[Spambayes] Outlook 2000 fails to recognize new mail

Tony Meyer tameyer at ihug.co.nz
Thu Feb 12 16:54:26 EST 2004


> My outlook is very inconsistent with recognizing new emails 
> and alerting me when they arrive. 80% of the time, Outlook 
> wouldn't play the sound nor display the mail icon when I 
> receive a new regular mail and from time to time it would 
> play the sound and display the mail icon when the email I 
> receive is filtered spam by your software. What is the solution?

SpamBayes doesn't effect the sound being played, or the mail icon at all, so
any odd behaviour is totally caused by Outlook (or some other program).  For
reasons that we don't, see FAQ 3.8:

<http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/faq.html#how-can-i-get-rid-of-the-envelope
-tray-icon-for-spam>

=Tony Meyer

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