[Spambayes] Feature Request

[Jesse Pelton]

Outlook rules and Thunderbird filters allow you to move messages to a
folder based on sender.  (In my version of Outlook, "Move messages from
someone to a folder" is the first of several rule templates listed in
the wizard that comes up when I start to create a new rule.)  They can
do a great deal more besides.  Both also allow you to move messages from
any sender in an address book to a folder, which seems like a simple and
useful form of whitelisting.  (Thunderbird also allows you to send
messages from senders not in your address book to a folder, but I
couldn't find a way to do this with Outlook.)

Note that this information is based on quick experimentation with each
program.  Since SpamBayes does a great job of classifying my mail, I've
never taken the trouble to set up any rules or filters.

I can't speak for any other mail clients, but I imagine that you're
correct in believing that they must have similar capabilities to be
competitive.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: spambayes-bounces at python.org 
> [mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Skip Montanaro
> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 1:42 PM
> To: Katz, Amir
> Cc: spambayes at python.org
> Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Feature Request
> 
> 
>     Amir> W/o diving into this interesting flame (:-) I would 
> like to make
>     Amir> one point regarding your own setup - Myself, and I 
> assume most
>     Amir> other users of SB do NOT have access to the step in 
> mail food
>     Amir> chain where procmail and similar tools can be installed &
>     Amir> configured. We're stuck with the organizational 
> policy of using an
>     Amir> end-user mail client (like Outlook) so the only 
> weapon that we
>     Amir> have is a plug-in in Outlook (or the SB proxy for POP3).
> 
> I understand what you're saying, but could only speak from my 
> own experience
> with procmail.  I believe Outlook has a pretty full-featured filter
> capability that allows you to route mail to mailboxes based 
> on more-or-less
> arbitrary header field contents.  I think most of my special procmail
> recipes could be translated to Outlook filter rules without major
> aggravation.  I suspect any mail program that pretends to compete with
> Outlook (Eudora, Mozilla Mail, Apple's Mail.app, etc) has to support
> something similar.
> 
> Can someone out there tell me conclusively that Outlook or any Outlook
> wannabe (*) can't do something like "route all mail from 
> guido at python.org to
> my guido mailbox"?
> 
> Skip
> 
> (*) Outlook Express does not count as an Outlook wannabe.
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