[Spambayes] Where to send suggestions for SpamBayes?

[Patrick Beckhelm]

Well, I'll submit the feature addition here, so that we can see what others
think of it...

I'm interested in seeing a feature added whereby SpamBayes will clear the
message indicator (the envelope in the system tray) when a few conditions
are met:

1. All of the mail received was classified as spam; and/or

2. All of the mail received was classified as *either* spam or suspected
spam.

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The reason I think this is probably a useful, and even necessary, addition
is that if mail is classified as spam, we won't be looking at it anyway, so
no need to retain the "new mail" notifier.  I think that the setting for #2
above is something that should be user configurable (check box, etc.) such
that you could decide whether that behaviour is something you want.  The
default, of course, should be as it is now, so that *any* new mail will
trigger the indicator, just to keep things vanilla for those who don't care.

Do note that this is different than the already existing option to mark
messages read.  For some reason, on all of my systems, even if the message
is marked as read the notifier in the tray still shows up for spam and
suspected spam.  Not fun, considering the ever growing volume of mail that
we're being bombarded with.

Thoughts?

patrick

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Meyer [mailto:tameyer at ihug.co.nz] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 5:36 PM
To: 'Patrick Beckhelm'; spambayes at python.org
Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Where to send suggestions for SpamBayes?


> I've been using SpamBayes for quite some time now, and
> have not yet seen the implementation of a feature that
> I think would make this tool a bit more user friendly.
> I don't want to submit those to the wrong place, so
> if there's a specific place to do so, and someone is
> feeling generous, I'd like to hear about it.

You can send suggestions here (spambayes at python.org), although there's a
moderate chance of them getting lost in list traffic.

Probably the best place is via the sourceforge tracker system (they are
called RFE's there):

<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=61702&atid=498106>
(or just <http://sf.net/projects/spambayes> and click on "RFE")

That way they stay there until they are dealt with, other people can add
comments to them, they have an ID and URL to refer to them, it's easy to
attach patches, and so on.

=Tony.Meyer

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