With the Spambayes Outlook plug-in enabled, starting Outlook via COM and shutting down Outlook via COM leaves an outlook.exe process running on my machine. * If I start Outlook via the UI and exit via the UI, the outlook.exe process is gone after about 5 seconds. * If I disable the Spambayes Outlook plugin, and then start Outlook via COM and exit via COM, the outlook.exe process is gone after about 5 seconds. I have disabled all other Outlook plug-ins/add-ins. I have disabled my anti-virus email scanning. I have set my Outlook macro security level to low. None of these helps. The Spambayes log file, with log level 9 looks the same to me either way. I'd sure appreciate any pointers that would let me use both the Spambayes plug-in AND other apps that use OLE automation of Outlook. Outlook 2003 (11.8002.6568) SP2 Windows XP Pro SP2 Outlook configured with multiple POP3 accounts (no Exchange accounts) Spambayes Outlook Addin Binary Version 1.0.4 (March 2005) Here's sample COM code that should not leave an outlook.exe behind but does: ===================================== Set myolapp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application") Set mynamespace = myolapp.GetNameSpace("MAPI") Set myfolder = mynamespace.GetDefaultFolder(6) myfolder.Display Set myfolder = Nothing Set mynamespace = Nothing MsgBox "shutting down" Call myolapp.quit ' (removing this line does not change the behavior) Set myolapp = Nothing MsgBox "done" ================================== Here's the log: ========================================================= System verbosity set to 9 No old pickle file to migrate Dumping loaded configuration: [Experimental] timer_interval: 1000 timer_only_receive_folders: True timer_start_delay: 0 [Filter] enabled: True filter_now: False save_spam_info: True spam_action: Moved spam_folder_id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spam_mark_as_read: False spam_threshold: 90.0 timer_enabled: True timer_interval: 1.0 timer_only_receive_folders: True timer_start_delay: 2.0 unsure_action: Moved unsure_folder_id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unsure_mark_as_read: False unsure_threshold: 15.0 watch_folder_ids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watch_include_sub: False [Filter_Now] action_all: True folder_ids: [] include_sub: False only_unread: False only_unseen: False [General] data_directory: C:\Documents and Settings\kevin\Application Data\SpamBayes delete_as_spam_message_state: None field_score_name: Spam recover_from_spam_message_state: None verbose: 9 [Training] ham_folder_ids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ham_include_sub: False rebuild: True rescore: True spam_folder_ids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spam_include_sub: False train_manual_spam: True train_recovered_spam: True -- end of configuration -- Loaded bayes database from 'C:\Documents and Settings\kevin\Application Data\SpamBayes\default_bayes_database.db' Loaded message database from 'C:\Documents and Settings\kevin\Application Data\SpamBayes\default_message_database.db' Bayes database initialized with 0 spam and 0 good messages Loaded databases in 1.48427ms SpamBayes Outlook Addin Binary Version 1.0.4 (March 2005) starting (with engine SpamBayes Engine Version 0.3 (January 2004)) on Windows 5.1.2600 (Service Pack 2) using Python 2.3.5 (#62, Feb 8 2005, 16:23:02) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] Folder 'Personal Folders/Inbox' already has field 'Spam' SpamBayes: Watching (for filtering) in 'Personal Folders/Inbox' Folder 'Personal Folders/Inbox/bogus2' already has field 'Spam' SpamBayes: Watching (for incremental training) in 'Personal Folders/Inbox/bogus2' Folder 'Personal Folders/Junk Suspects' already has field 'Spam' Processing missed spam in folder 'Inbox' by starting a timer New message timer started - id=31043, delay=2000 OnBeforeFolderSwitch <win32com.client.COMEventClass instance at 0x36642088> OnViewSwitch <win32com.client.COMEventClass instance at 0x36642088> OnFolderSwitch <win32com.client.COMEventClass instance at 0x36642088> OnActivate <win32com.client.COMEventClass instance at 0x36642088> The timer with id=31043 fired The timer with id=31043 was stopped The new message timer found no new items, so is stopping OnClose <win32com.client.COMEventClass instance at 0x36642088> SpamBayes - Disconnecting from Outlook Bayes database is not dirty - not writing SpamBayes has processed zero messages Addin terminating: 2 COM client and 2 COM servers exist. =========================================================