[Spambayes] Where to send suggestions for SpamBayes?

[Tony Meyer]

> 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.
> 
> 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 ho don't care.

This is a very common request.  For example, see FAQ 3.8:

<http://spambayes.org/faq.html#how-can-i-get-rid-of-the-envelope-tray-icon-f
or-spam>

And the RFE:

[ 774978 ] Hide envelope icon when only spam received
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=774978&group_id=61
702&atid=498106>

To steal Kenny's words from there:

"The problem is that SpamBayes only knows about a small
subset of the Outlook mail folders.  A user can configure
Outlook rules to move messages to other folders that
SpamBayes doesn't know about, so it is difficult for
SpamBayes to be certain when there are *no* other unread
messages anywhere in Outlook."

However, the upcoming 1.1 release will include some additional notification
support.  At the moment there is a "Notifications" tab in the Manager
dialog, from where you can set sounds for SpamBayes to play when
ham/unsure/spam is received.  (These can be used instead of / in addition to
the Outlook notification sounds).  It's feasible that this will be expanded
in time so that a tray icon can be controlled as well as sounds.  (Either
the Outlook tray icon, or one of our own).

=Tony.Meyer

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