[Spambayes] "biff" in outlook?

[Sean True]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: spambayes-bounces at python.org 
> [mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Alex Strasheim
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 10:20 PM
> To: spambayes at python.org
> Subject: [Spambayes] "biff" in outlook?
> 
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> 
> 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.
> 

If you can solve this problem, and tell Mark how, I will personally buy you
a case of the non-champagne carbonated beverage of your choice that is legal
in your state for your age. ;-) (Can you tell that I was trained by a lawyer
at some point?) 

This appears to be a hard one, even for those of us who work on Spambayes
related stuff for a living. Outlook doesn't appear to WANT you to set that
little icon.

A good substitute would be one's own systray icon which reflected reality,
as opposed to Outlooks odd notion of whether you have something you should
read.

SpamAtBay users ask for this all time and I just have to stutter and sound
stupid.

Of course, that may be hard to differentiate from my normal state.

-- Sean