[spambayes-bugs] [ spambayes-Bugs-853697 ] Devastating critical bug, destroys .pst file

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Bugs item #853697, was opened at 2003-12-04 12:47
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Category: Outlook
Group: Outlook 008
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jed Fisher (jedbytegeist)
Assigned to: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Summary: Devastating critical bug, destroys .pst file

Initial Comment:
Hi there
I'm using Outlook 2002 with Win2000, all the latest 
service packs, etc installed. I have a 990MB .pst 
Outlook file.
I installed Spambayes and followed the instructions 
only to find after i clicked "finish" on the Wizard 
Spambayes began to move all my messages into the 
suspect folder. THIS IS REALLY BAD! (and non obvious 
that it was going to do this). It is really bad because a 
990MB outlook file takes a long time to move all the 
messages, and secondly Outlook is very unstable and 
crashed midway though the process! This corrupted my 
Outlook file rendering it useless, luckily the Inbox 
Repair Tool *seemed* to fix it.

After my mail was working again, i tried Spambayes 
again, luckily because it was now installed it did not try 
to move the remaining messages although because of 
the crash Spambayes did not know which folder the 
messages came from (ARGGG).

Anyway things seemed to be working now for new 
messages until i ran Training on Spambayes, where i 
selected the bulk of my message folders as "good", 
again after training for 30 minutes it crashed Outlook 
and again corrupted the .pst file...

Basically the bugs are:
a) do not automatically move the messages from the 
inbox/selected folders (warn the user incase they have 
990MB .pst file!)
b) dont let training crash, perhaps limit the size of the 
training, or make sure when you look at messages it's 
read only.
c) remember which folder the files came from (even 
after a crash)

And finally one feature request:
1) assume that messages from people in my address 
book are not spam


Thank you for destroying my day and almost my life. My 
Inbox is important to me, BE CAREFUL WITH IT!

Jed

PS i have no log file that was generated

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>Comment By: Tony Meyer (anadelonbrin)
Date: 2003-12-04 13:03

Message:
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I'm sorry that you had such trouble, but:

1.  SpamBayes is *alpha* software, with everything that 
goes with that.

Bugs (a): Did you read the options that you selected?  I'm 
pretty sure that you selected the one that said you want to 
train as you go, which clearly says that it will begin by moving 
all your mail to an unsure folder so that you can sort it out.  
This doesn't have to happen, it's just the option that you 
chose (and also the default).

Bugs (b): we do everything we can to avoid crashes, fairly 
obviously.  If you believe that SpamBayes is crashing Outlook, 
then opening a bug report about that would be the correct 
behaviour, with *lots* of details (Outlook version, OS version, 
etc).

Bugs (c): The plug-in tries to save the original location of 
messages as much as it can.  It's certainly not designed to 
work with crashes, and a crash generally means that you're 
out of luck, with any program.  The next version (IIRC) has 
some improvement to the location-saving code, so that might 
help.

Feature request: please see the FAQ re: whitelisting.

Overall, I regret that you had this trouble, but melodrama 
doesn't really help solve anything.

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