[spambayes-bugs] [ spambayes-Bugs-804075 ] All mail items non-filterable

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Bugs item #804075, was opened at 2003-09-11 01:38
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Category: Outlook
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Assigned to: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Summary: All mail items non-filterable

Initial Comment:
>From the list:
I started using SpamBayes last week with the .7x
version. I just upgraded to .81, but I'm still having a
problem I experienced with .7x.
Platform: Windows XP
Program: Outlook 2000

I started using the plugin on my wife's profile on the
machine and it worked great. I then tried to use it in
my profile, and the plugin does not work at all.

I try to train the SpamBayes and it fails to see any
messages. It finishes the training in a split second
and ends up saying it has 0 good message and 0 spam.
Trying to get the training to see a message, I selected
all my folder to train on, and managed to get 1 message
to appear as good. I put the folders back to their
proper settings, retrained and got the 0 good 0 spam
result again...

If I try and delete a message as Spam it always says,
"No filterable mail items are selected".

I don't know what to do. It still works great on my
wife's profile though...


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Comment By: Axel Foley (axelfoley)
Date: 2003-11-19 04:19

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Found the problem. :)

The OE export wizard apparently does its job of exporting but 
it "forgets" to export ALL the SMTP headers of each mail. If 
you analyze the imported messages in outlook you will see 
that every mail exported by OE doesn't have *ANY* SMTP 
header. This is also documented by MS but still unsolved, 
check here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?
scid=kb;en-us;175666. :D

Anyway I solved my problem; instead of exporting from OE to 
Outlook I simply inverted the process. I imported from OE's 
database using Outlook 2003 import wizard and everything 
was transferred correctly.

A suggestion to the developers: you should give a warning to 
the users when the plugin skips messages, so one knows 
what the problem could be, instead of guessing. ;)

Anyway I have finished training the plugin and it's doing a fine 
job (at least until now), great piece of software. ;)

Keep up the good job...



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Comment By: Richard Cook (awhig)
Date: 2003-11-14 19:59

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I'll confirm that my initial entry was dealing with mails that I 
just imported from Outlook Express. I moved to Outlook 2000 
to use Spambayes.

Thanks,
Rich


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Comment By: Axel Foley (axelfoley)
Date: 2003-11-14 16:11

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I can confirm that it is a problem with mails exported from 
outlook express to Outlook using Outlook Express export 
wizard. Affected mails appear formally correct, but I haven't 
analysed headers in details.

All the other emails are "filtered" correctly. Maybe some 
headers are missing in the faulty ones and SpamBayes parser 
skips them.

It's easy to reproduce this behaviour if you want to analyse 
and correct it.

Keep us updated.

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Comment By: Tobias Kothe (mr_useless)
Date: 2003-09-24 01:42

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Same problem here. I just moved my Mails from outlook 
express to Outlook. Now the training wont find any mails in 
the folders.
The "Delete as spam"  wont work either giving the "no 
filterable items selected" message.

But suprisingly  all new messages, those which i did not 
transfer from "outlook express", work fine. I can delete them 
as spam without any problem.

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Comment By: Richard Cook (awhig)
Date: 2003-09-11 07:07

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In response to a question from Mark: Yes, all my emails have 
the regular envelope icon next to them

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