[Spambayes] Which Servers are needed by SpamBayes?

[Meyer, Tony]

> I have just installed the Outlook2000-Plugin 0.7 on a Windows 
> XP  SP1 system that is protected by a software firewall. I 
> would like to use the "Chek for Update"-Function.
> 
> For that I have to change the settings of the firewall, in 
> order to enable Outlook to contact the update information server.
> 
> However, as SpamBayes is trying contact a different server 
> every time, I can't.

SpamBayes should only be connecting to one page:
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/download/Version.cfg.  How sf manages
connections I don't know, but you should be able to allow connections to
that single address and it should work.

Note that if you tell it to, spambayes will try and authenticate itself
to a proxy.  You can set the options like this:
[globals]
proxy_server: myproxy.example.com:8880
proxy_username: foo
proxy_password: bar

Of course, this means having your password in plain text in your config
file, so you might not like that (although you could set up a user&pass
just for spambayes and allow access to that one page).  Just FYI, in
case it is of use.

=Tony Meyer