[Spambayes] Desktopnotification and JunkMail

Michael Kimball michael at kimballpottery.com
Tue Aug 10 16:02:25 CEST 2004



Tony Meyer wrote:
> 
> > Okay, if I get this right, the faq tells me, there is no
> > "official" solution to this problem, right?
> 
> Yes, and no solution that will do the right thing.  I've long since stopped
> using the envelope icon, but from memory it disappears the first time that
> you mark as read new mail, and appears the next time there is new mail.  To
> work properly, we would need to have it disappear if all new mail was spam,
> but we don't have any way of knowing if *all* new mail is spam or not (we
> don't necessarily know about all new mail).
> 
> > But maybe the code posted on this site
> >
> <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=774978&group_id=61
> 702&atid=498106>
> > might help me? Unfortunately I'm not familiar with Visual

Possibly this suggestion is just what the VB code is supposed to do. 
But maybe not.

Would another proxy that sits between SpamBayes and Outlook work? All
that proxy would do is check the X-Spambayes-Classification: headers,
and as soon as it encounters a 'ham' or 'unsure', it quits.  If it
doesn't find one of those (ALL email was classified as 'spam'), then it
suppresses that new mail icon.  I don't know how to write a proxy, so I
don't know if this is feasable.

Just read what I wrote above.  If you can write such a proxy, then
rather than have it act as described, have it delete and not pass on any
spam.  If no spam gets passed on, then Outlook wouldn't see anything and
wouldn't have any reason to throw up that icon.

Lots more rambling , but gotta go now so you are saved from that!!!!

>From the linked thread above, it appears you can't use filter rules in
Outlook to do this.  Either you simply can't write such a rule, or the
icon is displayed (or queued) BEFORE the filters run.


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