[Spambayes] General comment re SpamBayes

[Tim Peters]

[Timberwolf Creek]
> I've used SpamBayes V 1.0.4 with Outlook for several years now, and it works
> flawlessly.  Thank you, thank you, thank you.  However, since upgrading my
> MS Office to 2007 (meaning I am using Outlook 2007) it drives me nuts that I
> am constantly being notified, via the task bar, that I have "new messages".

Then your complaint is about Outlook 2007, so needs to be addressed to
Microsoft.  Good luck ;-)

Really, there's nothing SpamBayes (or any other spam filter trying to
work with Outlook 2007) can do about this.


> I've tried to figure out how to get SpamBayes to just *delete* the stuff it
> identifies as spam, as it's been 100% accurate for so long that many times I
> just delete all the contents of the spam folder without bothering to check
> each message.  But alas, you've chosen, for whatever reason, to disallow
> such action.

Yes -- and an "auto delete" function wouldn't stop the behavior you
dislike anyway.  Outlook decides to notify you about new messages /as/
it's downloading new email from your ISP.  That happens before any
spam filter can look at the messages.  It's simply telling you "you
have new email" -- which is true, regardless of whether or not you
want the new email.


> So, I'm going to have to move on.  I'm just spending too much time reacting
> to the 'new messages' notification.

Then you'll have to move to a different email program, not a different
spam filter.  For example, you could get a Google GMail account.
Their spam filtering is pretty good, but in my experience has a much
higher "false positive" rate than SpamBayes (that is, GMail mistakenly
calls good messages "spam" more often than SpamBayes does).