[spambayes-bugs] [ spambayes-Bugs-987440 ] SB plug-in affects Outlook's AutoArchive behavior

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Bugs item #987440, was opened at 2004-07-09 05:21
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Category: Outlook
Group: None
Status: Closed
Resolution: Wont Fix
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jeff Jansen (jsjansen)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: SB plug-in affects Outlook's AutoArchive behavior

Initial Comment:
When SB is installed it apparently changes the 
modification date of all existing messages in the Outlook 
database to the date-time it scans them for "learning." 
The mod date is the date Outlook uses to AutoArchive 
Outlook items. So this has the adverse effect of 
delaying the AutoArchiving of any email messages that 
were received before SB was installed. For example, I 
noticed that one of my Outlook folders contained many 
items older than 12 months, even though that folder 
was configured to AutoArchive items when they are 12 
months old. Even though the Received Date for an item 
was, say, 7/1/03 and that item should have been 
AutoArchived on 7/1/04 (12 months later), because I 
installed SB on 1/11/04 the mod date was changed to 
1/11/04 so now it won't get AutoArchived until 1/11/05. 
This means I have to open each of my several Outlook 
archive files and then go through every one of my 
Outlook folders and manually move items into its archive 
file. This is a royal pain, to say the least. If possible, I 
would like the SB plugin to be changed so that it does 
not change the mod date of Outlook items it scans 
during learning. Thanks.

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>Comment By: Tony Meyer (anadelonbrin)
Date: 2004-07-09 16:54

Message:
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Thanks Tim - I didn't realise that we exposed that option :)

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Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2004-07-09 16:24

Message:
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Note that there's a checkbox you can deselect if you want to 
stop saving spam scores, in the Advanced tab of the 
SpamBayes Manager:  click the Diagnostics... button there to 
get at it.

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Comment By: Tony Meyer (anadelonbrin)
Date: 2004-07-09 15:14

Message:
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This should only be happening during filtering/scoring, not
training (but you were probably scoring messages after
training, as this is typically something you want to do). 
This is because the spam score is saved to the message.  You
can turn this off if you really want to - you need to add

Filter
save_spam_info:False

To the {profilename}.ini or Outlook.ini file in your data
directory.

Note that this does have consequences - SpamBayes does want
to use this information at times, and will need to
regenerate it each time.  You also won't be able to display
the spam score in Outlook.  However, it would be simpler to
just not score the messages after training (i.e. untick that
box).  That way training will not change the messages -
filtering still will, but that shouldn't matter, right?

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