Mailman 3 November 2006 - SpamBayes

Your recent mail to remove@audible.com
by Kim and Dennis Sabel Nov. 28, 2006

Nov. 28, 2006

I would like to remove myself from this application. I applied for the audible books last week and decided that I don't want to have this subscribtion. Please take my information off the account and unsubscribe myself to this. Thank you, Kim Sabel kdsabel(a)dotnet.com

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SB not filtering
by Richard Wakefield, Kusala Nov. 28, 2006

Nov. 28, 2006

Hi I've been running SB for some time now. I'm really pleased with it. I like to leave it running 24/7 to clear out all the overnight Spam. I've just reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled the latest version. Now SB does nothing with incoming mail until I click on "filter messages", it won't work automatically. Any ideas. Kind regards Richard Wakefield Managing Director Kusala Web Developments Ltd Lydgate House, Lydgate Lane, Sheffield, S10 5FH 0114 267 6002 07971 040054 www.kusala.com

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Spambayes major problem and help needed
by Rick King Nov. 28, 2006

Nov. 28, 2006

We have been long-time users of SpamBayes (Windows XP) and have gotten 10+ people on SpamBayes but please help know what to do about the major problem now having. Using POP3 Proxy Binary ver 1.0.4 March '05 and I am Reviewing and Training messages 2 times a day! 1. A tremendous amount of Spam mail is getting thru ! Literally HUNDREDS of spam messages daily are getting into my Inbox and thousands are getting caught by Spambayes. 2. MANY of the same SPAM sources and addresses and subjects keep getting thru and into inbox over & over & over (for weeks now; esp one from PEQV Parametric ! VERY nasty and repetitive - many dozens a day) 3. Is it because the spammers are using all image messages? (i.e. the text looks all funky and is a picture to throw things off) 4. Is there an update to help? Thank you for any help! - Rick ___________________________________ Rick King PreFlight Ventures (919) 806-1166 www.preflightventures.com Based in Research Triangle Park, NC, PreFlight Ventures helps entrepreneurs and new ventures grow their business through corporate partnering, technology licensing, and acquisitions: http://preflightventures.com/cpc/ In addition, we provide coaching tools for entrepreneurs: self-assessment scorecard, guidebooks, audio PreFlight PowerTips (http://preflightpowertips.com), profiles distributed to corporate partners & investors, and conduct national workshops and talks on Corporate Partnering, "The Art of Telling Your Story", commercialization, and "Doing Smart Deals." <><

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Spam Clues: RE: Friendly Reminder
by Dan Moya Nov. 27, 2006

Nov. 27, 2006

I keep getting this email user mail in my suspected junk e-mail. I am trying to correct this problem and am seeking help. Combined Score: 93% (0.927286) Internal ham score (*H*): 0.0343621 Internal spam score (*S*): 0.888935 # ham trained on: 1 # spam trained on: 2 34 Significant Tokens token spamprob #ham #spam 'from:addr:sailstx.org' 0.155172 1 0 "to:name:'dan moya'" 0.155172 1 0 'url:org' 0.155172 1 0 'url:rec-html40' 0.155172 1 0 'url:tr' 0.155172 1 0 'url:w3' 0.155172 1 0 'x-mailer:microsoft office outlook 11' 0.155172 1 0 'header:Date:1' 0.363946 1 1 'header:From:1' 0.363946 1 1 'header:MIME-Version:1' 0.363946 1 1 'header:Received:2' 0.363946 1 1 'header:Subject:1' 0.363946 1 1 'header:To:1' 0.363946 1 1 'proto:http' 0.363946 1 1 'url:www' 0.363946 1 1 '(210)' 0.844828 0 1 '2006' 0.844828 0 1 'antonio' 0.844828 0 1 'antonio,' 0.844828 0 1 'are' 0.844828 0 1 'december' 0.844828 0 1 'for' 0.844828 0 1 'have' 0.844828 0 1 'our' 0.844828 0 1 'please' 0.844828 0 1 'san' 0.844828 0 1 'services' 0.844828 0 1 'texas' 0.844828 0 1 'that' 0.844828 0 1 'the' 0.844828 0 1 'when' 0.844828 0 1 'you' 0.844828 0 1 'can' 0.908163 0 2 'subject: ' 0.908163 0 2 Message Stream Return-Path: <mrangarajan(a)sailstx.org> Received: from sheffield.xo.com (sheffield.xo.com [207.155.252.71]) by safeguard.xo.com (ConcentricHost(3.4) MX) with ESMTP id CCFF28E9E3 for <dmoya(a)sailstx.org>; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:08:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from mallika1 (ip67-154-44-19.z44-154-67.customer.algx.net [67.154.44.19]) (as mrangarajan(a)sailstx.org) by sheffield.xo.com (ConcentricHost(2.54) Relay) with ESMTP id 212943D36 for <dmoya(a)sailstx.org>; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:45:23 -0500 (EST) From: "Mallika Rangarajan" <mrangarajan(a)sailstx.org> To: "'Dan Moya'" <dmoya(a)sailstx.org> Subject: RE: Friendly Reminder Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:38:53 -0600 Message-ID: <!&!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAACcSdIk4VQlJoYHrZc+ZUc3CgAAAEAAAANR+vJshOedLur/LypgL 4jIBAAAAAA==(a)sailstx.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00E3_01C71207.DA185FD0" X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AccOWBSoU9Kc8MFSSxaXMqRp8gC/bAD3fjjQAAAyexAAANFEkA== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 In-Reply-To: <003801c71236$e7d26dd0$1d00a8c0(a)SAILS.local> Disposition-Notification-To: "Mallika Rangarajan" <mrangarajan(a)sailstx.org> X-AllowList: Yes X-MFData: [v2.3 t11,631114] X-UIDL: 708 December 15, 2006 Mallika Rangarajan Executive Administrative Assistant Human Resources Department San Antonio Independent Living Services 1028 S. Alamo San Antonio, Texas 78210 (210) 281-1878 ext. 19 V/TDD (210) 281-1759 FAX _____ From: Dan Moya [mailto:dmoya@sailstx.org] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 9:16 AM To: 'Mallika Rangarajan' Subject: RE: Friendly Reminder Question, when is our last day of December? _____ From: Mallika Rangarajan [mailto:mrangarajan@sailstx.org] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 9:11 AM To: 'Dan Moya' Subject: FW: Friendly Reminder When are you scheduling a fire drill so I can have the fire drill form ready? Please let me know asap. Thank you. Mallika Mallika Rangarajan Executive Administrative HR Manager Human Resources Department San Antonio Independent Living Services 1028 S. Alamo San Antonio, Texas 78210 (210) 281-1878 ext. 19 V/TDD (210) 281-1759 FAX _____ From: Kitty Brietzke [mailto:kbrietzke@sailstx.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 11:03 AM To: 'Mallika Rangarajan' Cc: 'Dan Moya' Subject: Friendly Reminder Just a friendly reminder that we need a fire drill for December. Kitty <html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 11"> <link rel=File-List href="cid:filelist.xml@01C71207.D99EC300"> <link rel=Edit-Time-Data href="cid:editdata.mso"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PostalCode"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/>  <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=Section1> December 15, 2006<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Mallika Rangarajan</st1:PersonName> Executive Administrative Assistant Human Resources Department <st1:City w:st="on">San Antonio</st1:City> Independent Living Services 1028 S. Alamo <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">San Antonio</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Texas</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">78210</st1:PostalCode></st1:place> (210) 281-1878 ext. 19 V/TDD (210) 281-1759 FAX <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From: Dan Moya [mailto:dmoya@sailstx.org] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 9:16 AM To: '<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Mallika Rangarajan</st1:PersonName>' Subject: RE: Friendly Reminder<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> Question, when is our last day of December?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Mallika Rangarajan</st1:PersonName> [mailto:mrangarajan@sailstx.org] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 9:11 AM To: 'Dan Moya' Subject: FW: Friendly Reminder<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> When are you scheduling a fire drill so I can have the fire drill form ready?  Please let me know asap.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thank you.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Mallika<o:p></o:p> <div> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Malli ka Rangarajan</st1:PersonName> Executive Administrative HR Manager Human Resources Department <st1:City w:st="on">San Antonio</st1:City> Independent Living Services 1028 S. Alamo <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">San Antonio</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Texas</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">78210</st1:PostalCode></st1:place> (210) 281-1878 ext. 19 V/TDD (210) 281-1759 FAX <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From: Kitty Brietzke [mailto:kbrietzke@sailstx.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 11:03 AM To: '<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Mallika Rangarajan</st1:PersonName>' Cc: 'Dan Moya' Subject: Friendly Reminder<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> Just a friendly reminder that we need a fire drill for December.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Kitty<o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html> All Message Tokens 117 unique tokens "'dan" "'mallika" '(210)' '1028' '11:03' '15,' '2006' '22,' '27,' '281-1759' '281-1878' '78210' '9:11' '9:16' '_____' 'alamo' 'antonio' 'antonio,' 'are' 'asap.' 'assistant' 'brietzke' 'can' 'cc:' 'cc:none' 'content-type:text/plain' 'dan' 'day' 'december' 'december.' 'december?' 'department' 'drill' 'email addr:sailstx.org]' 'email name:[mailto:dmoya' 'email name:[mailto:kbrietzke' 'email name:[mailto:mrangarajan' 'executive' 'ext.' 'fax' 'fire' 'for' 'form' 'friendly' 'from:' 'from:addr:mrangarajan' 'from:addr:sailstx.org' 'from:name:mallika rangarajan' 'fw:' 'have' 'header:Date:1' 'header:From:1' 'header:In-Reply-To:1' 'header:MIME-Version:1' 'header:Message-ID:1' 'header:Received:2' 'header:Return-Path:1' 'header:Subject:1' 'header:To:1' 'human' 'independent' 'just' 'kitty' 'know' 'last' 'let' 'living' 'mallika' 'manager' 'message-id:@sailstx.org' 'monday,' 'moya' "moya'" 'need' 'november' 'our' 'please' 'proto:http' 'question,' 'rangarajan' "rangarajan'" 're:' 'ready?' 'reminder' 'reply-to:none' 'resources' 'san' 'scheduling' 'sender:none' 'sent:' 'services' 'skip:a 10' 'subject:' 'subject: ' 'subject:: ' 'subject:Friendly' 'subject:Reminder' 'texas' 'thank' 'that' 'the' 'to:' 'to:2**0' 'to:addr:dmoya' 'to:addr:sailstx.org' "to:name:'dan moya'" 'url:org' 'url:rec-html40' 'url:tr' 'url:w3' 'url:www' 'v/tdd' 'wednesday,' 'when' 'x-mailer:microsoft office outlook 11' 'you' 'you.'

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Outlook 2000 Toolbar Buttons Not Working
by Rowan Nov. 27, 2006

Nov. 27, 2006

I'm using SpamBayes with Outlook 2000. The Delete as Spam and Recover from Spam buttons on the toolbar very rarely work (sometimes they work just a couple of times after a restart, but then they stop working). This is making SpamBayes pretty well useless for me, since I can't recover mail from the Junk Suspects folder, therefore SpamBayes never learns not to junk the messages I want. I'm on the point of giving up and looking for another spam filter. This forum seems to have loads of mesages from people suffering with the same problem. Before I finally give up on SpamBayes, has anyone got a solution for this problem? Is anyone working on a solution? Does anyone understand what the problem is? Thanks - Rowan -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Outlook-2000-Toolbar-Buttons-Not-Working-tf2710826.ht… Sent from the Python - spambayes mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Outlook 2003 loading error
by Neil Hymans- Technically Speaking Nov. 27, 2006

Nov. 27, 2006

Hi guys Love your work! I've just installed Outlook 03 on a new machine with Windows XP SP2. MS Update has done its thing and Outlook & all the Office bits have the most current updates available. When I installed the SpamBayes plugin for Outlook, Outlook crashed repeatedly. I have followed all the advice in the troubleshooting but with no success. (I used SpamBayes on my previous system with the same environment as above and it worked perfectly every time, so I know what I should be seeing.) I thought there might be two possible causes: a conflict with another Add-in (MS PST backup) or perhaps the fact that my PST was set up from my last configuration to display the "spam rating" field in the inbox. So I uninstalled PST backup and SpamBayes, restarted & closed Outlook without errors, then reinstalled SpamBayes - no joy. I then did the same thing after removing the Spam Rating field from my inbox - this didn't make any difference either. I doubt the attached log files are going to tell you much, but I'd be grateful for any suggestions you might have for anything else I should try. Best regards Neil Hymans

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JOB OFFER
by Tanya Miller Nov. 26, 2006

Nov. 26, 2006

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Question
by Ron Garland Nov. 24, 2006

Nov. 24, 2006

Hi, I just installed SpamBayes and love it; however, I have my Inbox configured using sub-folders under my Inbox, and rules that send an email into one of five different email identities based on the email address in the To field of the email. As a result, the Junk Suspects folder isn't receiving any emails. As I receive emails into the various folders, if they are spam, I use your Delete As Spam button to remove them. Is SpamBayes "learning" that they are spam even if they don't get routed first through the Junk Suspects folder, or do I have to configure my Outlook with a single Inbox? Thanks, Ron Garland Lone Wolf Marketing 406-556-5085 Office 406-581-2889 Fax

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Suggestion
by Mr. A.J. O'Neill Nov. 23, 2006

Nov. 23, 2006

More years ago than I care to remember I did a Masters thesis on incorporating time dependent query terms in search queries used for searching "News" feeds. Part of the thesis involved implementing a test system. One of the many steps involved in the processing was the removal (or ignoring of) punctuation before searching for search tokens. I draw your attention to the following extract from a Spam Clues report 'beneficiary' 0.844828 0 1 'beneficiary.' 0.844828 0 1 I would argue that there is no difference between these two tokens and that the inclusion of the punctuation adds nothing to the process but in this instance is likely to give the token a lower score than may be appropriate. I further draw your attention to the following extracts from the same Spam Clues report: '+31633775038' 0.844828 0 1 '30%' 0.844828 0 1 '65%to' 0.844828 0 1 '7.5.430' 0.867197 4 2 '17/11/2006' 0.909938 1 2 '268.14.7/537' 0.909938 1 2 '5:56' 0.909938 1 2 While strings of numbers such as TCP/IP addresses may be useful in differentiating spam from ham, generally numbers, digits and amounts for currency are not good choices for tokens. In particular the above date '17/11/2006' and time '5:56' tokens can normally be considered to be random and are unlikely to be of any use in classifying spam/ham. I also used a stop list of words which are so common that they are useless to index or use in search engines or other search indexes. Below are a number of instances of words which I believe are not appropriate tokens to use to differentiate between spam and ham emails. 'under' 0.814607 3 1 'its' 0.862812 1 1 'us.' 0.862812 1 1 'our' 0.611666 16 2 'when' 0.637817 7 1 'that' 0.664752 19 3 'all' 0.674394 12 2 'around' 0.739628 4 1 'it,' 0.848794 1 1 'up,' 0.848794 1 1 'p.m.' 0.813589 7 2 'does' 0.814607 3 1 Generally I find the current version of SpamBayes to be a very useful tool but I would like the ability to permanently set the value of a token i.e. I'd like to be able to set the token 'pharmacy' to value 1.0 to ensure that all emails containing it are classified as spam; likewise I'd like to classify certain terms as having value 0.0 so that they are always classified as ham. Keep up the good work and I hope that my suggestions are worthwhile. Regards A.J. O'Neill M. App. Sc. M.B. Computing Grad. Dip. K.B.S.

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Problem with struct.unpack in oe_mailbox.py
by Spandex Nov. 23, 2006

Nov. 23, 2006

I'm running spambayes (1.0.4-3) on Debian unstable with Python 2.4.4c0 and a custom compiled 2.6.17 kernel. I'm using an AMD64 chip. sb_server starts up ok and proxies pop3 and smtp connections ok. I can train from the commandline ok. The problem comes when I try to train it from the web interface (using either mbox or dbx format). It bombs with the following error:- ---------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spambayes/Dibbler.py", line 470, in found_terminator getattr(plugin, name)(**params) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spambayes/UserInterface.py", line 494, in onTrain content = self._convertToMbox(content) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spambayes/UserInterface.py", line 536, in _convertToMbox content = oe_mailbox.convertToMbox(content) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spambayes/oe_mailbox.py", line 444, in convertToMbox if header.isValid() and header.isMessages(): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spambayes/oe_mailbox.py", line 117, in isValid return self.getEntry(0) == dbxFileHeader.MAGIC_NUMBER File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spambayes/oe_mailbox.py", line 126, in getEntry self.dbxBuffer[dbxEntry * 4:(dbxEntry * 4) + 4])[0] error: unpack str size does not match format ---------------- I'm wondering whether this is something to do with my machine architecture and the sizes of datatypes? But I'm stabbing in the dark. I can easily disable dbx support by commenting out.. content = oe_mailbox.convertToMbox(content) .. around line 536 of UserInterface.py, and this does enable me to train on mbox format via the web interface, but I'd rather keep dbx support if possible. Any ideas? Thanks, Matt

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