[Spambayes] Whitelisting with Outlook 2003

[Harold Vandeventer]

I'm not sure you're reducing the number of folders, just changing the
name from Inbox to maildrop.

You've gone from: Inbox, Verified, Junk suspects and Junk to Maildrop,
Verified, Junk suspects and Junk.

What's the difference in writing the rules to parse Inbox vs Maildrop?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Cedric Beust [mailto:cbeust at bea.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 7:37 PM
Cc: spambayes at python.org
Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Whitelisting with Outlook 2003

> From: Tony Meyer [mailto:tameyer at ihug.co.nz] 

> > (it looks like SpamBayes kicks in *after* the message has been
exposed 
> > to all the rules, at least with Outlook 2003 + Exchange).
> 
> This is the idea behind the (now default) "background 
> filtering" option.  It ensures that SpamBayes always follows 
> the rules.  With that option off, it's anyone's guess as to 
> who sees a message first.  This should be the case with any 
> version of Outlook, and with or without Exchange (in fact, 
> rules running on Exchange, which includes most, should run 
> before SpamBayes even without this option).
 
Good to hear.  And I agree, it's the best solution:  this way you allow
users to fully exploit the power of rules offered in Outlook, and it's
that much less that SpamBayes needs to implement.

Side question:  can SpamBayes be configured to move ham (not spam) into
a particular folder?

The idea would be to make the Inbox the "maildrop", where both SpamBayes
and the Rules pick email messages and then dispatch them to the right
folders.  This way you can drop the number of folders from four (Inbox,
Verified, Junk suspects and Junk) to three (you no longer need to use
Inbox).

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Cédric
http://beust.com/weblog



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