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Clutter Threshold and Probability Outlook form

Clutter is one of the new features in Exchange Online in Office365, while there is some really good info on how to use clutter the detailed info on how it works behind the scenes is a little harder to come by. There was a really good blog post recently http://blogs.technet.com/b/inside_microsoft_research/archive/2015/04/09/probabilistic-programming-goes-large-scale-from-reducing-email-clutter-to-any-machine-learning-task.aspx from one the Microsoft Research team that gives some good information on how it actually works using Infer.NET and Probabilistic Programming.

With new features in Exchange come new MAPI properties and clutter in no different so we have these two new properties that get set on items



Back in 2004 when SCL (SPAM confidence level) was introduced in Exchange 2003 Paul Bowden gave us this CFG trick to expose the SCL value in Outlook http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2004/05/26/142607.aspx . All these years later the same trick can be used to expose these Clutter properties in Outlook so when you do get a message in Outlook that you think should have been clutter you can see how close it was to being classified. eg in action


The details on the CFG file is we define 2 properties to show


[Properties]
Property01=ClutterProbability
Property02=ClutterThreshold

These properties are PT_Double so the Mapi property type is x0005 which is why the type=5, and both properties are Named Properties

[Property.ClutterProbability]
Type=5
NmidPropSet = {23239608-685D-4732-9C55-4C95CB4E8E33}
NmidString = ClutterProbability
DisplayName = Clutter Probability
[Property.ClutterThreshold]
Type=5
NmidPropSet = {23239608-685D-4732-9C55-4C95CB4E8E33}
NmidString = ClutterThreshold
DisplayName = Clutter Threshold

To use this CFG file you need to copy it into the same directory where the

IPML.ico
IPMS.ico

files are located on Outlook 2013 that will be in

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\office15\FORMS\1033

(or Program Files (x86) if you using the 32 bit version)

On 2010 it will be Microsoft Office 14

If you can't find the files just do a search of the hard disk for them (Sorry I don't have the rights to redistribute them).

Once you have the form in that directory you go through the same install procedure as http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2004/05/26/142607.aspx just replace SCL with Clutter Extension Form. SlipStick.com has also created a video on doing a CFG install https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfW6JknE_IQ which is quite good.

I've put a download of the file here the full file looks like

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[Description]
MessageClass=IPM.Note
CLSID={00020D31-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
DisplayName=Clutter Extension Form
Category=Standard
Subcategory=Form
Comment=This form is used to expose the Clutter settings
LargeIcon=IPML.ico
SmallIcon=IPMS.ico
Version=1.0
VersionMajor=1
VersionMinor=0
Locale=enu
Hidden=1
Owner=Clutter
ComposeInFolder=1

[Platforms]
Platform2=NTx86
Platform9=Win95

[Platform.NTx86]
CPU=ix86
OSVersion=WinNT3.5

[Platform.Win95]
CPU=ix86
OSVersion=Win95

[Properties]
Property01=ClutterProbability
Property02=ClutterThreshold

[Property.ClutterProbability]
Type=5
NmidPropSet = {23239608-685D-4732-9C55-4C95CB4E8E33}
NmidString = ClutterProbability
DisplayName = Clutter Probability

[Property.ClutterThreshold]
Type=5
NmidPropSet = {23239608-685D-4732-9C55-4C95CB4E8E33}
NmidString = ClutterThreshold
DisplayName = Clutter Threshold

[Verbs]
Verb1=1

[Verb.1]
DisplayName=&Open
Code=0
Flags=0
Attribs=2

[Extensions]
Extensions1=1

[Extension.1]
Type=30
NmidPropset={00020D0C-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
NmidInteger=1
Value=1000000000000000
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