Hello! I'm completely new to SpamBayes, and I'm trying to figure out how I want to set it up for myself. Thanks to the list in advance. I'll probably be using an IMAP server and accessing my mail from two main places - work and home. My question is: how can I (and should I, even) share the training data between the two locations? Ideally I'd like to maintain just one database, since this will all be a single set of mail; otherwise I'd have to repeat the same training at home and at work. Several possibilities occur to me, and I'm curious to hear other users' suggestions on these: 1. Manually copy the database file(s) from one location to the other. There are several variations on this. I could just do the initial training in one location and copy to the other, then maintain each database separately thereafter, expecting the follow-on training to take much less work. Or I could copy the DB each time I did some training. Or, if there's some reliable way to merge the two slightly different DBs, I could periodically do that. 2. Maintain the database file(s) on a server somewhere. This is really more what I want, but it's harder to arrange. The best thing, obviously, would be to run SpamBayes on the server, but I'm expecting that, for reliability and simplicity, I'll probably be using a shared commercial server where I can't install SpamBayes. But even if I'm running SpamBayes on the client, I could maintain a single DB in some online location. I could stick it on an FTP or rsync server, and have a script (or maybe even write a SpamBayes extension) that downloads it when I begin using SpamBayes and uploads it when I'm done. I could store the DB at work and map a Windows network drive to point at my work machine through my VPN, and configure SpamBayes at home to use the DB on the network drive - but my VPN isn't completely reliable, so that could be a hassle. Or perhaps there are distributed-DB features built into some of the storage options that SpamBayes can use? 3. Carry a little USB drive around with me, and keep the DB on that. (Does the DB get too big for this to be practical?) 4. Super Crazy Ninja Trick?: enhance the SpamBayes IMAP proxy with the ability to maintain a DB in a folder on the IMAP server, download it before beginning filtering, and upload it whenever it is modified. If this seems productive, and the feature doesn't yet exist, I'd be happy to add it if I can find the time. Surely others have run into the same DB-replication question. Is there any conventional wisdom on this yet? I didn't find anything obviously related in the wiki, the FAQ, or the mail archives. I realize the question probably does come down to a simple issue of "how do I share a file between multiple sites?", which isn't particular to SpamBayes, but maybe SpamBayes users are a good crowd to ask such a question of. Any help is much appreciated! Best, Deneb Meketa, San Francisco.