Mailman 3 March 2004 - SpamBayes

this might seem fickle...
by Nathan Sudds Sept. 25, 2004

Sept. 25, 2004

But I can't seem to get the icons back for my spambayes toolbar... I installed a toolbar for putting paypal payment buttons into my emails... it's another outlook addon.. ever since then the icons for Spambayes show up as the paypal icons... it's a minor thing but it's pretty annoying for a visual person like myself... any advice? I'm using the Windows version of the Outlook Addon of spambayes and I am running windows XP Pro with Outlook 2000. SpamBayes version .81 to start with but now I'm running the new .9 version.. and I'm glad it's much faster on my machine than .81 was... but I wouldn't mind having those icons back... Thanks, Nathan Sudds | CreativeDirector nsudds(a)arkitekture.com ::: ARKITEKTURE:::::::::::::: focusing our sites on building yours -------------------------------------------------------------------- [launch] // www.arkitekture.com

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[slightly OT] spammer 'random' words that are addressee-related?
by Denis Haskin Aug. 18, 2004

Aug. 18, 2004

(This isn't *quite* a spambayes question but I think there are knowledgable people here <grin> who can point me in the right direction to get more info. Feel free to declare this too off-topic and send me someplace else.) Like many of you (I'm sure), I'm sysadmin/network ops/hardware tech/customer support/etc for my family's home network. My wife showed me some spam she got this morning that included the usual 'random' words in the subject, but she was wondering if the words maybe weren't so random. The words seemed related to 2 email lists she's on. Now maybe this is just complete coincidence, but is it possible in fact that her email address was harvested somewhere and words were picked up from the harvesting context to be used when constructing spam to her? This seems like a lot of effort for not a lot of return... Also, we're *pretty* sure that both of these email lists are pretty well protected (e.g. they're not archived in any public place as far was we know). Also, they're obscure and small enough that I find it hard to believe it would be worth spammers' while to 'infiltrate' these lists (as they do with yahoo groups). It also occurred to me that perhaps someone else on these lists has a virus which is harvesting this from a local PC and sending it off to a spammer? Anyone have any thoughts? Is there any web site that catalogs known spamming tactics? Thanks, dwh

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RE: [Spambayes] More appreciation
by Tony Meyer May 23, 2004

May 23, 2004

> I've said this before, but I just have to say it again -- the > SpamBayes Outlook plugin, and the underlying engine, > absolutely rule! I can't recall if I've said this before, so I'll say it now :) Thanks for the kind words; we all really appreciate it. =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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Cannot connect to socket with sb_bnserver.py
by Remi Ricard April 19, 2004

April 19, 2004

Hi, I'm testing the new sb_bnserver.py and I have the following error message: File "/gmc/logiciels/spambayes/scripts/sb_bnfilter.py", line 214, in ? main() File "/gmc/logiciels/spambayes/scripts/sb_bnfilter.py", line 116, in main s = make_socket(server_options, filename) File "/gmc/logiciels/spambayes/scripts/sb_bnfilter.py", line 166, in make_socket s.connect(file) File "<string>", line 1, in connect socket.error: (111, 'Connection refused') The file on line "s.connect(file)" is file=/home/ricard/.sbbnsock-modeleT so this should be OK. I'm not running this as root but as the ricard user. The command line was cat email.msg | sb_nbserver.py -d my_hammie.db Remi -- Remi Ricard <papaDoc(a)videotron.ca>

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RE: [Spambayes] Windows XP SP2 breaks spambayes
by Tony Meyer April 13, 2004

April 13, 2004

> I have just installed XP SP2 beta, and spambayes breaks > with outlook 2003. anyone had experience with this? For all I know this is an actual problem, but just to check first: 1. What do you mean "breaks"? Just doesn't work anymore? Gives an error message? What does the log have? 2. Have you checked to see SpamBayes isn't just disabled? This happens with all sorts of Microsoft upgrades. =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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Spambayes training: not on sent messages?
by frank.clarijs＠belgacom.net April 13, 2004

April 13, 2004

I tried to train Spambayes today, but found it only trained on about half of the ham I served it. It seems that Spambayes is not training on messages that I sent, only on messages I received. Is that considered the normal way the tool works or is this somewhere a bug?

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Mailing List
by Chris Mooney April 11, 2004

April 11, 2004

I recently subscribed to Spambayes at the recommendation of a friend. I liked the sound of the methods your program uses to learn each users tastes. I have been using my current e-mail id for about 15 months, and remarkably only was receiving one or two junk mails a week. My main reason for installing Spambayes now was so I wouldn't forget about it by the time I really needed it. Within hours of installing Spambayes, I received a junk mail. Within the the next couple of days I was getting several a day. Now after two weeks, I'm getting five or six per day. While your program is handling them great, I resent the fact that you were obviously the source of spreading my e-mail, and now that it's out there, I know from experience the abuse will only grow. I will not recommend your program to anybody unless they already have a large problem with spam. Chris Mooney

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i can't even get off the ground with spambayes
by brown wrap April 2, 2004

April 2, 2004

i am not familiar with python and the programs that it can run, but i was asked to install spambayes. both python and spambayes are installed, but in trying to run the first test, it blows up: nuthatch 147# find /usr/depot/irix6x/python -name "*sb_imapfilter.py*" -print /usr/depot/irix6x/python/2.3.3/bin/sb_imapfilter.py nuthatch 148# /usr/depot/irix6x/python/2.3.3/bin/sb_imapfilter.py -b Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/depot/irix6x/python/2.3.3/bin/sb_imapfilter.py", line 98, in ? import socket File "/usr/depot/irix6x/python/2.3.3/lib/python2.3/socket.py", line 44, in ? import _socket ImportError: No module named _socket nuthatch 149# ===== >From the Back of the PacK: 5' 9" of Funk; if you have to ask, you wouldn't understand the answer. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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RE: [Spambayes] Spambayes on Mac OS X
by Tony Meyer April 1, 2004

April 1, 2004

> I moved to a new Mac with 10.3.3, so I decided to do a fresh > install of the latest of Spambayes. I downloaded the latest > (b10) from CVS. [...] > Checking the documentation page, I thought that there was > some room for a detailed proxy install for "Mac OS X newbie > Unix users" and I started it. Room, and then some <wink>. (Thanks muchly!) > It is currently a text document. I can make it an Html one. > > I enclose it below for review. Could you make it a reST one? That's what all the other (apart from the FAQ) website files are at the moment, with some magic turning them into HTML when they get pushed to the live site. Otherwise just the text should be fine, and I can convert it (it's just headings and some preformatted text, really). [...] > fgranger$ cd /Users/fgranger/spambayes > fgranger$ pico bayescustomize.ini > > Copy and past the following text inside the windows > > ---- start copy > [Storage] > persistent_use_database:pickle Two questions with this (with regards to making it a generic how-to, rather than specific for your been-using-spambayes-forever system): 1. Any reason why it's better to use a pickle rather than bsddb? 2. Any reason in particular to manually edit the baysecustomize.ini file rather than launch a browser and use the config page to do it? =Tony Meyer

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French ?
by Didier Morandi April 1, 2004

April 1, 2004

Good morning Madam, I'm Doctor Didier Morandi from Nigeria :-) Will this message go to your spam folder? (I hope). Seriously, I'm more than interested to work on the French port of SpamBayes. I did not find in the FAQ whether there is currently such work or not. Please let me know if this may be of interest. For us French speaking people around the world, it is easy to tell our filters to consider English as a spam language (which is obviously stupid) but we have no way to filter French spam via keywords statistical analysis and I guess this French spam practice may pop up one day in our countries. So... Thanks, D. Toulouse -- Discover the FutureVAX: www.futurevax.com Discover VAXUS: www.vaxus.org didier morandi ~ sarl au capital de 8 000 euros ~ Revendeur agréé HP Expertise en environnement DIGITAL ~ Formation ~ Programmation ~ Migration Offshore ~ 5 av. A. Durand 31700 Blagnac France. Tél: 33(0)5 6131 6287 SIRET 448 694 851 00016 RCS Toulouse http://www.didiermorandi.com

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