[Spambayes] No Defined Boundary

[Tony Meyer]

[Tony]
> Perhaps you could treat any mail with a "X-SpamBayes-Exception"
> header as unsure?  (ham is much less likely to be malformed, IMO).

[RBB]
> Thank you for the suggestion, Tony, but I'm not sure 
> how to do that in Netscape 4.79 Mail using the POP3 Proxy.  
> So far as I know, Netscape Mail doesn't give me the 
> capability of searching for, or sorting on, something in the 
> message header.

Sorry - I had forgotten that you were using that mailer.  I believe you're
right (it would work for people using Thunderbird, Eudora, or the like,
however).

> Unless the problem exacerbates, I'll try to be patient. 

If it does exacerbate (particularly if it's always the same
error/malformation), then do let us know - that is a case where it is worth
coding a way around it.  (e.g. there was one of these a few months back
where the Exception header would always have a "TypeError" in it, and
there's now code in SpamBayes to handle that specific problem).

> Technically correct, but unhandy, as you often want the 
> user to submit the logs to the list for someone to analyze.

I think a good solution would be then to make the "submit bug report"
feature easier to find, and also offer a "show current log file" function
(in the same place, possibly).  I'll try to remember to have a think about
this when I get a chance.

> Um, Tony, what "submit bug report" feature?  I'd be 
> happy to use that if I knew where to find it.

You can either go directly (if you know the magic word <wink>) to
<http://localhost:8880/bugreport>, or click the "Help" link at the bottom of
any page of the web interface, and then click the "create a help message"
for you link on that page.

This could certainly be simpler to find...

> And yes, if 
> that automatically attaches the log, then the log's location 
> makes absolutely no difference.

The only difference is that many times it's convenient to use your own
mailer to write to the list - replies are the best example.  I'm not sure
that /Documents and Settings/{username}/SpamBayes/Proxy/SpamBayes1.log is
any easier to work with than /Documents and Settings/{username}/Local
Settings/Temp/SpamBayes1.log, though <0.5 wink>.

> As always, thank you for the excellent help.

As always, you're most welcome :)

=Tony Meyer

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