[Spambayes] sb_mboxtrain.py does not train on all messages?

[Tony Meyer]

> Now I only have to find a reliable way of detecting if sb_server is
> already running, start it if needed, and shut it down when done.

There are various ways to check this, e.g.:

  1. If you're sure that nothing else on the machine will try and use  
the same ports as SpamBayes, then you can check to see whether a  
connection is accepted (either to a proxy port or to the HTML UI port).

  2. You can grep through ps and check for a 'python  
sb_server.py' (or however you have it setup) process.

  3. You could add code to the open_platform_mutex function in  
sb_server to open some sort of lock for your platform (e.g. create a  
directory, and delete it on close) and use that to check whether  
sb_server is running.

=Tony.Meyer

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