[spambayes-bugs] [ spambayes-Support Requests-813151 ] Have Outlook remove specific messages from server

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Support Requests item #813151, was opened at 2003-09-26 11:28
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Marty Rabens (martoon)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Have Outlook remove specific messages from server

Initial Comment:
Does anyone know of a way to get Outlook to remove 

specific messages from the server without deleting them 

from your mail folders?  I run the SpamBayes plugin at 

work, and I'd like to keep all my spam (in case I need to 

retrain SpamBayes or to experiment with other spam 

filters), but I'd like to remove all the spam from the 

server so I don't have to retrieve it over dialup at home.



My apologies that this isn't actually a support request 

for SpamBayes, but it does relate to the Outlook plugin 

(and I thought other users may have the same question).



Thanks,

    Marty



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>Comment By: Marty Rabens (martoon)
Date: 2003-10-01 15:33

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Thanks for the suggestions, guys.  Unfortunately, this doesn't 

seem to work for me.  I'm running Outlook 2002.  I created a 

new .pst file, created a spam folder in it, and told the 

SpamBayes plugin to put spam there.  I have the "Remove 

from server when deleted from 'Deleted Items'" option 

checked.  When I retrieve my mail, SpamBayes puts the spam 

in the folder in the other .pst file, but it still gets left on the 

server.  Maybe this was a bug in Outlook 2000 that's been 

fixed in Outlook 2002.



Oh well.  Guess I'll need to start deleting the spam.  I just 

wish Outlook had some kind of "remove the selected items 

from server" feature.



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Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2003-09-26 12:38

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Purely by accident, I stumbled into something that works 

great, at least in Outlook 2000:



On my POP3 accounts, I have the "Remove from server when 

deleted from 'Deleted Items'" Outlook option checked.  God 

only knows exactly what that option truly means, but it turns 

out it means something surprising:



I have separate .pst file into which I store my training ham 

and training spam.  The Outlook addin is configured to move 

Spam directly into the training spam folder in this other .pst 

file.



And that's all it takes!  The spam messages (and only the 

spam messages) are automatically removed from my POP3 

server.  I have no idea why this works; I guess Outlook sees 

that the messages have vanished from the .pst file containing 

ny Inbox, and erroneously concludes that I must have deleted 

them from the Deleted Items folder.



Whatever the reason, it works for me on Outlook 2K, for 3 

unrelated POP3 accounts, and across 3 different OL2K 

installations on 3 different computers.

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Comment By: Adam Walker (xenogeist)
Date: 2003-09-26 12:31

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In Outlook, go to file->Data File Management. Use that

dialog to create a pst file. Now create a new folder in the

pst file (should be attached as "Personal Folders" or

something). Set you spam folder to be the new folder.

That should do what you want but, I can't test it because I

don't use exchange currently.

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