[spambayes-dev] improving dumbdbm's survival chances...

[G. Armour Van Horn]

Skip Montanaro wrote:

>     Van> Hey, I'm nowhere near "Tim's sister" capability, but I still want
>     Van> to just download the zip, extract it, and run the proxy. If dumbdbm
>     Van> is a dumb way to go, it shouldn't be the default.
>
> It's not the default.  It's currently the database of last resort.  If you
> get dumbdbm it's because you don't have a working PyBSDDB (aka bsddb3) or
> gdbm module and supporting library available.  Many Unix-flavored machines
> have one or the other available out of the box.  Alas, the current
> heavyweight champion of the world (Windows) doesn't come with anything
> useful by default, so many people installing the Outlook plugin have been
> getting the dumbdbm database module.

Embarrassing as it may be, my clients are Windows and Macs, although Linux and
BSD machines are the majority here in our house. I wouldn't use Outlook on a
dare, so that means running the POP3 proxy. The smoothest install I could come
up with was to install Active State's Python and then the alpha 4 ZIP. If I
should have installed some other Python, how would I have known that? More
importantly, how would the next schmuck know that?

As I recall, the only requirement for running SpamBayes is Python of at least
version 2.2. So, starting from where I am now, what's the best way to get to a
better system?

Van

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