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class=245385212-19012006>Since you're using Outlook Express, you must be using
the proxy server implementation of Spambayes. Your problem evidently stems from
the fact that the proxy server provides only a single thread between the POP3
server and the two users. Assuming that you don't mind if you and your wife
share a single Spambayes database, you can solve the problem by feeding the two
incoming mail streams into Spambyes (i.e., don't bother to differentiate your
mail from your wife's), then splitting the output of Spambayes using a second
proxy server. (I know it sounds kludgy, but it ought to work.) One proxy server
(there may be others) that will do that is VPOP3, an excellent and affordable
product of a software house in England. (Google will find you their Web site.)
With two proxy servers in series, you'll have to play some games with port
numbers, but VPOP3 is almost infinitely configurable, so that's not
hard to do.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Schoolbook" color=#800000 size=2><SPAN
class=245385212-19012006>I've never used the Spambayes proxy server, so I don't
know for a fact that you can easily make it get its input from two POP3
accounts. But if not, you can probably have your ISP throw all your mail (yours
and your wife's) into a single POP3 account. That won't inconvenience you,
because VPOP3 is going to split it up again anyway.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Schoolbook" color=#800000 size=2><SPAN
class=245385212-19012006>The point of all this is that you and your wife are no
longer competing for Spambayes's attention. It does its job in the background
without intervention from either user.</DIV>
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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
spambayes-bounces@python.org [mailto:spambayes-bounces@python.org] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>Kyle Forbes<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, January 14, 2006 12:16
AM<BR><B>To:</B> spambayes@python.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Spambayes] Multiple
XP Users Confuses sb_service<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm stumped by this problem. My wife and I
use Outlook express, and we each have our own account on our XP machine.
When we both use the sb_tray program, the last one to start it up on his/her
account apparently dictates where SpamBayes will retrieve its configuration
information. Seeing this, I decided that maybe the best thing to do was
to install the sb_service to provide a central mechanism for filtering spam on
our computer.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The service starts automatically, and that seems
to work fine. I can login to either of our accounts and retrieve
email. However, the sb_tray program seems confused. Whoever runs
the program first prevents the other one from running it. The first
person to run it gets an active tray program through which he/she can review
messages and configure the server. If I login to the second account, the
sb_tray program doesn't work -- it says SpamBayes isn't running. Even if
I shut down the first user's instance of the tray program, the second user can
never seem to get an active connection to the service. Is this a known
bug? How can two outlook express users review messages via the sb_tray
program?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kyle</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>