[Spambayes] RE: Problem with other mailboxes using Outlook

[Coe, Bob]

My suggestion to Mark would be to clear his unsure folder, collect and read Desirée's mail, then recover the unsures back to Desirée's inbox. (If he wanted to be finicky about it, he could do the same thing with the definite folder.) Then when Desirée gets back, she can scan her inbox for spam before reading her mail.

The problem with Tony's suggestion is that it applies Mark's spam criteria to Desirée's mail, which may result in some messages getting junked that Desirée would have preferred to see. That may be OK in this particular case, but might not be OK in general.

Bob

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: spambayes-bounces at python.org
> [mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of Tony Meyer
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 12:59 AM
> To: 'Werner, Uwe'; spambayes at python.org
> Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Problem with other mailboxes using Outlook
> 
> 
> > Example: I log in as "MarkO" but open/link to "DesireeC" as a second
> > mailbox because this colleague is on holiday and I have to check her
> > mail as well. SpamBayes empties the second mailbox as well and drops
> > everything in MY Junk Suspects folder.
> 
> Do you mean everything, or do you mean everything that scores unsure?  If
> the former, then there's definitely a problem here ...
> 
> If the latter, then that's simply the way things work - there's no facility
> within the plug-in for delivering mail to different unsure folders depending
> on where it came from (it would make it unnecessarily complex).  I suppose
> you could use the POP3 proxy (sb_server) to do this, although that would
> mean sacrificing the ease-of-use of the plug-in.  Depending on how often you
> need to run the filter, you could also temporarily set the unsure folder to
> a different one, then do a "Filter Now", then set it back.  (That would
> work, but isn't convenient).
> 
> =Tony Meyer