> > Again, Spambayes makes no attempt to explicitly open or close > > PST files. It > > does everything via MAPI, so any such errors are likely to be there. > > I doubt that they "reside" in MAPI.
All pst manipulation happens inside MAPI. MAPI exposes all of the Outlook items as a big database. Spambayes never deals with pst files directly (indeed, spambayes doesn't even know they *are* in a PST file - they may well reside on an Exchange server). > > I'm afraid you will need to explain in more detail exactly > > what happened, > > and exactly what role you believe Spambayes played in that. > > The many of the PST files designated in SpamBayes for HAM and > SPAM were > not "open" in Outlook when Spambayes was told to update. If you look inside the spambayes configuration files, you will notice the PST files are not referenced. You never designate a PST file in spambayes. If you happen to select a folder that exists in a PST file, spambayes just remembers the numeric "ID" of the folder - MAPI is what works out that it does or does not live in a PST, and where that PST is located. > They were > correctly named and were placed in the same subdirectory as > the main and > a few other PST files which were also designated. However, > the list in > Spambayes was NOT fully present (ie, not "open"). You mean the list of PST files that Outlook opens? This is just Outlook and MAPI loading your configuration, and happens well before spambayes gets involved, and it would happen even if spambayes was not installed. > > > Spambayes never > > touches the PST files directly, only as a side-effect of using MAPI. > > Spambayes makes no attempts to "link" anything. > > Spambayes needs to verify that a designated file exists in safe > condition before proceeding. Failure to do that caused this problem > through some connected chain. See above - spambayes has no idea if any given folder comes from a .pst file or elsewhere - that is all up to Outlook and MAPI. > Understood. However, since it can and does break these links, a > provision to heal them seems due and necessary for safe operation. > > Thanks for your comments. I really need a solution, however. I'm sorry to hear you are having this trouble, but I'm still not sure what the symptoms are, or exactly what "links" are in the context of this problem. Can't you just tell Outlook to close the .pst files causing trouble, then reopen the ones you want? If you mean that all your "Rules" etc are now broken, for example, you may just find this is an unexpected "feature" of Outlook that kicks in if you reconfigure certain parts of Outlook and unrelated to spambayes. Regards, Mark. _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
