Mailman 3 December 2003 - SpamBayes

RE: [Spambayes] Having a problem with Spambayes
by Tony Meyer Dec. 31, 2003

Dec. 31, 2003

> Am having problem with Spambayes.........for > some reason the e-mails are not being automatically > sent to my Spam folder....I have set a rating of 80% > or greater to go to this folder. In addition when I > click on the "delete as spam" button it does not send > the e-mail to the spam folder. It puts up an error > message "Invalid Configuration....You must configure > the spam folder" > > What am I doing wrong??? You have to configure the spam folder :) (To do this, go into the SpamBayes Manager dialog, click the "Filtering" tab, and use the two Browse buttons to select the folders to use for Spam and Unsure messages.) =Tony Meyer

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RE: [Spambayes] imap4 filter
by Tony Meyer Dec. 31, 2003

Dec. 31, 2003

> > I dont think any have "<" or ">" characters. > > They do have "-" though. > > Hmm. With so many, no doubt this is the problem. Not the "-", that is. But there is probably a "<", ">" or "&" there somewhere. Anyway, I don't know what I was thinking. My fix was wrong :) This is the right one: 1. After line 44 ("import re") add the line "import cgi" 2. Somewhere around line 268 is the line " for folder in available_folders:". After this line add the line " folder = cgi.escape(folder)". =Tony Meyer

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Having a problem with Spambayes
by RICHARD BATES Dec. 30, 2003

Dec. 30, 2003

Am having problem with Spambayes.........for some reason the e-mails are not being automatically sent to my Spam folder....I have set a rating of 80% or greater to go to this folder. In addition when i click on the "delete as spam" button it does not send the e-mail to the spam folder. It puts up an error message "Invalid Configuration....You must configure the spam folder" What am I doing wrong???

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RE: [Spambayes] Exceptionally well-done identity-theft spam
by Tony Meyer Dec. 30, 2003

Dec. 30, 2003

[Tony] > It's the "www.paypal.comekjhaskjqpwopwo@" that it doesn't like. > Either urllib2 doesn't like passing a username with http, or > you're supposed to extract it from the url and pass it some other > way; I don't know enough about urllib2 to know which is correct. [Skip] > Nor do I. urllib.urlopen likes it just fine though. Why is it that there is both urllib and urllib2? I've always tended to use urllib2 because it seemed to have better proxy support, but should I use (in the experimental url 'slurping', for example) urllib instead? (Since it does this better, for example). I suppose I really should be asking this on c.l.p, but someone here must know ;) =Tony Meyer

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RE: [Spambayes] Retrieve a deleted/noted SPAM email
by Tony Meyer Dec. 30, 2003

Dec. 30, 2003

> I DID THIS AND WOULD LIKE TO GET A DELETED SPAM BACK. CAN YOU HELP. Did you delete the message, or 'note' (train) it as spam? Are you using the Outlook plugin, or something else? If you're using the Outlook plugin, and you just trained it as spam (by clicking the "delete as spam" button, perhaps), then it has just been moved to your spam folder. Go into it, select the message, and click "Recover from spam". If you're not using the Outlook plug-in, then it's rather more complicated with the 1.0a7 release. Let us know if that's the case and we can provide answers. =Tony Meyer

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Retrieve a deleted/noted SPAM email
by JOGOLLER＠aol.com Dec. 30, 2003

Dec. 30, 2003

I DID THIS AND WOULD LIKE TO GET A DELETED SPAM BACK. CAN YOU HELP. JOGOLLER(a)AOL.COM

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RE: [Spambayes] I would like to display the field that is used for thescoring. I am using Outlook 2002
by Tony Meyer Dec. 30, 2003

Dec. 30, 2003

> I saw one of the FAQs had something about showing SPAM > and mentioned it was a userdefined. But when I when to > look for it, I saw USER DEFINED, but did not see the SPAM > (ther were no userdefine fields) Was it a folder that you are 'watching' for new messages, or the spam folder? The field only gets added to those ones (and the 'unsure' folder, in the next release). Have you gone through the steps in the 'about' documentation? > Also, is it possible to have spambayes score, but not move? Yes. Either as a one-off, with "Filter Messages" - chose "Score messages, but do not perform filter action", or permanently - go to the Manager dialog, to the Filtering tab, and choose "Untouched" from the drop-down menu. =Tony Meyer

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RE: [Spambayes] Outlook plugin
by Tony Meyer Dec. 30, 2003

Dec. 30, 2003

> When configuring it, it does not "see" my Sent items folder > in Personal Folders, though it can see the corresponding folder > in Archive. Can you explain this? There is a rough consensus that it's not appropriate to train on mail you have sent yourself (because you don't filter mail that you receive yourself, and so you would end up generating invalid clues). This is deliberate. If you move the messages into some other archive folder, then SpamBayes can't figure out that's what you've done, so will let you use that folder. However, any messages that SpamBayes 'thinks' haven't been received by you (i.e. all sent mail) will not be filterable. > I have set the program up to filter Inbox, and move detected > items to Certain and Possible, having trained it on Inbox (ham) > and Certain (spam). Is this the best way of doing it? Yes. =Tony Meyer

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RE: [Spambayes] Outlook: failure to enable Spambayes
by Tony Meyer Dec. 30, 2003

Dec. 30, 2003

> I have looked at the documentation, but this does not cover > this present situation: > Spambayes Mgr says the program is enabled Are you sure? The log has this: """ *** SpamBayes is NOT enabled, so will not filter incoming mail. *** """ Is this definitely the most recent log? (I had the feeling that the most recent one always ended with '1', but I could be wrong). =Tony Meyer

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Spambayes Software and SPAM folder
by Lily Cornely Dec. 30, 2003

Dec. 30, 2003

Someone here told me that you need to not delete your SPAM folder as the software needs it to know what is "spam". Is this correct? This would seem to be a flaw as this file will build up dramatically over time and be impossible to manage. Please advise. Can I empty my SPAM folder - or not? Lily Cornely Marketing Consultant CL Fund 1920 Gulf Tower 707 Grant Street Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412.201.2450 412.201.2451 - Fax lcornely(a)clfund.com

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