, with Quit Sample Mail, which reopens it as usual. It keeps its own settings, so it never changes yours. Sweep and Delete Selected work on the sample mail: a Sweep shows fresh results, and deleted (or, in the App Store edition, flagged) messages leave the list, with Action Log entries.
  • Version 3.0 (no more “beta”). The App Store edition is 2.0, with the same build numbers.
  • Review Blocked and Review Junk no longer make macOS ask for Mail access as soon as they open. Until Mail Shepherd may control Mail, their controls are off and a warning icon explains why, with Ask for Permission (or Open Settings, once refused) and Open Setup.
  • The Contacts permission prompt is one short sentence: “Mail Shepherd uses your contacts so their mail is never treated as junk or blocked.”
  • Review actions find a message in Junk or Trash by reading each account’s mailbox’s IDs in one request and taking the message at that position, instead of searching Trash, which could take 15 seconds or more per message in a large Trash (flagging two messages and selecting them took about two minutes).
  • Delete’s confirmation (Delete Selected and Delete Permanently) has Don’t show this message again. Holding Shift, Control, Option or Command as you click Delete shows it anyway.
  • Blocked Senders has Clear Mail Shepherd’s List (asks first), for testing: it empties Mail Shepherd’s own Blocked Senders without touching Mail’s list.
  • A message Mail reports as deleted (waiting to be erased) is logged once as “Skipped: already deleted”, not again by every Auto-Sweep while it stays that way.
  • Automate: while Setup needs attention, the Auto-Sweep menu is off, with a warning icon that explains and opens Setup.

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