Mailman 3 January 2010 - SpamBayes

Spambayes on Windows 7
by bob Feb. 19, 2010

Feb. 19, 2010

I have just tried out Spambayes 1.0.4 on Windows 7, Outlook 2003. It works fine. You just have to set it up in Pop3 mode and use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost for the Outlook Pop server. The integrated Outlook mode didn't work, and Windows 7 doesn't recognize localhost.

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Using SpamBayes
by Mark Sciora Jan. 31, 2010

Jan. 31, 2010

I have two questions regarding use of this excellent product: 1) Can the default folder for the SpamBayes *.db and *.ini files be moved, and the program reconfigured to point to the new location? 2) Can SpamBayes be configured to work with multiple profiles in Outlook 2007 running on Win XP Pro SP3? Mark Sciora

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SpamBayes failing
by John VanSickle Jan. 29, 2010

Jan. 29, 2010

Hi, I am encountering a problem with SpamBayes(v1.1r4) everytime I open my Outlook (v2003). Every time I open outlook, I get the following message: "There was an error initializing the SpamBayes addin Please re-start Outlook and try again." I have tried uninstalling SpamBayes and reinstalling. No joy. I then tried uninstalling, going into program files and deleting the SpamBayes directory, going into Documents and Settings/<name>/Application Data and deleting the SpamBayes directory there, then reinstalling. Still no joy. I have verified that the COM control was available, yet it still fails. Do you have any suggestions? I love SpamBayes and have used it for years. But now, it just wont work. Thanks, John VanSickle (480) 326-0410 johnvansickle(a)cox.net BTW, I do computer service for a living, so I am very capable with a computer. You don't have to dumb down your answers for me.

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Re: [Spambayes] SpamBayes 1.1a4 crashes when first starting up after reinstalling...
by Taed Wynnell Jan. 29, 2010

Jan. 29, 2010

After 6 months, this was resolved by disabling DEP for Outlook. (This is sent to the list so that others searching might find my answer.) In expectation of this day, I still have all my saved Spam for the last 10 years (49,313 items), so retraining and getting back to where I used to be was no problem. And, of course, the solution is sitting right in the FAQ: 5.8 After installing SpamBayes, Outlook crashes and then asks for the plug-in to be disabled. <http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/faq.html#id68> Are you using an Athlon 64 or Core 2 Duo with DEP? There are issues with DEP and Outlook with a SpamBayes-based plug-in. Listing Outlook as a safe application on these processors should "solve" the problem. ________________________________ From: Taed Wynnell Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:59 PM To: 'spambayes(a)python.org' Subject: RE: SpamBayes 1.1a4 crashes when first starting up after reinstalling... I still haven't been able to get any farther on this, despite a few more attempts. Is there some way to at least get a dump file so that I would look at the crash in WinDbg and hopefully find an obvious problem? ________________________________ From: Taed Wynnell Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 10:44 AM To: 'spambayes(a)python.org' Subject: SpamBayes 1.1a4 crashes when first starting up after reinstalling... I just got a new machine running Windows XP SP 3 and Outlook 2003. Both are completely updated. I first installed SpamBayes 1.0.4, and that went fine, but I ran into an old bug, so I decided to install 1.1a4 (which I should have just done from the start). When Outlook restarts, the SpamBayes Outlook COM object is disabled, and just re-enabling it does not work. So, I have to Add it back in. Once I do that, it then crashes Outlook with the following. I can't get any more crash information since the "more information" can't be cut-and-pasted and I can't find any info stored in a file. AppName: outlook.exe AppVer: 11.0.8217.0 AppStamp:480f95d9 ModName: unknown ModVer: 0.0.0.0 ModStamp:00000000 fDebug: 0 Offset: 119cf550 The SPAMBAYES1.LOG contains only: Registered: SpamBayes.OutlookAddin Registration complete. I have tried a number of times to uninstall it (and even hunted down and deleted all references to "SpamBayes" in filenames and the Registry), but I still get the same crash. I feel that I'm not completely cleaning up since the SpamBayes Outlook COM object is always disabled after I uninstall and then reinstall it. Does anyone have any assistance to offer? I've tried everything that I can think of. (By the way, I have been using SpamBayes for about 5 years on my old machine and I love it. I had even saved my 50,000 or so spam messages for the inevitable retraining.)

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Spam Bayes doesn't work with OL 2010
by Dian Chapman Jan. 28, 2010

Jan. 28, 2010

Just attempted to install ver 1.0.4 to my new system running MS Office 2010 Technical Preview and thought you'd want to know that it cause OL to stop running. On a second attempt, OL did notify me that Spam Bayes was incompatible with the "Data Execution Prevention mode" (???) and that I should choose to disable Spam Bayes. I did and it works. Had to uninstall SB. Gonna miss it cos' it works much better than just the MS OL junk filter.<sniff, sniff> Dian D. Chapman Technical Consultant & Microsoft MVP, MOS Certified Instructor, Editor/TechTrax Ezine, Technical Editor/Word & Office 2007 Bibles https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Dian.Chapman Dian's Soldiers' Site http://www.mousetrax.com/Angels Free Word Tricks eBook: http://www.mousetrax.com/books.html Learn VBA the easy way: http://www.mousetrax.com/techcourses.html Free Computer Tutorials: http://www.techtrax.us

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Training & Testing
by Anthony.Green＠uea.ac.uk Jan. 27, 2010

Jan. 27, 2010

Just a quick question about training and testing with SpamBayes. Can the 'sb_filter.py' file be used to perform training? Can the same file be used for testing, i.e. by modifying headers of outputting results of a message that it classifies? Also 'incremental.py' looks useful but how would it be used at the command line? Thanks, Anthony Green

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Spambayes on Office 2007
by Durwin Jan. 22, 2010

Jan. 22, 2010

I tried to install Spambayes on Office Outlook 2007. It scanned fine and seemed to start up, but did not run - it just hung and the toolbar was unresponsive. It sure would be nice to get a version of Spambayes that works on Outlook 2007. Thanks, Durwin Sharp

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ThunderBayes continued for Thunderbird 3.x : ThunderBayes++
by mr.dovi＠gmail.com Jan. 21, 2010

Jan. 21, 2010

Hello, If you are looking for a working ThunderBayes under TB3.x I have created a new mod called ThunderBayes++ It has all the past features with bugfixes the integrated spambayes is upgraded to r3256 the portable python upgraded to 2.6 with more libs to support ZODB MySQL safepickle an integrated MySQL server for windows with Linux support supports Linux you can now browse the SpamBayes web interface without external browser and a few more changes Special thanks to Skip and Mark because the changes since SpamBayes 1.0.4 are wonderful, keep it up guys! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/57801 -- |A. DOVI |Promo IM60 |ENI Ecole Informatique |Nantes (St-Herblain) |1st email: ad(a)heapoverflow.com [2nd email: mr.dovi(a)gmail.com |Si vous utilisez GPG (GNU Privacy Guard), |ma clef publique est attachée 0xDE1E2850.asc |If do you use GPG (GNU Privacy Guard), |my public key is attached 0xDE1E2850.asc

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Project
by Anthony.Green＠uea.ac.uk Jan. 18, 2010

Jan. 18, 2010

Hey guys, my name's Anthony Green and I'm a student at UEA, Norwich, UK. I'm currently doing a project on spam emails and am searching for filters to combine together as part of it, each of which I can train and then test on. SpamBayes looks great, but I need to know which commands to use to train it (but I can probably figure this one out from the documentation), but more importantly I need to be able to get results out at the end. Does SpamBayes have facilities to provide me with test results, either via a report after passing it some test emails, or modifying the test emails headers to provide me with a classification? If so, how do I use them? Sorry if I'm being too vague! I'm currently using the filter on Windows. Thanks for any help you can provide, Anthony Green

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(no subject)
by jjlm＠sympatico.ca Jan. 15, 2010

Jan. 15, 2010

If SpamBayes development project is still alive, I would suggest an option where it would be possible to send e-mails containing specific words in the title or the message body directly to the Deleted Items, without further analysis. For example, messages with VIAGRA in the title would be processed in that way. I am sick and tired of those e-mails ! I'm 43 and have no problems with... well, I'm sure you see... Many thanks for the product that I used daily in all my computers. Best regards, Luc Morin

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