[spambayes-bugs] [ spambayes-Bugs-881009 ] Exiting Outlook loses spam score

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Bugs item #881009, was opened at 2004-01-21 12:07
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Category: Outlook
Group: Outlook 008
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Michael Lytton (mlytton)
Assigned to: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Summary: Exiting Outlook loses spam score

Initial Comment:
I am using Outlook 2000.  I was trying to write an 
Outlook VBA subroutine to delete items in the Spam 
folder based on the spam score of the messages in the 
folder.  However, while debugging I discovered that the 
messages that SpamBayes had filtered and moved into 
the Spam folder did not have a spam score.  In VBA 
terms, this meant the "UserProperties collection" had no 
members.  However, if I exit outlook without 
moving/training with the affected messages, then when 
I come back the messages have a spam score of zero.  
In VBA terms, the "UserProperties collection" now has 
one item, a Percent field named Spam.  The value of this 
UserProperty is zero however.  If I run the "Spam 
clues..." option on this mail it is nonzero and normally 
spam-qualified (over the default 90% setting which I 
have retained).

Speculating, SpamBayes acts as if the spam score is 
volatile and managed completely by SpamBayes based 
on Outlook events, until Outlook exit when the score is 
saved?

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>Comment By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Date: 2004-01-21 13:37

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=14198

I'm afraid this is not a bug.  We intentionally do not set
the Spam score via "UserProperties".  We *do* touch the
UserProperties collection for a single message per folder
when we startup, as this allows the "Spam" score to show in
the Outlook UI.  This is probably what you saw.  However, as
each message is scored, we do not touch UserProperties, but
instead set everything directly via MAPI.

To be honest, I'm not sure how to get the spam value using
the Outlook object model.  It is easy via CDO - you just use
the Fields collection on the object.  I would be very
surprised if Outlook can't get at this field somehow.  Try
and find information on how to get at any "raw" MAPI field,
and you should be right.  If you get stuck, drop me an email.

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