[Spambayes] Norton AntiSpam with SpamBayse?

[Tom Peters]

I have no problems running NAV and Spambayes together, but I used to. Some
poeple have said that the following steps are not necessary, but I have
found in two cases that they are absolutely required in the configurations
I tried, your milage may vary.

I configured my mail program (Eudora Pro in one case, Outlook Express in
the other) to use ports 3110 and 3025 instead of the more usual 110 and
25. For Outlook Experss, I told it to talk to localhost:3110 instead of
(in my example) mail.athenet.net:110 which is the name (and port) of my
mail server. I set up spambayes to expect the mail client on those ports,
ie 3110 and 3025.

Nothing's magic about those ports, you could use, say, 8110 and 8025 if
you like. Something above 1024 is the only real requirement; something
about 2000 is likely to avoid conflict with other apps. Such a conflict
isn't all that likely anyhow.

Now you tell spambayes to talk to your ISP on ports 110 and 25. It must
already be set up that way if it's currently working properly.

> I also have loaded a copy of Norton antispam, though I have not yet turned
> it on.  I am under the impression that the Norton product examines the
> incoming email before it reaches the inbox and removes what it thinks is
> spam first.
>
> If my assumption is correct, does that mean that I could run the Norton
> product simultaneously with spambayse and still have spambayse work
> properly?  It is already well trained.