Mailman 3 January 2004 - spambayes-dev

How do I configure Eudora for use with SpamBayes?
by Francois Chenier Jan. 30, 2004

Jan. 30, 2004

Hi, Just in case of you are not aware of, Spambayes 0.7a works also fine with Eudora 6.0.x for Windows. Procedure explained in FAQ is accurate for this version but with Eudora 6.0.x your can also enable headers filtering if you add following line to SpamHeaders.txt in Plugins directory of Eudora folder (usually C:\Program Files\Eudora). "X-Spambayes-Spam-Probability:.*(0.[0-9]+).*" 0 0 100 kTextFloatMatch Naturally, Eudora' users must enable spam filtering in Eudora to use this functionality. To configure spam filtering in Eudora see Eudora User Guide. NOTE : This feature works only for users who have Eudora 6 in "Paid Mode" because in "Sponsored Mode" or "Light Mode" the SpamWatch feature is disabled and not available. F. Chenier Quebec City CANADA --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.566 / Virus Database: 357 - Release Date: 2004/01/22

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RE: SpamBayes proposal for OSCON?
by Tim Peters Jan. 30, 2004

Jan. 30, 2004

Kevin Altis reminded me that OSCON is coming up at the end of July, and that a SpamBayes presentation (45 minute session) in the Python track would likely be a welcome proposal. There's approximately no chance I can attend. Anyone else? http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2004/create/e_sess

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Suggested patch for sb_mboxtrain.py 1.0a7
by Shawn Dyer Jan. 29, 2004

Jan. 29, 2004

When I ran sb_mboxtrain.py on my Maildir inbox, the timestamp on all of the files was touched, which messed up the way Courier IMAP sorts by receive date. Here is a suggested patch for sb_mboxtrain.py to preserve the timestamps on the Maildir messages that it trains. It is a fairly trivial patch. I now use it locally and can confirm that it preserves the original modified time from the original email files when it adds the trained header. The same technique would probably be useful for MHDir messages, but I do not use that and so cannot test. *** spambayes-1.0a7/scripts/sb_mboxtrain.py Tue Nov 4 04:02:40 2003 --- ../spambayes-1.0a7/scripts/sb_mboxtrain.py Mon Jan 26 00:53:02 2004 *************** *** 92,97 **** --- 92,98 ---- import time import socket + import shutil pid = os.getpid() host = socket.gethostname() *************** *** 120,125 **** --- 121,127 ---- f = file(tfn, "wb") f.write(msg.as_string()) f.close() + shutil.copystat(cfn,tfn) # XXX: This will raise an exception on Windows. Do any Windows # people actually use Maildirs? os.rename(tfn, cfn)

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Web filtering
by Claire Ryan Jan. 28, 2004

Jan. 28, 2004

Hi, I was wondering if you could give me some informtation on making a bayesian filter for web pages to block undesired content. I noticed this topic was posted on the site but couldn't access the directory that the information was stored on. Anything you have on this topic would be greatly appreciated as I am currently researching it for a project I am doing. Thank You, Claire Ryan

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FW: [Spambayes] Installation problem
by Tony Meyer Jan. 28, 2004

Jan. 28, 2004

>From a message I received offlist - he didn't say exactly, but it does look like the new py2exe installer will get rid of the 0x00000000 problem :) =Tony Meyer -----Original Message----- From: Paul [mailto:paul@cometozion.org] Sent: Wednesday, 28 January 2004 8:51 p.m. To: 'Tony Meyer' Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Installation problem Thank you The Hammond version worked immediately and works well in HIS service All day Every day Paul Sherbow Inspired Faith Broadcasting Network http://inspiredfaith.org/radio Come to Zion Ministry http://cometozion.org C&M Webhosting http://christian-webhosting.net -----Original Message----- From: Tony Meyer [mailto:tameyer@ihug.co.nz] Sent: January 28, 2004 02:31 To: paul(a)cometozion.org; spambayes(a)python.org Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Installation problem > Everything goes fine until I get to spambayes_addin.dll > My computer will not register this file. What is the error message that you get? Is it something about not being able to register and an error 0x00000000? If so, then this is a known problem, but not one with a known solution (although I gather that various things have worked for various people - the sourceforge tracker has more details). If it is, you might want to try the experimental binary that's on Mark's website (search for "experimental spambayes hammond" and you should find it), since that's built using a different process, and (we hope) will eliminate this problem. If it is a different error message, then it'd help to know exactly what it was. =Tony Meyer --- Please always include the list (spambayes(a)python.org) in your replies (reply-all), and please don't send me personal mail about SpamBayes. This way, you get everyone's help, and avoid a lack of replies when I'm busy.

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RE: [spambayes-dev] Exposing experimental options
by Tony Meyer Jan. 28, 2004

Jan. 28, 2004

> I like the idea of automatically collecting the options > because I'm all for reduced maintenance. On the other hand, > how would we handle it if we had experimental options that > didn't apply to all contexts? For example, what if we were > experimenting with some new POP3 proxy options but the user > was running the IMAP filter? We could always then explicitly remove them, after doing the automatic add. For the moment, most of the experimental options tend to be global, anyway, like tokenizer changes. =Tony Meyer

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RE: [spambayes-dev] Exposing experimental options
by Tony Meyer Jan. 27, 2004

Jan. 27, 2004

> The config page currently shows the "Advanced Configuration" > button that gets you to these settings. What if we added > another button "Experimental Configuration" that would give > you a similar page to set the experimental options. Hmm. I quite like this option, since we could also have a blurb explaining that the options were experimental and what that meant at the top. Maybe even a request for people to report back what they experiences with them were. It shouldn't be all that much code, either (if we do go this way, I'm happy to write it up, since it's basically just the same as when I added the advanced page). > The options shown could be controlled by a map exp_map separate > from adv_map, and if the exp_map is empty then we wouldn't > show the "Experimental Configuration" button. We wouldn't even have to have another map if we were happy to just show all the experimental options (which I think is best). Just automatically include them all, which also means no need to maintain the list as experimental options come and go. (Well, in a simple form this would also include deprecated options, but I don't see any problem with including those as well). =Tony Meyer

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RE: [spambayes-dev] Exposing experimental options
by Tony Meyer Jan. 27, 2004

Jan. 27, 2004

> I think we should adopt some convention to distinguish > between experimental and deprecated options, since in my mind > they'd both start with 'x-'. That convention might be as > simple as requiring '(EXPERIMENTAL)' or '(DEPRECATED)' at the > start of the short description string. +1. (The ones we have do this already, anyway, IIRC). =Tony Meyer

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RE: [spambayes-dev] sb_server reads all config from current directory!?!
by Tony Meyer Jan. 27, 2004

Jan. 27, 2004

> On Linux, sb_server.py reads all configuration &c from the > current directory, rather than the home directory. Well, it's not just sb_server.py (or it shouldn't be, at least). All the scripts should be doing this consistently. It (should) try to find a config file in the BAYESCUSTOMIZE envar, or (failing that) called [cwd]/bayescustomize.ini or ~/.spambayesrc, and if that fails, it defaults to [cwd]/bayescustomize.ini. (Note that there was a recent change that meant that all paths are relative to this file, rather than to the cwd). On Windows, if the process fails to find a config file, then (if win32all is available) it defaults to a file in the user's "Application Data" directory, instead of [cwd]\bayescustomize.ini. Presumably, then, with linux it should default to "~/.spambayesrc". This is around line 1155 of Options.py. (I'm guessing this is right for OS X, as well). > Can someone suggest a reason that I shouldn't fix this > misfeature? +1 to making the change. =Tony Meyer

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sb_server reads all config from current directory!?!
by Anthony Baxter Jan. 27, 2004

Jan. 27, 2004

On Linux, sb_server.py reads all configuration &c from the current directory, rather than the home directory. This is completely insane and has caused me problems a couple of times now (the messages all end up in my unsure folder, as there is no training database). Can someone suggest a reason that I shouldn't fix this misfeature? I know of no other Unix program that behaves in this way. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <anthony(a)interlink.com.au> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

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