[Spambayes] IEE and Deleting

[Meyer, Tony]

> So I find myself uncomfortable with your suggestion that I 
> maintain a library of junk mail in order to train spambayes 
> if I should lose the spambayes database.

It's worth noting that database corruption in the Outlook plug-in is
pretty rare these days.  Spambayes should also learn fast, so it's not a
total disaster to have to train from scratch.

> So I guess one plea is for the Outlook add-in to have a 
> mechanism to redirect to another directory, which I can then 
> more readily share and backup.

This already exists, although you have to manually edit the
configuration file (i.e. it's not exposed via the GUI).  The
configuration guide (linked to from the 'about' page in the 'help'
submenu) has details (it's the "data_directory" option).

> My other and more speculative plea is to have a mechanism 
> that would work on just headers, so that when I am on the 
> road, and have only low bandwidth, Spambayes can do some of 
> the work of detecting the junk from the headers alone. It 
> need not have the same reliability as for normal use, and can 
> restrict itself to deleting just the very high probability stuff.

This is a quite common request (although more for non-Outlook users,
IIRC).  Feel free to open a feature request:
<http://sf.net/projects/spambayes>, and someone will probably look into
it at some point.  (Actually, I started doing something along these
lines a while back, but then ended up getting busy with some other work
and haven't ever gone back to it).

=Tony Meyer