[Spambayes] delegate access subtelty

[Robert Mezzone]

It should not work the way you describe, at least it doesn't in our
environment with Exchange 5.5 and Outlook XP and Outlook 2003. I did have a
similar problem after one of the admins who hosed her SpamBayes
installation. It would move the Spam from her bosses Inbox to her Spam
folder. Try this to fix it.

SpamBayes Manager, Filtering Tab, Click the Browse button next to "Filter
the following folders as messages arrive". Click Clear All, Select only your
Inbox.

Hth.  

-----Original Message-----
From: spambayes-bounces at python.org [mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org] On
Behalf Of David Bracewell
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 7:53 PM
To: spambayes at python.org
Subject: [Spambayes] delegate access subtelty


If you are given delegate access on someone's exchange account, so you have
the Exchange box listed in the Outlook pane, whenever a suspect email comes
into THAT box, it is moved into the "Junk Suspects" folder of YOUR maibox.
That is, Spambayes seems to act on all message stores in the Outlook folder
pane. 

As far as delegated mailboxes are concerned, this may be good behaviour if,
for instance, you are an exectuve secretary who wishes to winnow out the
email of your boss. 

If, however, you wish to send out on behalf of the delegated mailbox, but do
not wish to manipulate the delegated mailbox's Inbox it can be a bit
dangerous. In my case, I have an individual mailbox, but also have the
Support person's mailbox in my Outlook folder pane. I think what happens is
that Spambayes takes suspects from HIS box and puts them in my Junk Suspects
folder in my Exchange Mailbox. If, as is sometimes the case, the email is
not Spam, I need to restore it to his Mailboxes Inbox. This is a layer I
just don't need. Is there some way of limiting Spambayes to particular
message stores?

Your product is great, by the way. 


David Bracewell
Caelo Software.  

_______________________________________________
Spambayes at python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes
Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html