[Spambayes] Outlook add-in misfeature

[Mark Hammond]

I agree this is a bug, but really am lost as to what to do about it.  Early
versions worked probably as they had "temporary" toolbar items.

I guess a solution would be to make the SpamBayes toolbar invisible as we
exit, and visible as we initialize.  Then a machine without SpamBayes wont
make it visible.

A better option of course is to arrange for SpamBayes to follow you too -
install it to a directory that follows you, then on any machine execute
"regsvr32 outlook_addin.dll" to make it function the the first time on a
machine.  Add "regsvr32 -s \path\to\outlook_addin.dll" to your startup
group, and you can forget about it for all time <winnk>

Please open a bug though if you think it should be fixed (assign to me, and
add my suggestion for a fix)


Mark.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: spambayes-bounces at python.org
> [mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of Coe, Bob
> Sent: Saturday, 11 October 2003 3:15 AM
> To: spambayes at Python.org
> Subject: [Spambayes] Outlook add-in misfeature
> 
> 
> R. K. Coe
> 
>   _____  
> 
> Here's something I noticed the other day. Consider an Outlook 
> add-in user whose Windows profile has been configured for 
> Spambayes. Up through about version .06, if that user opened 
> Outlook on a computer on which Spambayes was installed, he'd 
> see the appropriate toolbar and menu items; but if he opened 
> Outlook on a non-Spambayes computer, he'd see no evidence of 
> Spambayes: no toolbar and no options. I think that's pretty 
> much how it should work.
> 
> But it turns out that in version .081, a Spambayes-enabled 
> user on a non-Spambayes computer does see the toolbar (which 
> is, of course, non-functional, since the Spambayes 
> executables aren't there). In other words, the presence of 
> the toolbar follows the user, regardless of the computer's 
> configuration. I think this is confusing and definitely not a 
> step in the right direction. Intuitively, I think I 
> understand the forces at work here: the developers tried 
> (with at least partial success) to come up with a less clumsy 
> installation procedure to deal with the tide of "I installed 
> Spambayes but it doesn't work" complaints. But in any complex 
> software package it's important to find the right partition 
> between user-specific and computer-specific functionality. In 
> this case, the toolbar should be visible only if it's active. 
> Which means, I think, only if both the user and the computer 
> are properly configured for Spambayes.
> 
> Bob <mailto:rcoe at CambridgeMA.GOV>  
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