[Spambayes] Outlook-plug-in: Spambayes fails to initialize

[Kenny Pitt]

I VB Coder wrote:
> It looks like the only thing left in that file are the settings
> suggested for experimentation.  I have included them below.  Keep in
> mind that this happened a while after I made these changes, as in
> they worked for a while.   
> 
> [Tokenizer]
> x-search_for_habeas_headers:True
> x-reduce_habeas_headers:True
> x-pick_apart_urls:True
> x-fancy_url_recognition:True
> 
> [Classifier]
> x-use_bigrams:True
> 
> [URLRetriever]
> x-slurp_urls:True
> x-cache_expiry_days:True
> x-cache_directory:True
> x-only_slurp_base:True
> x-web_prefix:True
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> I found this file that looks pertinent.
> [...]
>>   File "spambayes\classifier.pyc", line 73, in ?
>>   File "spambayes\Options.pyc", line 1259, in ? [...]
>>   File "locale.pyc", line 175, in atof
>> ValueError: invalid literal for int(): True

This traceback indicates a failure in locale.atof, which is only called for
options that are defined as floating point values.  None of the values shown
here are floating point.  The changes that Tony suggests in another message
are important and may indeed fix the problem, but I suspect it might be
something else.

In the same directory as the default_bayes_customize.ini file, you should
find another .ini file that has the name of your Outlook profile.  This will
typically be something like "Outlook.ini" or "yourname.ini".  Common
floating point values that might be found in that file are "spam_threshold",
"unsure_threshold", "timer_start_delay", and "timer_interval".  You might
want to look for any of these settings and make sure that they contain valid
floating point numbers.

Since atof is a locale-specific function, it would also be useful to know
what your default Windows locale/language is.  Is this an English system, or
some other language?  A typical difference between locales is to use a comma
instead of a period as the decimal separator, which could cause problems in
parsing the values.

-- 
Kenny Pitt