[spambayes-bugs] Suggestion for Outlok version of Spambayes

[Tim Peters]

> I would recommend that you have Spambayes able to be set up as a
> “Rules” This would allow much more flexability with processing
> messages. I could have certain rules running before spambayes, and
> then have spambayes process the messages, and then have more rules if
> I would like to.

That would be nice.  Unfortunately, it doesn't look possible -- the Outlook
Rules system is a "closed box" that doesn't allow adding external programs
of this kind in a useful way.  Worse, you can't write an Outlook rule that
looks at the value of a user-defined field either, so you can't write an
Outlook rule that looks at the value of the Spam Score field we add.  I'm
afraid we already did the best we can do here, and that to do better,
Microsoft would have to change Outlook.

BTW, note that spambayes-bugs at python.org isn't a good place to suggest
features.  Normally only a program sends email to this address (a program at
SourceForge sends email to this address whenever an item in the spambayes
bug database is changed).  General discussion should go to
spambayes at python.org.

Glad you like the program, anyway!