[Spambayes] RE: Filtering with Outlook 2003

[Coe, Bob]

I've had the same problem, although I'm dubious about your explanation of the phenomenon. (Maybe I don't completely understand what you're doing.) I use Outlook 2000, which does not (AFAIK) have a "Cached Exchange Mode". My symptoms are pretty much the same as yours: the first scan quits early, leaving a number of unscanned messages, but a follow-up manually triggered scan finds them. I've always assumed that the fault was a peculiarly formatted message that somehow confused Spambayes. This is supported (more or less) by the fact that it seems to happen only when there are a relatively large number of messages to scan (making it more likely that the triggering conditions would occur). I'm using Windows XP SP1, but the same problem occurred, with about the same frequency, when I was still using Windows 2000 SP4.

I think, although I'm not prepared to swear it, that I've seen the problem even when Exchange is not involved, i.e. when downloading mail to my laptop from a POP3 proxy on my home computer.

Bob

MIS Department, City of Cambridge
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: spambayes-bounces at python.org
> [mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of Steve Crane
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 3:33 AM
> To: spambayes at python.org
> Subject: [Spambayes] Filtering with Outlook 2003
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have been using SpamBayes for quite a while now and have been very
> happy with it under Outlook XP.  I recently upgraded to Outlook 2003 and
> now have a small issue with SpamBayes, which I am using in favour of the
> built-in spam filter.
> 
> I find that when I first start Outlook in the morning SpamBayes does not
> automatically filter my inbox.  It sometimes filters a few new messages,
> sometimes none, but invariably leaves a large number of new messages
> unfiltered.  I think that this may have something to do with the Cached
> Exchange Mode that I am using, which will start up in an offline mode,
> before finding and connecting to the Exchange server and synchronising
> the online and offline copies of my mailbox.  I suspect that the
> filtering may be taking place before this synchronisation has completed.
> I tried setting the Processing Start Delay to 5 seconds (I had it at 0)
> but this did not seem to make any difference.  Once the synchronisation
> has completed I am able to manually trigger the filtering but would
> really like to make it automatic.  At morning start-up (when there might
> be several hundred new messages) is the only time the filtering fails.
> It works as expected for the rest of the day.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> --
> Steve Crane
> http://craniac.afraid.org