[Spambayes] Problem with imap under linux.-part 7

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 06:13:20PM +1200, Tony Meyer wrote:
> > Well things improved but I am still making some cosmic mistake in
> > using sb_imapfilter.py. I will record what happened and will accept
> > advise but I think I need to rethink what I am doing.
> 
> I don't think that there's any mistake in using sb_imapfilter.py, just the
> problem of using a poorly configured IMAP server.
> 
> > Clicking: Configure folders to filter or  Configure folders to train
> > results now in the browser trying to retrieve something but 
> > it does not succeed.
> 
> I guess the browser is timing out.  With 4913 folders to choose from, the
> pages will be massively big.  If there's any way to can convince whoever
> runs your IMAP server to set it up properly (so that list returns only
> mailboxes, like it's meant to), then that would really help.  I'm surprised
> that your mail client doesn't struggle with presenting this many folders
> (unless it's searching only for a subset).
Here you can see how confused I really am, and why I need to read all
the documentation again to see what is happening. I am really the
system administrator who is managing our mail server. I share this job
with two others in some sense but really I am the one who is dealing
with the spambayes part of the operation. Tony, you are right that
when I use i.list(), as I should of, I get a long list of files. I
have not a clue at this time why those files were chosen. For example,
why '(\\NoInferiors \\UnMarked) "/" .vue/types/tools/DigitalClock',
'(\\NoInferiors \\UnMarked) "/" .profile' or  '(\\NoInferiors
\\UnMarked) "/" .bashrc' were returned? These are not mail files, nor
are they in my local user Mail directory.

I should probably indicate I am not usually so clueless. I have been a
Unix and Linux system administrator for almost 20 years. Now here is a
real confusion in my mind. And you have every right to say read the
documentation again. But you comment above seem to indicate that the
mail sever should be running IMAP as well as the client running
sb_imapfilter.py. You diagrams seem to indicate that sb_server.py and
sb_imapfilter.py are the only IMAP and POP3 servers you need. Do you
also need to have these servers running on the mail server. So are
these sb_* programs really pop3 and imap clients not servers?
Ok. I am confused but so is the other administrator that has been
working on this spambayes project with me. 
> 
> Alternatively, you could edit your configuration file and put the folder
> names in there manually.  It's only the web interface that ever needs a list
> of the available folders, so training/filtering wouldn't be effected by
> this.
> 

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