[spambayes-bugs] [ spambayes-Feature Requests-788755 ] Easy-empty Spam, Potential Spam folders

Wed May 19 15:57:41 EDT 2004

Feature Requests item #788755, was opened at 2003-08-14 11:15
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Category: Outlook
Group: Next Release (example)
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Brian Dipert (bdipert)
Assigned to: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Summary: Easy-empty Spam, Potential Spam folders

Initial Comment:
I have my spam (Outlook 2K, Windows XP Pro, by the 
way) going into a folder titled 'Spam' and potential spam 
going into 'Potential Spam' (original, eh?). Any way your 
plugin could add 'Empty XXX Folder' to the menu list 
which pops up when I right-click on these two folders, 
as occurs now with the Deleted Items folder? That 
would save me the added steps of selecting all the 
messages in Spam, moving them to Deleted Items and 
then emptying THAT folder. I've got Spam set to 7-day 
message retention, and after that time deletion, but I 
try to keep my Outlook tidier than that when I have 
time.......

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>Comment By: Kenny Pitt (kpitt)
Date: 2004-05-19 15:57

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We're in a feature freeze right now until we get the final 1.0 
release out. Once we begin work on new features for 1.1, we 
will consider including this.

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Comment By: govnah (krowell)
Date: 2004-05-19 15:15

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I want to officially request that the "delete spam" feature be 
added to the official release. I would really like that feature 
as well...

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Comment By: Brian Dipert (bdipert)
Date: 2003-12-18 18:21

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Thanks, but I'm actually set (and I have NO clue why my last 
reply showed up four separate times!!!). After posting the last 
reply, I browsed through the message log and found the 
Visual Basic script that someone else posted earlier this year. 
It works great; I've also turned off the preview pane in 
Potential Spam and Spam folders (didn't realize before now 
that this was per-folder selectable, not a global setting).

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Comment By: Kenny Pitt (kpitt)
Date: 2003-12-18 17:19

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First you'll need to be running the plugin from source instead 
of the binary.  If you're not already running from source then 
the steps involved are:

* uninstall binary plug-in
* install Python 2.3.2+ (http://www.python.org/2.3.2/)
* install the win32all Python extensions 
(http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/win32/Downloads
.html)
* get a copy of the source from CVS or download it from here 
(http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/spambayes/spambayes-
1.0a7.zip?download) and extract it
* register the source version of the plugin by 
running "addin.py --register" in the Outlook2000 subdirectory 
of the source

Once you have the plugin up and running from source, get a 
copy of Larry Wall's patch utility 
(http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/patch.htm) and 
download the latest copy of the patch file from the 
referenced patch number.  Put the empty_spam.patch file in 
the Outlook2000 subdirectory and run the following command:

    patch -i empty_spam.patch

Hopefully this will apply the patch to the correct locations in 
your version of the source.  Then restart Outlook and you 
should have it.  Note that the Empty Spam Folder command is 
on the SpamBayes menu, not the right-click menu.

If you do undertake this and get it running, please let me 
know how it works for you and if it solves your problem.

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Comment By: Brian Dipert (bdipert)
Date: 2003-12-18 17:00

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Kenny,
How do I roll your patch into my existing v0.81? I'd 
desperately love to be able to do this, as simply previewing 
some of these spam messages (which happens automatically 
when I select them to move them to Deleted Messages) 
indicates to the server that's sent the junk that my email 
address is alive (via GIF image load, etc).

Regards,
Brian

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Comment By: Brian Dipert (bdipert)
Date: 2003-12-18 16:59

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Kenny,
How do I roll your patch into my existing v0.81? I'd 
desperately love to be able to do this, as simply previewing 
some of these spam messages (which happens automatically 
when I select them to move them to Deleted Messages) 
indicates to the server that's sent the junk that my email 
address is alive (via GIF image load, etc).

Regards,
Brian

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Comment By: Brian Dipert (bdipert)
Date: 2003-12-18 16:53

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Kenny,
How do I roll your patch into my existing v0.81? I'd 
desperately love to be able to do this, as simply previewing 
some of these spam messages (which happens automatically 
when I select them to move them to Deleted Messages) 
indicates to the server that's sent the junk that my email 
address is alive (via GIF image load, etc).

Regards,
Brian

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Comment By: Brian Dipert (bdipert)
Date: 2003-12-18 16:51

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Kenny,
How do I roll your patch into my existing v0.81? I'd 
desperately love to be able to do this, as simply previewing 
some of these spam messages (which happens automatically 
when I select them to move them to Deleted Messages) 
indicates to the server that's sent the junk that my email 
address is alive (via GIF image load, etc).

Regards,
Brian

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Comment By: Kenny Pitt (kpitt)
Date: 2003-11-20 09:32

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This actually isn't that difficult to do, and I've already 
submitted a patch (#831941) to do it for the Spam folder.  No 
decision yet on whether or not it will be included in a future 
release.

It probably isn't a good idea to do this for the Potential Spam 
folder.  These messages are, by definition, ones that 
SpamBayes is unsure about and need to be looked at 
individually by the user.  If you are getting a lot of messages 
in Potential Spam that you don't care to review, you might 
want to consider lowering your spam threshold so that more 
of these messages go directly into the Spam folder.

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Comment By: Erik Sargent (esargent)
Date: 2003-11-20 04:46

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I don't know if you can add the menu item, but Outlook 2003 
does provide a SPAM folder with this feature. (not for 
potential spam though)

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