[Spambayes] No Filterable mail items are selected

[Daren Kinser]

Thanks for the response Tony. I apologize for the dupe post. My
situation as you know was very similar although my messages were
received without attachments. The other message, the way I understand
it, was unfilterable even after the attachments were removed. Also,
SPAMBAYES correctly placed the message into the "Junk Suspects" folder
because they were actually SPAM and not from a legitimate sender.
Unfortunately I deleted these messages yesterday morning but if I
receive anymore I will post to the tracker. This is a minor
inconvenience because otherwise SPAMBAYES has been doing a fantastic job
for me. I can't say enough good things about it. Again, sorry for the
dupe post, and thanks a bunch for the help on this, it's greatly
appreciated.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Meyer [mailto:tameyer at ihug.co.nz] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:42 PM
To: Daren Kinser; spambayes at python.org
Subject: RE: [Spambayes] No Filterable mail items are selected


> Has anyone seen this before?
[...]
> I received about 4 spam messages, all within about 30
> minutes that appear to be from different sources. When 
> I select any of these messages and then click 
> on "Delete As Spam" I get the following message.
> 
> No filterable mail items are selected.
> 
> I can then click OK to clear the message and the spam
> messages are still there. All other messages it works fine 
> with. 

SpamBayes tries to figure out which messages you have received, and
which you haven't (sent items, drafts, etc).  (You can filter ones you
have received, but not the others).  Unfortunately there's not a simple
way to do this, so it relies on a few rules that seem to be right almost
all the time.

There have been a few cases like this where SpamBayes is wrong, and a
message has actually been received.

There's an open tracker about this:

[ 854547 ] message won't filter
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=61702&atid=498103&func=detail&
aid=
854547>

You can upload a copy of those messages to that tracker, if you like,
and we can look at the properties of the message, but it seems unlikely
that this will be fixed in the near future.  Obviously, you can just
move those messages manually, and this should be very rare (if not, then
there's much more incentive for it to be quickly fixed).

=Tony Meyer

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