Mailman 3 July 2007 - SpamBayes

Is Equal Ham & Spam really the best?
by Brendon Whateley July 31, 2007

July 31, 2007

Hi all, I've just started using spambayes again after a while away from it. Now, 3 days in, I notice that I've trained on far more spam than ham. (Total emails trained: Spam: *432* Ham: *64) I seem to remember that this was previously my experience in the past. My question is; has anybody really tested the assertion that leads to the message: "**Warning: you have much more spam than ham - SpamBayes works best with approximately even numbers of ham and spam."?* * For the record, my statistics so far are: *SpamBayes has processed 5411 messages - 1279 (24%) good, 3189 (59%) spam and 943 (17%) unsure. Thanks, Brendon.

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Re: Mail Delivery (failure travel@customercare.expedia.com)
by Haskins, Doryce July 30, 2007

July 30, 2007

I doryce Haskins need to correct my e-mail address as well as reset my password. and my phone #is 617-732-6421 Doryce Haskins BIMA <mailto:dhaskins1@partners.org> dhaskins1(a)partners.org The information transmitted in this electronic communication is intended only for the person or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this information in error, please contact the Compliance HelpLine at 800-856-1983 and properly dispose of this information.

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New version, or alternative program?
by Daniel Williams July 30, 2007

July 30, 2007

I have been using SpamBayes for a while now, and occasionally look for updates. Is there any chance of an update in the future, or is the project dead? Are there any alternatives you could recommend? I use the SpamBayes outlook plugin on Windows. It is working fine, but I just want to make sure that I have alternatives in case a new version of Outlook or Windows breaks it. Cheers, Daniel Williams

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Alternative to Gmail?
by skip＠pobox.com July 30, 2007

July 30, 2007

This is more than a bit off-topic for this list, but as the folks here are interested in email and spam I thought I'd see what recommendations you have. Since leaving the Mojam/Musi-Cal space about 6-8 months ago and no longer having easy, guaranteed long-term access to a mail server I've been using Gmail. On the surface it's quite nice. I can read mail through the web wherever I happen to be, and it seemed that it was doing a pretty good job of filtering out spam, taking a load off both SpamBayes and my laptop. Over the past few days it's become increasingly obvious though that Gmail is actually doing a very bad job of spam filtering. I don't mind the few true spams that it misses, maybe 10-15 per day, most of which SpamBayes classifies correctly. I first noticed it when I noticed much of the mail I sent to lists I post to frequently were themselves being classified as spam. It seems that Gmail is mistakenly classifying several good emails each day as spam, again, maybe 10-15 messages. That means I must wade through the thousands of emails in my spam box searching among the detritus for the good messages Gmail missed. Hardly makes sense to use a spam filter if you have to pick through your spam manually. To make matters worse, they provide essentially no tools to help in that search. For instance, you can't select all the non-English (or non-Roman character set) spams to quickly get them out of the way. You can't turn a knob to make their spam filter less aggressive (or disable it altogether). The mail messages aren't marked in any way that would indicate why Gmail thought a particular message was spam. Long story short, I think I want to find an alternative email provider. Are any of the others any better? I do need POP or IMAP access. Beyond that I'm pretty flexible. Thx, Skip

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Missing toolbars Outlook 2007
by Wendy Baird July 28, 2007

July 28, 2007

The installation completed successfully but no toolbars appear. The logfile only contains one line : Unregistered: SpamBayes.OutlookAddin. SpamBayes appears in the Trust Center but is described as Inactive. Does anyone have any suggestions how I might activate it? Thanks Wendy

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Error-Guard Support Request
by StandnOnPromises＠aol.com July 28, 2007

July 28, 2007

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Windows Reported an Error ---
by Bunkie McBride July 27, 2007

July 27, 2007

About a week ago, upon closing, Windows (XP Professional) reported that an add-in program had caused a serious error in Outlook and wanted to know if I wanted to disable this feature. I confirmed it be disabled but the next time I closed windows I rec'd the same message again. I again confirmed to disable. SpamBayes is currently not functioning. Please advise what I should do. Thanks, Bunkie

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Breach of Privacy
by Thomas Mark July 27, 2007

July 27, 2007

Dear Spambayes, I sent an e-mail earlier about some e-mails from my company to your company regarding tech support. These e-mails found on google.com contained confidential information and had disclaimers as such in the e-mails. I have since found several of these e-mails easily searchable on google.com and free for the world to see. This puts my company at financial jeopardy as we are held liable for content that was supposed to be kept in private and via your servers with the rest of the world. We consider this an egregious breach of security and privacy between my company and Spambayes. I would appreciate a full scan of your database for any and all reference to IMERGE Consulting and have it cleared from public record. This breach could cause serious trouble for my company and we are placing utmost concern with this issue. An Immediate response would be very appreciated.

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Office 2007 Compatibility
by Jesse Bowler July 27, 2007

July 27, 2007

Hello, I am Jesse Bowler and I was trying to install spambayes on my new computer. I have always used it on my other machines in the past. I have upgraded my office version from office 2003 Professional, to the newest version of Office 2007. But every time I went to install spambayes, it would crash Microsoft Outlook 2007. Is there any known compatibility issues with this new version of Outlook or was there something that I was not doing correctly with the install. Any information you can give me would be completely and greatly appreciated. Thank you, Jesse Bowler

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sb_filter.py startup time
by John Lee July 27, 2007

July 27, 2007

Hello, I'm having some trouble with sb_filter.py startup performance that I'm hoping someone may be able to help with. Invocation of sb_filter.py takes several seconds and spikes CPU usage. It seems that importing the Spambayes libraries takes a lot of time: $ time python -c "from spambayes import hammie, Options, mboxutils, storage" real 0m16.708s user 0m0.456s sys 0m9.005s Importing other packages doesn't seem to produce this problem. For example: $ time python -c "from os import *" real 0m2.760s user 0m0.030s sys 0m1.531s I'm not a python programmer, so I can only speculate that this is not normal behavior. Can anyone shed some light on this? 16 second startup times are inconvenient when fetching a lot of mail. I've had this problem with both Spambayes 1.0.4 as well as 1.1a4. I'm running Python 2.5.1, compiled from source, on MacOS X 10.4.10. I'm currently using the ZODB persistent store but have seen this problem with pickles and DBM stores as well. The database is currently at 3MB. Thanks for your help. Cheers, John

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