Mailman 3 August 2006 - SpamBayes

Using SpamBayes with Mozilla Thunderbird
by Carrie Bedingfield Aug. 25, 2006

Aug. 25, 2006

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As a donation, I propose to translate this soft in french
by Guillaume Pollet Aug. 25, 2006

Aug. 25, 2006

Hi, I am working for a french medium telecom firm. My duty consist to install and resolve issues in our customers' VoIP networks. I am also in charge of the improvement of the information system of my company. I am looking forward for new tools and methods to increase productivity. SpamBayes is a very interessant software. I installed it on several machines in my department and everyone who tried it are very satisfied. It save a lot of time sorting out the enormous quantity of spam we receive. I plan to deploy it on more machines soon. However, I think that it would be better to have this application in french. That's why I would like to participate to the translation of this tool, if you are interested in. Just let me know how to do this. You can give me a speadsheet or anything else that I can edit and I would translate all the sentences in french. Rgds, Guillaume

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Spam Filter 1.0.4
by Alexander Kalman Aug. 25, 2006

Aug. 25, 2006

Dear Sir, I would like to Download SpamBayes 1.0.4 (courtesy of PCUser magazine) in Sydney Australia but I am not with Optusnet but Telstra Bigpond Cable. Can I specify the Optusnet Mirror ? as there is no Telstra or Bigpond mentioned on your download page for Sydney. Thanking you Alex Kalman

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SpamBayes 1.1a3
by skip＠pobox.com Aug. 25, 2006

Aug. 25, 2006

The SpamBayes team is pleased to announce release 1.1a3 of SpamBayes. As is now usual, this is both a release of the source code and of an installation program for all Microsoft Windows users. This is an *ALPHA* release. It should only be installed by users willing to try out experimental software, and almost certainly contains new bugs. If you don't know what an alpha release is, please stick with 1.0.4 for the moment. The 1.1 release has been worked on since May of 2004, so contains a vast number of improvements over the 1.0.x line. These include, but are not limited to: * New database backends, including ZODB and ZOE. * Internationalisation support, including partial translations into French and Spanish. * Improved statistics reporting. * The ability to set audio notifications with the Outlook plug-in. * The ability to set the Outlook plug-in to move/copy ham, as well as spam/unsures. * Partial POP3 over SSL support for sb_server. * A vastly improved sb_imapfilter. * Several new experimental options, include one designed to help extract text content from image-based spams. Suggestions about what to try out can be found here: http://entrian.com/sbwiki/TryOutThePreRelease This release, like the ill-fated 1.0.2 and 1.0.3, is built with Python 2.4. We believe that the remaining incompatibilities with Python 2.4 have been resolved, and so this release should also include superior email parsing to the 1.0.x line. Details about the changes in this release can be found at http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=442102 You can get the release via the 'Download' page at http://spambayes.org/download.html Enjoy the new release and your spam-free mailbox As always, thanks to everyone involved in this release! Skip Montanaro. (on behalf of the SpamBayes team) --- What is SpamBayes? --- The SpamBayes project is working on developing a Bayesian (of sorts) anti-spam filter (in Python), initially based on the work of Paul Graham, but since modified with ideas from Robinson, Peters, et al. The project includes a number of different applications, all using the same core code, ranging from a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook, to a POP3 proxy, to various command-line tools and a command-line-based framework for testing new anti-spam techniques. The Windows installation program will install either the Outlook add-in (for Microsoft Outlook users), the SpamBayes server program (for all other POP3 mail client users, including Microsoft Outlook Express), or the SpamBayes IMAP filter (for all IMAP mail client users). All Windows users (including existing users of the Outlook add-in) are encouraged to use the installation program. If you wish to use the source-code version, you will also need to install Python - see README.txt in the source tree for more information.

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I cannot get to the troubleshooting guide
by Pete＠bedales Aug. 24, 2006

Aug. 24, 2006

I've tried the links to this guide (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/spambayes/spambay es/Outlook2000/docs/troubleshooting.html?rev=HEAD) on and off all day and it always times out! Can you help please. Regards Pete

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SpamBayes 1.0.4 on Windows 2003 Server SP1
by Philippe Ferreira Aug. 24, 2006

Aug. 24, 2006

Hi the list ! I managed without any problem to install SpamBayes on many Windows workstations. However, on a Windows 2003 Server SP1, the plugin hangs Outlook at startup. I've already seen this problem in the SpamBayes mailing lists, but I've not found any workaround to make it work... I've even tried to install python/pywin/spambayes from scratch, but with no luck... The same problem still appears... Thank you in advance for any hint, Philippe Ferreira, FRANCE.

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Latest CVS update, Ocrad for Windows
by skip＠pobox.com Aug. 24, 2006

Aug. 24, 2006

I updated the OCR capabilities a bit more today. I added more intelligent assembly of split images into a single image after noticing that the spammers don't simply chop up multi-part GIF images horizontally. I also added a couple extra options (ocrad_scale and ocrad_charset) which control the image scaling factor (default is 2) and character set (default is "ascii") Ocrad uses. Scaling the image by a factor of 2 was a pretty obvious win: false positive percentages 0.000 0.000 tied 0.000 0.000 tied 0.000 0.000 tied 0.000 0.000 tied 0.000 0.000 tied won 0 times tied 5 times lost 0 times total unique fp went from 0 to 0 tied mean fp % went from 0.0 to 0.0 tied false negative percentages 4.213 4.213 tied 1.404 0.843 won -39.96% 3.371 2.809 won -16.67% 2.528 2.247 won -11.12% 4.213 3.652 won -13.32% won 4 times tied 1 times lost 0 times total unique fn went from 56 to 49 won -12.50% mean fn % went from 3.14606741573 to 2.75280898876 won -12.50% Scaling by a factor of three was even better in the false negative department but regressed a bit in the false positive category so I checked Options.py in with a default scaling factor of 2. A couple things could stand to be further tested: * I have no idea how good Ocrad's scaling algorithm is. It's possible that PIL or NetPBM's scaling code is better. If so, it would make sense to scale the images before feeding to Ocrad. * The images I've see so far were all plain English, so I blindly made ascii the default charset. The other choices were iso-8859-9 and iso-8859-15. I simply assumed ascii would be the most appropriate default, but didn't test it. Finally, I put together a really simpleminded Ocrad-for-Windows release based upon the ocrad.exe binary that Tony built. Check the Files section of the SpamBayes project site: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61702 and grab ocrad-cygwin. There are a few caveats: 1. I don't do Windows. (No, really, I don't, strange as that may seem.) This is no fancy-schmancy point-and-shoot Windows installer. It's just a simple zip file with the Ocrad 0.15 distribution, Tony's .exe file and the patch he applied to the source. 2. I don't do Windows. The code I've written so far has been done entirely on my Mac. I've made no obvious concessions to portability. That said, I hope portability issues won't be daunting for any early adopters. 3. I don't do Windows. If you have problems it won't do you any good to mail me directly. Post about problems on the SpamBayes bug tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=61702&atid=498103 4. If you do Windows you will need PIL to take advantage of the recent changes: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ (unless you want to put hair on your chest and build NetPBM on Windows). Fredrik Lundh provides prebuilt Windows versions of PIL. Grab the one appropriate for the version of Python you have installed. 5. If you do Windows (or any other platform for that matter), feedback to the lists about successes and failures would be helpful. Cheers, Skip

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Recover from spam
by Mike Baril Aug. 24, 2006

Aug. 24, 2006

Trying to change the folder that this moves the email to. Can't figure it out.any suggestions? Mike Baril MRB Consulting, Inc Office: 508-875-9391 Cell: 617-905-8831 Fax: 508-969-9916 <http://www.mrb-consulting.com/> www.mrb-consulting.com

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Problem with POP3 Proxy: [email are not showed or don't appear in web interface]
by daniel.peyrous＠novalys-software.com Aug. 23, 2006

Aug. 23, 2006

I am using SpamBayes POP3 Proxy Version 1.0.4 (March 2005) (binary), with version 2.3.5 (#62, Feb 8 2005, 16:23:02) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] of Python; my operating system is Windows 5.1.2600.2 (Service Pack 2). I have trained 0 ham and 0 spam. The problem I am having is that I cannot see any email in the web interface. The emails spam go in the "spam" folder, but only 11 emails are stored.I don't know if it's enough to consider the soft "trained". Regards!

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(no subject)
by Chuck McVey Aug. 23, 2006

Aug. 23, 2006

For about 2-3 months I have been receiving E-Mails like the attached. Despite flagging each one as spam, SpamBayes is unable to identify subsequent E-Mails as suspect spam. I assume that 'they' have done something that renders these messages invisible to SpamBayes and that you may not be aware of them. Unless you desire subsequent messages to be sent to you, there is no need to respond directly to me. Thanks for your appl. Yours, Chuck McVey Owner Publisher: Our American Times www.ouramericantimes.com Huntington Beach, CA 714/968-3333 Home 714/965-6070 Office 714/330-3341 Cell 714/908-8590 Fax

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