[Spambayes] Spambaye and Incredi-Mail

[Skip Montanaro]

(Please include spambayes at python.org on all responses so you get the benefit
of multiple brains.)

    Mike> I was able to get Spambaye downloaded and installed on the
    Mike> computer but configuring it is another thing altogether.  I am not
    Mike> that familiar with ports and such so I have it installed but not
    Mike> working.  Any help in this area would be most appreciated.

A port on a computer is like a door on a house.  Different services listen
at different ports for connections (much as our grandparents might have
expected the mailman to come to the front door and the rag man to come to
the back door).  In the case of mail fetched using POP3, the port is
generally 110.  Configure Spambayes to connect to your real mail server on
port 110.  On the configuration page <http://localhost:8880/config> enter
your mail server's name in the "Remote Servers" slot and enter 110 in the
"SpamBayes Ports" slot.  In turn, configure IncrediMail to connect to your
computer ("localhost") on port 110.  You can probably just replace your real
mail server's name with "localhost".

    Mike> The Outlook Add-In is so easy to install and setup, I got that one
    Mike> in not time at all but this version is a lot more involved.

That's to be expected.  There is tight integration between Outlook and the
Outlook plugin.  Outlook also takes care of all external connections, so you
don't have to configure that aspect of things.  It's impossible to get that
tight an integration with a general-purpose POP3 proxy and an arbitrary mail
program.

Skip