[Spambayes] Re: Outlook addin - initial impressions

[David Bolen]

"Moore, Paul" <Paul.Moore@atosorigin.com> writes:

> Looking again at the notes, I wonder - is the problem of the
> "filter" button not being enabled what is referred to as "Filtering
> an Exchange Server public store appears to not work."? I was planning
> on filtering my inbox, which is indeed on Exchange...

I think it's more a buglet when first setting up filters and not
specifying an action to perform.  If you leave the filter set to
Untouched (the default) and don't select folders this will happen just
due to how the code tries to build the string for displaying on the
main manager dialog.

A workaround is just to pick an action (Copy/Move) and target folders on
the filter - e.g., use the suggested setup of having Spam and
Possible Spam folders to move the mail into.  It's not having folders
selected that is bypassing the logic to enable the checkbox.

The other fix is to patch the code to set filter_status to something
useful to display, and also set ok_to_enable to True, so the checkbox
for filtering gets enabled.  In this case you'll get some later
complaints about the Untouched setting when it applies the filter but
all will work properly without moving/copying the message.

There were definitely problems doing ID lookups on an Exchange server
public store, but as of the changes in CVS from 11/2 or so it seems to
be working properly at least for me - I've been filtering my Exchange
server inbox since yesterday as well as using Exchange server folders
for both Spam and Possible Spam folders, with no burps yet.

-- David