Mailman 3 June 2006 - SpamBayes

spambayes quit working and won't reinstall
by Norm Dingle Feb. 7, 2007

Feb. 7, 2007

I am running Outlook 2003 and had Spambayes running fine. All of a sudden it quit working. I have read the trouble shooting manual and nothing seems to work. I have uninstalled Spambayes and reinstalled several times. The log file says it is registered. When I go to the Advanced options/Comm Addinns dialog Spambay show in the list but unchecked. I check it and then restart Outlook. No Spambayes. The addin dialog then shows it unchecked again. Right now I don’t have any other ideas about what to try. Thanks Norm -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/90 - Release Date: 9/5/2005

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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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Sharing database among multiple IMAP clients?
by Deneb Meketa Aug. 25, 2006

Aug. 25, 2006

Hello! I'm completely new to SpamBayes, and I'm trying to figure out how I want to set it up for myself. Thanks to the list in advance. I'll probably be using an IMAP server and accessing my mail from two main places - work and home. My question is: how can I (and should I, even) share the training data between the two locations? Ideally I'd like to maintain just one database, since this will all be a single set of mail; otherwise I'd have to repeat the same training at home and at work. Several possibilities occur to me, and I'm curious to hear other users' suggestions on these: 1. Manually copy the database file(s) from one location to the other. There are several variations on this. I could just do the initial training in one location and copy to the other, then maintain each database separately thereafter, expecting the follow-on training to take much less work. Or I could copy the DB each time I did some training. Or, if there's some reliable way to merge the two slightly different DBs, I could periodically do that. 2. Maintain the database file(s) on a server somewhere. This is really more what I want, but it's harder to arrange. The best thing, obviously, would be to run SpamBayes on the server, but I'm expecting that, for reliability and simplicity, I'll probably be using a shared commercial server where I can't install SpamBayes. But even if I'm running SpamBayes on the client, I could maintain a single DB in some online location. I could stick it on an FTP or rsync server, and have a script (or maybe even write a SpamBayes extension) that downloads it when I begin using SpamBayes and uploads it when I'm done. I could store the DB at work and map a Windows network drive to point at my work machine through my VPN, and configure SpamBayes at home to use the DB on the network drive - but my VPN isn't completely reliable, so that could be a hassle. Or perhaps there are distributed-DB features built into some of the storage options that SpamBayes can use? 3. Carry a little USB drive around with me, and keep the DB on that. (Does the DB get too big for this to be practical?) 4. Super Crazy Ninja Trick?: enhance the SpamBayes IMAP proxy with the ability to maintain a DB in a folder on the IMAP server, download it before beginning filtering, and upload it whenever it is modified. If this seems productive, and the feature doesn't yet exist, I'd be happy to add it if I can find the time. Surely others have run into the same DB-replication question. Is there any conventional wisdom on this yet? I didn't find anything obviously related in the wiki, the FAQ, or the mail archives. I realize the question probably does come down to a simple issue of "how do I share a file between multiple sites?", which isn't particular to SpamBayes, but maybe SpamBayes users are a good crowd to ask such a question of. Any help is much appreciated! Best, Deneb Meketa, San Francisco.

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Re: [Spambayes] users should share database
by Jesse Pelton Aug. 25, 2006

Aug. 25, 2006

As far as I know, SpamBayes does no contention management (locking) on its databases. As a result, there's no robust way to share a database among multiple processes. So I think that even if you solve the current problem, you won't be able to get this approach to work. If you need to filter mail for multiple users with a single database, you'll probably need to set up server-side filtering, so only one process uses the database. Personally, I think the individualized nature of the database is one of SpamBayes' greatest assets. One man's ham is another's spam. Even if you get it working, using a single database to filter for multiple users seems likely to provide a lower quality of filtering (from your users' point of view) than individual databases would. > -----Original Message----- > From: spambayes-bounces(a)python.org > [mailto:spambayes-bounces@python.org] On Behalf Of Mag. Arno > Schoblocher > Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 10:38 AM > To: spambayes(a)python.org > Subject: [Spambayes] users should share database > > Hello, > > I tested the outlook add-in twice now but I could not make it > work: I am > trying to have a central database for all users, however, it > does not work > because the user-based ini-file on the central network drive > has always the > same name (eg. outlook.ini, or MS Exchange Settings.ini) for > every user. > > So, for one user the network share works, if another user starts he > overwrites the existing "outlook.ini" file with his personal > data also named > "outlook.ini" (eg. outlook folder names). > > My problem behind is that I would like to know if I can > install Spambayes on > a Windows 2000 SP4 Terminal Server running Outlook XP (Office > XP), however, > I could not find any useful instruction for installation in > readme-files and > the mail archives. > > How do I install the Spambayes outlook addin with a central > spam database on > a Win2k Terminal Server or Win2k Pro with multiple users? I > would very much > appreciate if someone could add an article about how to > install Spambayes on > a Windows multi user system (Win2k Pro or Win2k/2k3 server) > additionally to > the existing documentation. > > Maybe I am doing something wrong. I installed the software > (with change user > /install on the TS), run > outlook_addin_register.exe hkey_local_machine > edit the ini-file to use the network share. > > When starting Outlook the wizard comes up, however, everybody > writes to the > same ini-file. > > Regards > > arno

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Re: [Spambayes] spambayes
by Coe, Bob June 30, 2006

June 30, 2006

There's a whiff of cluelessness in the phrasing of the question that leads me to wonder if the user is trying to use the Outlook plugin with OE (in which case "doing nothing" would be the expected result). User, I apologize in advance if that's not what you're trying to do. ;^) Bob -----Original Message----- From: spambayes-bounces(a)python.org [mailto:spambayes-bounces@python.org] On Behalf Of Jesse Pelton Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 10:50 AM To: SBC; spambayes(a)python.org Subject: Re: [Spambayes] spambayes I can't say for sure whether it works with your version of Windows, but I'd be surprised if it didn't. Have you read http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/faq.html#does-spambayes-work-with-outlo ok-express and followed the directions it points to? _____ From: spambayes-bounces(a)python.org [mailto:spambayes-bounces@python.org] On Behalf Of SBC Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 9:58 AM To: spambayes(a)python.org Subject: [Spambayes] spambayes I installed spambayes using Outlook Express and it does nothing. Is it compatible with Windows XP Mediacenter? Daryl

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Re: [Spambayes] [spambayes-dev] tte.py not working with zodb - no spam/ham counts
by Tony Meyer June 30, 2006

June 30, 2006

> I'm trying to finish switching from bsddb to zodb. [...] > Seems to work fine (it spits out all the usual chattiness about number of > messages trained and missed), but when I run sb_dbexpimp.py on the > result it shows 0 ham and 0 spam and generates a csv file with just > > 0,0 As far as I can see contrib/tte.py just uses the standard classifier interface ("learn", "unlearn", "spamprob"), right? That should work fine with ZODB - it should automatically persist all attributes, including "nham" and "nspam". It appears to work for me (although I'm really not familiar with tte.py). Are you telling sb_dbexpimp.py it's a ZODB? Marshall:~/spambayes tameyer$ env PYTHONPATH=. python contrib/tte.py -g ham.mbox -s spam.mbox -R -o Storage:persistent_use_database:zodb -o Storage:persistent _storage_file:./hammie.fs -c .cull -v No handlers could be found for logger "ZODB.FileStorage" *** round 1 *** 2miss ham: 0.500000 <1060756493-6904164(a)quibble.com> miss spam: 0.000000 <1060756493-6904164(a)quibble.com> round: 1, msgs: 2, ham misses: 1, spam misses: 1, 0.5s [snip round 2 to round 9] *** round 10 *** 2miss ham: 0.500000 <1060756493-6904164(a)quibble.com> miss spam: 0.500000 <1060756493-6904164(a)quibble.com> round: 10, msgs: 2, ham misses: 1, spam misses: 1, 0.4s writing new ham mbox... 1 of 1 writing new spam mbox... 1 of 1 Marshall:~/spambayes tameyer$ env PYTHONPATH=. python scripts/sb_dbexpimp.py -e -f test.csv -o Storage:persistent_storage_file:./hammie.fs -o Storage:persistent_use_database:zodb No handlers could be found for logger "ZODB.FileStorage" Exporting database /Users/tameyer/spambayes/./hammie.fs to file test.csv Database has 10 ham, 10 spam, and 1903 words =Tony.Meyer

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Outlook Express
by Mike O'Doherty June 30, 2006

June 30, 2006

Can I monitor Outlook Express with this product? Regards

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Question
by Glenn Merritts June 30, 2006

June 30, 2006

I will be getting a new laptop shortly. Will I be able to move the current level of checking to the new system or will I have to start training the system again? Thanks for the help Glenn Merritts

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Filter before rules
by digital tuning, inc. June 30, 2006

June 30, 2006

I use a lot of rules to move emails that come in multiple pop3 accounts into various local and exchange folders. I also copy some emails to certain exchange folders for mobile access. In order to get SB to catch all spam, I had to point it to check not only the inbox, but all the folders that email might get moved/copied to. But set up this way, for every spam received, I get two emails in the junk folder because it's moving the original and the copy. Is there any way to get spambayes to process emails before outlook runs it's rule list?? TIA, Mike

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Spam
by Douglas Winton (Spearhead) June 29, 2006

June 29, 2006

spambayes is deleting an email from a good source. How do I correct this? Regards Douglas

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