[Spambayes] More questions about SB proxy and OE

[Tony Meyer]

> First I would like to apologize to the list for not
> reporting any core dumps, back traces, and mysterious 
> Python errors - everything is working 100%, both the
> Outlook plug-in and the POP3 proxy with Outlook Express.
> Sorry about that :-)

We forgive you :)

> Anyway, I have a followup question about the POP3 proxy:
> 1. Once the proxy identifies a mail message as ham, spam
> or unsure, the proxy can 'notate' it by adding the appropriate
> string to the To: or Subject: fields. 
> 2. However, since the 'notate to' button is a radio button,
> only one action is possible
> 3. Thus I don't see how I can tag spams (and have them moved
> by a rule) and also tag unsures (and have them moved by
> another rule), all at the same time.

You've identified a quite subtle bug.  If you haven't selected any notate
options, then you get checkboxes.  If you've selected more than one (via the
checkboxes), you still get checkboxes.  If you've selected exactly one
option (just "spam", for example), you get radio buttons.  This also means
that you can't *deselect* it, to turn the option off (and conveniently get
the checkboxes back).

I'll try and figure out a solution to this so it's fixed for the next
release.  In the meantime, the solution is to manually open the
configuration file (the config page says where it is at the top) and either
remove the notate_to and/or notate_subject lines in the [Headers] section
(and then go to the config page, where there will be the expected
checkboxes), or just manually add in the notate options you want, for
example:

    [Headers]
    notate_to:ham,spam,unsure

(Don't put any space between the comma and the next option).

=Tony Meyer

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