Mailman 3 April 2013 - SpamBayes

Bug in Outlook 2010 for SpamBayes Addin
by PHYSIO-TECH GmbH - J. Swatek Oct. 28, 2013

Oct. 28, 2013

Gentlemen, When starting Outlook 2010 the following error occurs: "There was an error initializing the SpamBayes addin. Please re-start Outlook and try again". After that SpamBayes stops working. De-installation and re-installation does not seem to work. Please advise. Best regards, Jürgen Swatek

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sb_filter.py eats mail when used in postfix content_filter
by EMF May 2, 2013

May 2, 2013

OS: CentOS 6.4 x86_64 Postfix package: postfix-2.6.6-2.2.el6_1.x86_64 Spambayes package: spambayes-1.1-0.2.a6.el6.noarch All right, I've hit a brick wall with my integration of spambayes and postfix. I based my build combining Jonathan St. Andre's instructions at http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/server_side.html, with a few tweaks from the Postfix side in http://www.postfix.org/FILTER_README.html --- mostly because I'm going to extend the logic. I've successfully trained spambayes with about 12,000 each spam and ham, creating a database in /var/spambayes/filter.db. Running a captured message through sb_filter.py from the command line works flawlessly: ----------------------------------------- $ whoami filter $ cat /tmp/msg.7440 | /usr/bin/sb_filter.py -d /var/spambayes/filter.db -f Return-Path: <emf(a)amhran.net> Received: from amhran.net (3wg23q1.amhran.net [192.168.1.160]) by courier.amhran.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFF223E for <emf(a)amhran.net>; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:28:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "EMF" <emf(a)amhran.net> To: "EMF" <emf(a)amhran.net> Subject: Testing X-Spambayes-Classification: ham; 0.17 SB Test $ ----------------------------------------- Here are the lines from postfix's master.cf (which are very straightforward): ----------------------------------------- smtp inet n - n - - smtpd -o content_filter=filter:dummy filter unix - n n - - pipe flags=Rq user=filter argv=/usr/local/bin/spamfilter.sh -f ${sender} -- ${recipient} ----------------------------------------- Spamfilter.sh sends the mail just fine if it consists of this: ----------------------------------------- cat > /tmp/msg.$$ /usr/sbin/sendmail -i $@ < /tmp/msg.$$ ----------------------------------------- but not if it contains this: ----------------------------------------- cat > /tmp/msg.$$ cat /tmp/msg.$$ | /usr/bin/sb_filter.py -d /var/spambayes/filter.db -f > /tmp/new.$$ /usr/sbin/sendmail -i $@ < /tmp/new.$$ ----------------------------------------- In the latter case --- msg.$$ contains the message, but new.$$ is a zero-length file, and thus what comes through on the far end is an empty message. Interestingly, I get this in syslog.log: ----------------------------------------- Apr 24 21:28:35 courier abrt: detected unhandled Python exception in '/usr/bin/sb_filter.py' Apr 24 21:28:35 courier abrt: can't communicate with ABRT daemon, is it running? [Errno 13] Permission denied ----------------------------------------- How can I capture the exception? What's being called by sb_filter.py at the command line that isn't available when run inside the content_filter?

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Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science
by eliswilson＠hushmail.com May 1, 2013

May 1, 2013

Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science We are researchers from different parts of the world and conducted a study on the world’s biggest bogus computer science conference WORLDCOMP http://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1 organized by Prof. Hamid Arabnia from University of Georgia, USA. We submitted a fake paper to WORLDCOMP 2011 and again (the same paper with a modified title) to WORLDCOMP 2012. This paper had numerous fundamental mistakes. Sample statements from that paper include: (1). Binary logic is fuzzy logic and vice versa (2). Pascal developed fuzzy logic (3). Object oriented languages do not exhibit any polymorphism or inheritance (4). TCP and IP are synonyms and are part of OSI model (5). Distributed systems deal with only one computer (6). Laptop is an example for a super computer (7). Operating system is an example for computer hardware Also, our paper did not express any conceptual meaning. However, it was accepted both the times without any modifications (and without any reviews) and we were invited to submit the final paper and a payment of $500+ fee to present the paper. We decided to use the fee for better purposes than making Prof. Hamid Arabnia richer. After that, we received few reminders from WORLDCOMP to pay the fee but we never responded. This fake paper is different from the two fake papers already published (see https://sites.google.com/site/worlddump4 for details) in WORLDCOMP. We MUST say that you should look at the above website if you have any thoughts of participating in WORLDCOMP. DBLP and other indexing agencies have stopped indexing WORLDCOMP’s proceedings since 2011 due to its fakeness. See http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icai/index.html for of one of the conferences of WORLDCOMP and notice that there is no listing after 2010. See Section 2 of http://sites.google.com/site/dumpconf for comments from well-known researchers about WORLDCOMP. The status of your WORLDCOMP papers can be changed from scientific to other (i.e., junk or non-technical) at any time. Better not to have a paper than having it in WORLDCOMP and spoil the resume and peace of mind forever! Our study revealed that WORLDCOMP is money making business, using University of Georgia mask, for Prof. Hamid Arabnia. He is throwing out a small chunk of that money (around 20 dollars per paper published in WORLDCOMP’s proceedings) to his puppet (Mr. Ashu Solo or A.M.G. Solo) who publicizes WORLDCOMP and also defends it at various forums, using fake/anonymous names. The puppet uses fake names and defames other conferences to divert traffic to WORLDCOMP. He also makes anonymous phone calls and threatens the critiques of WORLDCOMP (See Item 7 of Section 5 of above website). That is, the puppet does all his best to get a maximum number of papers published at WORLDCOMP to get more money into his (and Prof. Hamid Arabnia’s) pockets. Prof. Hamid Arabnia makes a lot of tricks. For example, he appeared in a newspaper to fool the public, claiming him a victim of cyber-attack (see Item 8 in Section 5 of above website). Monte Carlo Resort (the venue of WORLDCOMP for more than 10 years, until 2012) has refused to provide the venue for WORLDCOMP’13 because of the fears of their image being tarnished due to WORLDCOMP’s fraudulent activities. That is why WORLDCOMP’13 is taking place at a different resort. WORLDCOMP will not be held after 2013. The draft paper submission deadline is over but still there are no committee members, no reviewers, and there is no conference Chairman. The only contact details available on WORLDCOMP’s website is just an email address! We ask Prof. Hamid Arabnia to publish all reviews for all the papers (after blocking identifiable details) since 2000 conference. Reveal the names and affiliations of all the reviewers (for each year) and how many papers each reviewer had reviewed on average. We also ask him to look at the Open Challenge (Section 6) at https://sites.google.com/site/moneycomp1 and respond if he has any professional values. Sorry for posting to multiple lists. Spreading the word is the only way to stop this bogus conference. Please forward this message to other mailing lists and people. We are shocked with Prof. Hamid Arabnia and his puppet’s activities at http://worldcomp-fake-bogus.blogspot.com Search Google using the keyword worldcomp fake for additional links.

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Re: [Spambayes] Error Message after installation (Jiri Tucek)
by Craig T. Manske April 30, 2013

April 30, 2013

I've been fighting with this issue and Outlook 2010 for a while now. The solution was quite easy for me. 1. Uninstall Spambayes from Programs and Features. 2. Uninstall Office 2010 x64. 3. Go to Microsoft's "How to uninstall or remove Microsoft Office 2010 suites" (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301) and use "Remove Microsoft Office 2010 suites manually" to remove any remnants. 4. Install the 32bit version of Office 2010 5. Install Spambayes 1.1a6. 6. Open Outlook and look at the add-ins tab. Spambayes should be there. 7. If you don't want to navigate to the add-ins tab every time you can add it to the Quick Access Toolbar. a. Click the little down arrow after the quick access toolbar in the upper left of the Outlook main window. b. Click "More Commands" c. Select "All Commands" in the "Choose commands from" combo box. d. Scross until you find "Custom Toolbars" and select it. e. Click "Add >>" f. Click "ok" Now you should have an icon in the quick access toolbar that looks like three little white rectangles stacked on top of each other. Click it and you'll see your Spambayes options. It's about the best we get with Office 2010 until the developers get time to do some programming again. -Craig Manske  Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:05:58 +0200 From: "Jiri Tucek" <jiri_tucek(a)freenet.de> To: <spambayes(a)python.org> Subject: [Spambayes] Error Message after installation Message-ID: <C436DC626FDA4FBA98FD07A3441DEFB3@villattu321> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello, I am using ACER Notebook with Windows Vista operating system. Toolbar did not work (even I unblocked it), so I deinstalled the SpamByes, downloaded Version 1.1a6.exe and installed it. After start of Outlook 7 i get the message: "There was an Error initialising the SpamByes addin. Please restart Outlook and try again " I tried many times but still the some message shows. What can I do? I am looking forward to your answer. Regards Jiri Tucek -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/spambayes/attachments/20130426/6c147c70/at…> ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ SpamBayes(a)python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html ------------------------------ End of SpamBayes Digest, Vol 176, Issue 6 *****************************************

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Error Message after installation
by Jiri Tucek April 26, 2013

April 26, 2013

Hello, I am using ACER Notebook with Windows Vista operating system. Toolbar did not work (even I unblocked it), so I deinstalled the SpamByes, downloaded Version 1.1a6.exe and installed it. After start of Outlook 7 i get the message: "There was an Error initialising the SpamByes addin. Please restart Outlook and try again " I tried many times but still the some message shows. What can I do? I am looking forward to your answer. Regards Jiri Tucek

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software question
by GA Miller Architecture PC April 16, 2013

April 16, 2013

Hello, I am using Windows 7 Pro OS and Outlook 2003. I did not see a download for this combination. Please advise. Thank you, Glen Miller

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Issue
by Dutch Green April 9, 2013

April 9, 2013

I've been using Spambayes 1.1a6 for several years on my Windows 7, 64-bit desktop using Outlook 2007. I've notice lately that e-mails that I send with my own address in to 'To:' field (I do this when I have a list of recipients in the BCC field) are always being put in the 'Junk Suspects' folder rather than going directly to my Inbox. This hasn't been a problems for years until the last few of months. Are you aware of this problem and do you have any suggestions for me to try. Most all other e-mails go directly to my Inbox unless they are spam and Spambayes does a very good job of routing spam to the Junk E-mail or Junk Suspect folders. Thanks...

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Re: [Spambayes] Spam button doesn't move item
by Martinez, Alberto Z April 9, 2013

April 9, 2013

Please ignore, I appear to have located similar "Open" issues now, I will see if I can learn from those before bugging you. Sorry. From: Martinez, Alberto Z Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 10:36 AM To: 'spambayes(a)python.org' Subject: Spam button doesn't move item I checked online and didn't see this issue listed. My environment: * I am on Windows 7, using 32 bit version of Office 2010 (running in Program Files(x86)). My issue: * Note: The entire thing works, it even has access to my files, since it is moving things into the Spam folder. And when I select "Empty Spam Folder", that works too. * But when I select an email and click the "Spam" button in my Add-ins Ribbon, nothing appears to happen. I recall that on my XP machine that would move the item into my Spam folder and "learn". Does it now just learn, but not move it? Or is it not working? Thank you for your time, and for developing an amazing and simple solution to spam. ............................................................................ For further important information about AllianceBernstein please click here http://www.alliancebernstein.com/disclaimer/email/disclaimer.html

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Spam button doesn't move item
by Martinez, Alberto Z April 9, 2013

April 9, 2013

I checked online and didn't see this issue listed. My environment: * I am on Windows 7, using 32 bit version of Office 2010 (running in Program Files(x86)). My issue: * Note: The entire thing works, it even has access to my files, since it is moving things into the Spam folder. And when I select "Empty Spam Folder", that works too. * But when I select an email and click the "Spam" button in my Add-ins Ribbon, nothing appears to happen. I recall that on my XP machine that would move the item into my Spam folder and "learn". Does it now just learn, but not move it? Or is it not working? Thank you for your time, and for developing an amazing and simple solution to spam. ............................................................................ For further important information about AllianceBernstein please click here http://www.alliancebernstein.com/disclaimer/email/disclaimer.html

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64-bit Outlook issue unsolved
by Ed Hart April 1, 2013

April 1, 2013

Gregor, when you find a suitable alternative to SpamBayes for your company for 64-bit Outlook, can you share it with us? I haven't found anything yet that I like as much as SpamBayes, but I'm hoping there's something out there that I'm missing. Thanks! Edward D. Hart Senior RF Engineer Sting Communications Tel: (717) 769-1340 ------------------------------ Message: 1 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:20:56 +0100 From: "Gregor" <gregor(a)gregor.net.nz> To: <spambayes(a)python.org> Subject: [Spambayes] Is this project abandoned? Message-ID: <!&!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAJ1KIAhR++FAgN0EhkGCUeAigQAAEAAAAAMC9vfRA0lHqJcN 4KiNLf4BAAAAAA==(a)gregor.net.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello, as I can see there is still 64-bit Outlook 2013 issue unsolved. :( I'm forced to assume this projest has been abandoned and look for another anti-spam solution for my company. :( Pity, as Spam-Bayes had very good scores amongst our users, also it required practically no maintenance. :( Regards Gregor

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