Backdrop: I've been using Spambayes for a couple of years, and have had it running successfully on many computers, both Windows and Linux. This message concerns installations on Linux boxes. In the past few months, I've been seeing a steady deterioration of Spambayes' performance, and it seemed like I was seeing messages in the Web Interface Review page that were being classified as spam, yet, in my mail reader, they were winding up in the Inbox or my unsure folder. Tonight, I decided to take the time and confirm that. Below are two headers from the same message, one is a cut/paste from my Kmail reader window, and the other is a cut/paste from my Spambayes Web Interface review page. There's several things that show it's the exact same message. Note the ESMTPid which are both k8S0Y57Q009225, and the X-Spambayes-MailId which are both 1159403792. YET, one is classified as spam and the other is classified as unsure. How could this be happenning? Sometime in the past year, someone incorporated code in Kmail that allows it to detect the presence of Spambayes on the machine in a wizard interface, and it configures a few filters for you if you choose to allow that. The filters are fairly innocuous, and seem to do what they're supposed to. But, I'm wondering if they're the problem. The filter merely examines the spambayes classification line in the header and sends spam to the trash bin, and unsure to a folder of your choosing, seems right to me. Then, it configures a couple of buttons that appear on the toolbar, and those are linked to manual filtering actions: "sb_filter.py -s" for the spam button and "sb_filter.py -g" for the not spam button. If the Spambayes proxy-server is processing the message, how could one version appear in my mail reader's viewing pane, and a different one appear in the web interface??? This is very strange. Thanking anyone, in advance, who has the time to look at this. Kmail viewing pane message header Return-Path: <4seasons@krankination.com> Received: from pam2.krankination.com ([72.11.149.121]) by jefferson.patriot.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3sarge1) with ESMTP id k8S0Y57Q009225 for <claude_jones@levitjames.com>; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:34:10 -0400 X-Mailer: Mcamp:int6-1.1-1110-Sq X-Filter_AZ: WTJ4aGRXUmxYMnB2Ym1WelFHeGxkbWwwYW1GdFpYTXVZMjl0Cg== X-Filter_BZ: TVRNekxraE5UbDgwYzJWaGMyOXVjM1I0ZERZeE15NUpVazlPVUU5U1ZESXROVEkzCg== X-Filter_CZ: UVZWSE1EWnZjQT09Cg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: 27 Sep 2006 20:33:44 -0400 Message-ID: <WTJ4aGRXUmxYMnB2Ym1WelFHeGxkbWwwYW1GdFpYTXVZMjl0Cg==@krankination.com> Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit From: International Wines <4seasons@krankination.com> To: claude_jones@levitjames.com Subject: 12 Bottles of Fine Wine and exclusive gift only 59.88 US dollars Status: R X-UID: 97982 Content-Length: 4062 X-Keywords: X-Spambayes-MailId: 1159403792 X-Spambayes-Classification: unsure; 0.29 X-Status: NC X-KMail-EncryptionState: X-KMail-SignatureState: X-KMail-MDN-Sent: Spambayes web interface view message interface header of same message: Return-Path: <4seasons@krankination.com> Received: from pam2.krankination.com ([72.11.149.121]) by jefferson.patriot.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3sarge1) with ESMTP id k8S0Y57Q009225 for <claude_jones@levitjames.com>; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:34:10 -0400 X-Mailer: Mcamp:int6-1.1-1110-Sq X-Filter_AZ: WTJ4aGRXUmxYMnB2Ym1WelFHeGxkbWwwYW1GdFpYTXVZMjl0Cg== X-Filter_BZ: TVRNekxraE5UbDgwYzJWaGMyOXVjM1I0ZERZeE15NUpVazlPVUU5U1ZESXROVEkzCg== X-Filter_CZ: UVZWSE1EWnZjQT09Cg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: 27 Sep 2006 20:33:44 -0400 Message-ID: <WTJ4aGRXUmxYMnB2Ym1WelFHeGxkbWwwYW1GdFpYTXVZMjl0Cg==@krankination.com> Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit From: International Wines <4seasons@krankination.com> To: claude_jones@levitjames.com Subject: 12 Bottles of Fine Wine and exclusive gift only 59.88 US dollars Status: O X-UID: 97982 Content-Length: 4062 X-Keywords: X-Spambayes-Classification: spam X-Spambayes-MailId: 1159403792 -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA