I know this isn't your responsibility, but it's driving me nuts. I can't get Microsoft's self-help system to cough up a cause or a solution.. I hope you can help because it could cause me to stop using SpamX.
It seems that a relatively recent Outlook 2002 security update causes Outllook to seek permission each time SpamX tries to generate a report and again (!) before sending it. When you combine this with some SpamX behavior it leads to sputtering, impotent rage.
The details:
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What Outlook Does:
I. Open Outlook 2002
II. Open SpamX (1.2.6).
III. Start processing. Outlook Dialogue pops up.
A. "A program is trying to access email addresses in Outlook." Contains: Check box to allow, drop down list to specify 1-10 minutes, Yes-No-Cancel buttons.
B. SpamX begins to process the message.
C. When finished, another popup shows progress bar while messages are generated.
i. Meanwhile the yes button is greyed out until all messages have been generated.
IV. Start over for the next message.
Now add SpamX behavior:
I. In batch mode, messages are deleted as soon as the complaint messages have been sent for each Spam message.
A. This means that if I see inappropriate complaint recipients, I must select No when Oulook asks if I want to send the message.
i. The Spam is deleted and I can't process it manually, so the message goes unreported.
B. Or there is a mixture of appropriate and inappropriate recipients.
i. Then the appropriate recipients don't get a report either.
ii. Or I send the report and someone like IANA gets a spam report they shouldn't get.
II. Despite great recent improvements, SpamXii still gets a fairly high proportion of wrong complaint recipients.
A. Today for example, I had more than 70 spams to process.
i. At least one-in-five had IANA as the only recipient.
ii. Several others had IANA addresses followed by some others.
B. None of those in the first category was reported and several of those in the second were also unreported.
C. There is another type of problem.
i. I've noticed that spams that generate a large number of recipients tend to have a lot of undeliverable addresses.
ii. I've accumulated quite a list of these and for most, I have looked up the correct abuse address using Spam.net.
iii. SpamX has no simple way of incorporating these into the Do not send list.
iv. It would be even better if SpamX had its own conversion table so that when a known undeliverable address was generated, it could be translated to the correct one(s). I would be happy to send you my list, if you think you could use it.
I. Open Outlook 2002
II. Open SpamX (1.2.6).
III. Start processing. Outlook Dialogue pops up.
A. "A program is trying to access email addresses in Outlook." Contains: Check box to allow, drop down list to specify 1-10 minutes, Yes-No-Cancel buttons.
B. SpamX begins to process the message.
C. When finished, another popup shows progress bar while messages are generated.
i. Meanwhile the yes button is greyed out until all messages have been generated.
IV. Start over for the next message.
Now add SpamX behavior:
I. In batch mode, messages are deleted as soon as the complaint messages have been sent for each Spam message.
A. This means that if I see inappropriate complaint recipients, I must select No when Oulook asks if I want to send the message.
i. The Spam is deleted and I can't process it manually, so the message goes unreported.
B. Or there is a mixture of appropriate and inappropriate recipients.
i. Then the appropriate recipients don't get a report either.
ii. Or I send the report and someone like IANA gets a spam report they shouldn't get.
II. Despite great recent improvements, SpamXii still gets a fairly high proportion of wrong complaint recipients.
A. Today for example, I had more than 70 spams to process.
i. At least one-in-five had IANA as the only recipient.
ii. Several others had IANA addresses followed by some others.
B. None of those in the first category was reported and several of those in the second were also unreported.
C. There is another type of problem.
i. I've noticed that spams that generate a large number of recipients tend to have a lot of undeliverable addresses.
ii. I've accumulated quite a list of these and for most, I have looked up the correct abuse address using Spam.net.
iii. SpamX has no simple way of incorporating these into the Do not send list.
iv. It would be even better if SpamX had its own conversion table so that when a known undeliverable address was generated, it could be translated to the correct one(s). I would be happy to send you my list, if you think you could use it.
I'm sorry for dumping this all at once, but all this has all be