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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Folks,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>new user to spambayes here. I have outlook
express using the POP3/SMTP approach, without a SERVICE defined.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm having 1 problem and I have 1
question.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>Problem:</STRONG> EVery time I change
configuration parameters I have to REBOOT before the localhost:8880 port will
work (except for the configure page). "/Home" gives me page not found, and
immediately after I do the config, I get various database looking errors... see
below (from the /changeopts page)</FONT></DIV>
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<H3>500 Server error</H3><PRE>Traceback (most recent call last):
File "spambayes\Dibbler.pyc", line 476, in found_terminator
File "spambayes\UserInterface.pyc", line 884, in onChangeopts
File "spambayes\ProxyUI.pyc", line 782, in reReadOptions
File "sb_server.pyc", line 1007, in _recreateState
File "sb_server.pyc", line 1022, in prepare
File "sb_server.pyc", line 822, in prepare
File "sb_server.pyc", line 889, in createWorkers
File "spambayes\Stats.pyc", line 60, in __init__
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_statistics_start_date'</PRE><PRE> </PRE><PRE> </PRE><PRE><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>QUESTION:</STRONG> What is the purpose of "DISCARD" in the training button list? I under stand defer, spam, and ham. What is the intent</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face=Arial>behind "DISCARD"? (I guess I could try it... )</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </PRE><PRE><FONT face=Arial>I'm assuming, nevertheless, that the entire point of Spambayes in a proxy server approach as I use it with Outlook EXPRESS,</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face=Arial>is that the emails are annotated somehow (either in subject or by an additional fictitious email recipient of </FONT><A href="mailto:spam@spambayes.invalid"><FONT face=Arial>spam@spambayes.invalid</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial>) </FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face=Arial>and a rule is then defined in Outlook Express to handle such recipients (by moving the messages to a junk mail folder).</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </PRE><PRE><FONT face=Arial>Thanks!</FONT>
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