[Spambayes] Training via IMAP Filter

[Abhay Saxena]

Congratulations on all your great work so far. I'm in the "long time 
listener, first time caller" category, so to speak (Tim Peters: I'm the 
guy who shook your hands -- yes, both of them -- at the recent PyCon).

I have a pretty basic email setup: UW IMAP running on FreeBSD 4.7 or 
so. I decided to follow David Abrahams' guide, since his setup is not 
that different from mine. I was able to set up hammiefilter.py using 
procmail very easily, but training using imapfilter.py has turned out 
to be a little more difficult. Let me ask some (hopefully) easy 
questions now. I can get into the details of the trouble I'm having 
later, if it turns out to be necessary.

1. Has anyone tested imapfilter.py with UW IMAP 
(http://www.washington.edu/imap/)? I've included a snippet of server 
output below.

2. Have there been any (important) changes to imaplib since 2.2.2? Some 
stuff that I expected to work didn't work; I'm not sure if that's due 
to a bug or due to changes in imaplib. I'll elaborate if it becomes an 
issue.

3. Why would imapfilter.py try to modify the contents of my IMAP 
folders if all I'm asking for is training? In particular, when I run 
training, it starts with my inbox and immediately chokes on an 
imap.append(...). I find that a duplicate of the first message has 
appeared in my inbox.

To clarify: I'm not trying to figure out why it chokes; obviously I 
haven't provided you enough information. I simply would like to know 
why imapfilter.py is doing an imap.append(...) for what seems to me to 
be a read-only operation.

Thanks for your help.

   - Abhay


* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 LOGIN-REFERRALS STARTTLS AUTH=LOGIN] 
localhost IMAP4rev1 2002.332 at Tue, 13 May 2003 14:43:48 -0400 (EDT)

Python 2.2.2 (#1, Jan 15 2003, 03:26:24)
[GCC 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]] on freebsd4