[spambayes-dev] FAQ addition request

[Tony Meyer]

> I currently have two suggestions for improvement in the 
> documentation area:
> 
> 	The first deals with the Outlook plugin FAQ.  The FAQ 
> makes a big deal about SpamBayes being able to work with both 
> POP3 and IMAP.  Now I used to be a Coder, still do some, but 
> I am now a Network Designer/Engineer, so I understand what 
> these do, at least at a high level.  But I've never stopped 
> to think about what (potentially convoluted) protocol M$ 
> Outlook used to communicate with an Exchange server.  I still 
> haven't cared enough to find out either.  But it is/was not 
> clear to me that SpamBayes would work with an Exchange 
> server.  Even with the terse "Yes" answer to that question.  
> Given the amount of time spent on POP3 and IMAP 
> possibilities, the FAQ should really treat this question 
> better, or have the Windows overview page answer this a bit 
> more authoritatively.

I don't understand what could be more authoritative that "yes".  "yes, it
does"?  "Yes, definitely"?  "Yes. Yes. Yes."? <0.5 wink>

[...]
> 	<explain how Outlook/Exchange communicate>  The 
> SpamBayes Outlook plug-in simply watches the Inbox, and 
> optionally others, for new mail and attempts to apply it's 
> rule set to those messages.  Thus it doesn't attempt to get 
> between Outlook and Exchange, so there is no problem working 
> with the above discussed delivery mechanism."

I don't believe that this make it any more authoritative, but I'll add this
explanation.  Thanks for the contribution.

> 	My second suggestion is that, either in the FAQ or a 
> new "anomaly" section, there needs to be an explanation of 
> why "Undeliverable" messages are considered to be 
> "unfilterable".

Please check FAQ 5.6 and see if that is a suitable explanation:

<http://spambayes.org/faq.html#i-get-an-error-message-no-filterable-messages
-are-selected>

=Tony.Meyer