[Spambayes] 1.0a4 hangs Outlook XP if Python 2.3 and McAfee?

[Mark Hammond]

> I've been using the 1.0a4 source from CVS for quite some time
> with Python
> 2.2.3, Outlook XP SP1, XP SP1.
>
> I switched to Python 2.3, which worked fine, and then I
> installed McAfee
> VShield. Bad move -- Outlook would hang when downloading
> mail. Uninstalling
> McAfee fixed the problem, but every time I rebooted McAfee
> would be back
> (yaaaargh! -- it's like spyware).
>
> I've reinstalled McAfee without the email part of the scanner, and
> backgraded to 2.2.3 for SpamBayes, and after retraining (my database
> vanished) everything's fine.

Thanks for that info.  Bug
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=770397&group_id=61
702&atid=498103 sounds similar - I added a link to your mail to it.

Mark.