Mailman 3 October 2010 - SpamBayes

SpamBayes got an Editors' Choice award !
by Vera Zubor - DownloadAtlas.com Oct. 30, 2010

Oct. 30, 2010

Hello SpamBayes, we would like to remind you and announce an Editor's Choice award to SpamBayes Current method of awarding is chosen by us to reflect the high quality of your software product. More informations at http://www.downloadatlas.com/open-source-ba51b01f.html#awards Important Note: If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us. Best wishes, Vera Zubor - webmaster e-mail: editor(a)downloadatlas.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the addressee(s). Any publication, transmission or other use of the information by a person or entity other than the intended addressee is prohibited. If you receive this in error please contact the sender and delete the material. The sender does not accept liability for any errors or omissions as a result of the transmission. To unsubscribe or change options please login to your account using email address http://user.downloadatlas.com/?account=spambayes@python.org

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Training via web interface in 1.1a6 doesn't work?
by Carl Colijn Oct. 14, 2010

Oct. 14, 2010

Hi all, I've used the ThunderBayes ThunderBird plugin with SpamBayes 1.0.4 in the past, and made a copy of every mail I trained the filter with in a Training-Spam and Training-Ham folder. This allowed me to get the training back to where I left off after a re-install or database corruption. I just had to go to the SpamBayes web interface, select a Thunderbird training folder file and press the "train as xxx" button. The original ThunderBayes extension doesn't work anymore with ThunderBird 3.x, so I decided to use a plain SpamBayes installation after installing ThunderBird 3.x (can't live without SpamBayes anymore ;) ). I set up SpamBayes 1.1a6 seperately and connected ThunderBird to it. When I then started to let SpamBayes train on my training folders it didn't work. No errors in the web interface, training seemed to go OK (uploaded ok, Training... Saving... Done!) but the statistics on the main page ("Total emails trained") didn't reflect the newly trained mails (neither ham nor spam). Searching a bit more I found the original ThunderBayes plugin (now abandoned) had been continued as a ThunderBayes++ plugin - and it even includes the latest SpamBayes version as well in stead of the ancient 1.0.4 :) So I've now set everything up again using the ThunderBayes plugin (after first uninstalling the separate SpamBayes version), and started training again hoping this would have fixed it. But it didn't: I'm still stuck with the same situation - training seems to go OK but the trained-on mails don't arrive in the database. Does anyone have an idea what could be going wrong? I assume it's some silly configuration issue, but I've already tweaked it for quite a few hours now and can't get it right. I've attached a clean config file set after training on 1 ham message for anyone willing to give it a go as well. Some observations: - I run Windows XP SP3 en-us with the SpamBayes 1.1a6 version shipped with ThunderBayes++ - databases are of the pickle version - My training databases contain +- 250 ham, +- 6000 spam - When I start clean (close ThunderBird/SpamBayes, delete the cache & training databases) it re-creates them OK when restarted again - After a restart it claims there are 0 trained messages (of course) - When I upload the Thunderbird ham training folder file it seems to process it correctly but after it's done the counter still remains at "0 trained messages" - hamme.db doesn't grow either (56 bytes after a clean database recreation, still 56 bytes after training) - There's no error in the log - I've enabled caching messages (ThunderBayes by default has it off I think), and the uploaded messages do get extracted as separate messages in the cache - messageinfo.db indeed also grows - "Review messages" sometimes shows the uploaded messages, but not consistently - they did appear a few times after I tweaked and restarted and such - Copy/pasting a separate mail with headers and training on that has the same effect - When I let it train on my Spam folder (with 6000+ mails in it) it is seriously busy - CPU at 100% for more than 10 minutes - so it must think it's doing something - Consecutively letting it train on the small Ham folder (250 messages) now takes far more time - the 6000+ spam messages it processed earlier must have influenced something - When I look at the "More statistics" page it the uploaded messages _do_ get reflected in the "Unsures trained as good" and "Unsures trained as spam" statistics - Training via the ThunderBayes buttons in ThunderBird _do_ raise the "trained on" counters - what does it do that I cannot do? - There are no SMTP proxy details info specified in the settings - I assume ThunderBayes++ passes the ham/spam training via the web interface as well? - Starting from scratch again (delete db's, clear email cache) and selecting "bsddb"as db type didn't change a thing Here's the spambayes.ini file I use: [Headers] include_score:True notate_subject: [Storage] persistent_use_database:pickle persistent_storage_file:databases/hammie.db cache_expiry_days:2 cache_messages:True no_cache_bulk_ham:False messageinfo_storage_file:databases/messageinfo.db ham_cache:cache/ham spam_cache:cache/spam unknown_cache:cache/unsure [html_ui] default_spam_action:defer display_score:True [pop3proxy] use_ssl:automatic listen_ports:53100,53101,53102 remote_servers:xxx.xxx.com:110,xxx.xxx.com:995,xxx.xxx.nl:110 -- Kind regards, Carl Colijn TwoLogs - IT Services and Product Development A natural choice! http://www.twologs.com TimeTraces: the powerful and versatile time registration system! http://timetraces.twologs.com

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Doe IT WORK?
by John Kennedy Oct. 12, 2010

Oct. 12, 2010

Dose Spambayes work on WIN 7 64 bit and Outlook 2010?

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Outlook 2007 problem
by Christopher D. Black Oct. 8, 2010

Oct. 8, 2010

After using SpamBayes for years, I've installed Outlook 2007 on my Dell Latitude D820 and I've consistently had problems getting SpamBayes to work. I can install with apparent success, and I can display the SpamBayes toolbar, but the buttons on the toolbar are simply dead. They light up when I mouse over them, but clicking them has absolutely no effect. Have you any feedback from other users on this problem? Chris

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