Mailman 3 October 2004 - SpamBayes

RE: [Spambayes] Win32 Command Line
by Tony Meyer Jan. 10, 2007

Jan. 10, 2007

> I've been trying to find a way to run SpamBayes from the > command line against "raw" email files on Windows Server > 2003. Obviously, I'm trying to integrate this with a mail > server. Does anybody have any experience with this or > suggestions on where I can find more information? My initial > searches have come up empty handed. You need to be running from source, and the sb_filter script is probably a good place to start. You may wish to read: <http://spambayes.org/server_side.html>. =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] Important: new feature!
by Tony Meyer Nov. 2, 2004

Nov. 2, 2004

> I understand what you're saying, and I've re-trained > spambayes on equal numbers of HAM and SPAM, 300 each. Yet, it > still has a tendency to classify some HAM as spam. A > significant percentage is like maybe 25% of my regular > announcement mail gets spamflagged... Something is definitely not working here - a 25% false positive rate is extraordinarily high. You shouldn't even get as high as 2.5%. Perhaps you could send the spam clues report for one of these messages (before any training on it) to the list? We could take a look at it and see if there's an obvious reason that it's failing to be classified correctly. > Perhaps I have a better > solution: I have a lot of mailtraffic from the local > university network and a lot of correspondence, announcements > etc arrive from addresses with the "phys.uu.nl" suffix. > Surely it must be possible to exclude messages whose > returnaddress contain that string (or other certified > addresses) from further processing by spambayes? This is called "whitelisting", and SpamBayes does not do it. For a lengthy explanation, please see FAQ 6.6: <http://spambayes.org/faq.html#why-don-t-you-add-whitelisting-blacklisting-t o-spambayes> You ought to be able to implement some sort of whitelisting with Outlook's rule system, however. =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] IMAP Error: Must specify server details first
by Tony Meyer Nov. 1, 2004

Nov. 1, 2004

> Wow, Tony, such service! Do you find time for anything else? Well, a great many other people also work on the project, of course :) And sometimes (like now) replies can take some time (sorry) - and even then, there are still 212 spambayes(a)python.org messages that I would like time to address after this one... > However, I'm still having trouble. So here's the dumb newbie > question of the day: HOW do I stop the script? Ctrl-C is a perfectly valid way of stopping it - however, try not to do this when it's in the midst of a training session. I'm happy to accept suggestions of alternative methods of shutting it down. > Now, tonight, when I start the script: > > sb_imapfilter.py -b -v > > I'm not getting a browser window. The verbose output gives me > three messages, which look okay, with no errors, but no > browser. And opening a browser window and entering the URL > manually gives me an error. > > I'd send you the log, but I don't know where to find it. imapfilter doesn't have a log, just whatever gets printed to the output window. (This is the same if you run any of the scripts from source). It's very strange that you don't get an error, and can't access the web interface. Has anything else changed in this time? If you telnet to port 8880 when imapfilter is running can you connect? (Or you could use netstat to see if it's listed). =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] Trainig block
by Tony Meyer Oct. 31, 2004

Oct. 31, 2004

> (2) I use a firewall - Zone Alarm Pro (latest version). > When this is deactivated the message at the bottom of > Mozilla reads "transferring information from local host...", > but again the browser hangs up at that point. ZoneAlarm is probably the cause. Does FAQ 5.10 apply? (I don't think so, but thought I should check): <http://spambayes.org/faq.html#when-viewing-the-sb-server-review-page-my-com puter-becomes-unresponsive> You should check to make sure that ZoneAlarm is set to allow connections to localhost (it doesn't by default with the highest setting, IIRC). I'm sure I've written something about that here before, but I can't find it for some reason. If you have trouble checking that, let me know and I'll have another look. =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. http://www.massey.ac.nz/~tameyer/writing/reply_all.html explains this.

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RE: [Spambayes] Installation Question
by Tony Meyer Oct. 31, 2004

Oct. 31, 2004

> I downloaded and ran the installation program, but > nothing seems to happen. Did the installer run through to completion without any errors? > The wizard didn't start when I opened Outlook, I can't > find any icons, nor can I find anything in the > "Programs" file. What's happening? It sounds like it wasn't installed. If you look in C:\Program Files, is there a SpamBayes folder there? If you look in your temp folder (probably C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Local Settings\temp) is there a Spambayes1.log file there? (If there is, then the contents of this could help us figure out what is happening). =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: Administration
by someone＠somedomain.com Oct. 30, 2004

Oct. 30, 2004

During a routine email scan at UTC, a file attached to this message was deleted per UTC Security Policy. UTC does not allow emailing several file types due to their potential to transmit viruses. An attachment named data.txt .pif was removed from this message. The body text of the message that included the deleted attachment can be found in the .txt file below. It is safe to open this file. If you believe this message is not business related simply delete it. If the message is business related and you require the file that was deleted, please contact the sender and arrange an alternate means of receiving it. The recommended method is to have the sender zip the file before sending it. Secure Mail System Beta Test.

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Content violation
by Symantec_AntiVirus_for_SMTP_Gateways＠ansi.org Oct. 29, 2004

Oct. 29, 2004

Content violation found in email message. From: spambayes(a)python.org To: info(a)ansi.org File(s): message.scr Matching filename: *.scr

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Re: patched
by companysys.admin＠otis.com Oct. 29, 2004

Oct. 29, 2004

During a routine email scan at UTC, a file attached to this message was deleted per UTC Security Policy. UTC does not allow emailing several file types due to their potential to transmit viruses. An attachment named bill_spambayes.txt .pif was removed from this message. The body text of the message that included the deleted attachment can be found in the .txt file below. It is safe to open this file. If you believe this message is not business related simply delete it. If the message is business related and you require the file that was deleted, please contact the sender and arrange an alternate means of receiving it. The recommended method is to have the sender zip the file before sending it. Your document is attached. +++ Attachment: No Virus found +++ Panda AntiVirus - www.pandasoftware.com

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RE: [Spambayes] Trainig block
by Tony Meyer Oct. 29, 2004

Oct. 29, 2004

> When I double click on the Spambayes tray icon to train > the program my web browser (Mozilla) opens but hangs up > saying "waiting for local host...". > > Does Sapmbayes work with Mozilla? Yes. What happens if you type "http://localhost:8880" in Mozilla's address bar? Do you get the same error? If so, check that you're not trying to go through a proxy for localhost addresses (Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Proxies, then you need to have "localhost" in the "No proxy for" entry, or be using "Direct connection to the Internet"). =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. http://www.massey.ac.nz/~tameyer/writing/reply_all.html explains this.

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RE: [Spambayes] Trainig block
by Tony Meyer Oct. 29, 2004

Oct. 29, 2004

[Tony Meyer] >> When I double click on the Spambayes tray icon to train >> the program my web browser (Mozilla) opens but hangs up saying >> "waiting for local host...". [Michael Kimball] > I thought I saw something on the MozillaZine forums about > this being a bug, but I couldn't find the reference. There > are several hits for a search for "localhost" on > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ , but I'm afraid I couldn't > make any sense of them. Maybe someone who has some > experience with bugzilla on mozilla.org can help with this. I had a quick look, but nothing looks relevant. I can confirm that it definitely works with Mozilla 1.6 (on WinXP) and Mozilla 1.7.3 (on WinXP). =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. http://www.massey.ac.nz/~tameyer/writing/reply_all.html explains this.

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