[Spambayes] Re: Interesting behaviour from the Outlook client

Moore, Paul Paul.Moore at atosorigin.com
Fri Dec 6 16:38:35 2002


From: David Bolen [mailto:db3l@fitlinxx.com]
> I'm also occasionally seeing messages fail to show a score in their
> Spam column.  It leads me to think that somehow the wrong message is
> being operated on at some point and/or the result stored in the wrong
> location.
[...]
> PS: In what is more surely an Outlook issue, has anyone else had
> messages put back to an unread status after they've already been read?
> It happens semi-frequently to me (and sometimes correlated with a
> failure to update the spam column in the display until I switch out of
> and back into the folder).  I'm assuming it's a race condition between
> my viewing the message clearing the unread bit and something that the
> addin is doing setting it back, but it's tricky to isolate a regular
> procedure for reproducing.

Yes, I see both of these behaviours. I also can't find a consistent
pattern, but I think you're right that it's a race condition or
synchronisation problem of some sort...

Paul



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