[Spambayes] "biff" in outlook?

[Alex Strasheim]

I'm running the latest binary outlook plugin, and outlook 2000.

I really love spambayes, and I have it trained well enough to catch almost
all of my spam.  It's terrific.

I have a question about the "biff" that outlook uses.  I don't know what
it's really called -- I'm talking about the little envelope that shows up in
the system tray when you have new mail, the thing that does the same job
that xbiff does on a unix system.

When mail comes in, the biff shows new mail even if its spam.  Since 2/3 of
my mail (at least) is spam, this makes the biff more or less useless.

Am I doing something dumb?  Alternatively, is there something horribly
broken in outlook 2000 that makes it hard to get the biff work properly?

I'm a totally amateur programmer, and I don't know the outlook object model,
so I don't know if I could crack the problem or not.  But I was thinking
that it would be worthwhile to take a stab at it if it would be a reasonable
thing to attempt to fix.