[Spambayes] RE: Suggestion/Help offer

[Robert K. Coe]

I don't mean to be obnoxious about this (I've made this point at least twice before), but you DON'T NEED the filter timer if you're using Outlook in an Exchange environment. If both the origin and destination folders are in the Exchange mailbox, the applicable Outlook filtering rules will be applied on the server, BEFORE Spambayes (which works only on the client) ever gets to see the messages. Only if the origin folder and/or the destination folder is on the client do the Outlook rules (which then have to run on the client) interfere with Spambayes. If you've set up a whitelist rule in Outlook but messages are slipping through it and getting classified as spam, it's probably for that reason.

Just so I stay within my level of expertise, I should state that I've used only Exchange 2000. So I can't swear that Outlook filtering works the same way with earlier versions.

Bob

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dejonghe, Manuel [mailto:Manuel.Dejonghe at cycos.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 7:56 PM
> To: Craig Bateman; spambayes at python.org
> Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Suggestion/Help offer
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Craig Bateman [mailto:cbateman at lmltechnologies.com] 
> > Sent: Samstag, 18. Oktober 2003 00:07
> > To: spambayes at python.org
> > Subject: [Spambayes] Suggestion/Help offer
> > 
> > 
> > I'm using the spambayes plugin for outlook, and while I find 
> > it's a very good tool, it seems to lack the ability to "whitelist" & 
> > "blacklist" certain addresses, in particular, I'd like to whitelist
> > anything that comes in through my corporate exchange email to remain
> > in my inbox, regardless of what it is.
> 
> ...
> 
> > Is this a limitation of spambayes in general or just the plugin?
> 
> There is a very nifty workaround (especially with outlook) to do your job:
> 
> find the option "filter timer" in the advanced tab of your spambayes-manager
> (in the dropdown-menu from the spambayes toolbar). If you set up a delay of
> 2 seconds and an interval of one second, outlook is capabale to apply a
> mailbox rule on this item. This is how I'm doing for some talkative (but
> important) mailing lists. move them to another inbox-subfolder (they will
> be kept "unread" and a blue counter will notify you).
> ...