[Spambayes] Spambayes with Terminal Services

[Coe, Bob]

Publish a .BAT file in some common directory. Then tell your users that anyone who wants Spambayes should copy that .BAT file into his startup directory. The .BAT file will copy the standard SB configuration into the user's profile, then delete itself. The user can then tell the SB Manager the names of his Spam and Spambiguous folders (or you can tell the user what the folders have to be called and you can preset the names in the configuration).

There are various other ways to do it, involving group policies, run-once directories, etc., etc. But this way is pretty simple and should work.

Bob

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: spambayes-bounces at python.org
> [mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of Tony Meyer
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 7:21 PM
> To: 'Alden Lavin'
> Cc: spambayes at python.org
> Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Spambayes with Terminal Services
> 
> 
> > Thank you for your quick response. I see the logic in what 
> > you're suggesting but I'm not sure it'll solve my problem 
> > altogether. The end goal is to only provide Spambayes to the 
> > people who request it.
> > 
> > If I manually setup the configuration file and copy it to 
> > each user's profile, each user will have Spambayes process 
> > their inbox. I really need to have the ability to apply it to 
> > certain users and exclude everyone else.
> 
> So only copy it to the users that want it.  You'd have to manually setup the
> configuration file for each user anyway, since their folder ids will all be
> different.  (If you're going to this bother, though, it would seem easier to
> me to just log in as that user and setup SpamBayes for them).
> 
> > I may be asking for the impossible, but if I can get it to 
> > work it'll save my company a bunch of money on spam filtering 
> > software and Spambayes is a very good product.
> 
> The thing is that *somehow* you have to configure the plug-in, otherwise it
> won't know what to do.  You can do this via the wizard or with the SpamBayes
> Manager dialog, or (if absolutely necessary) by hand editing a text file.
> One of those has got to be done if individuals are going to be set up.
> 
> > If you can think of anything else I'd really enjoy hearing
> > about it.
> 
> The only other thing I can think of is that you could use a modified version
> of the plug-in that creates a config file if one isn't there, selecting the
> default store's inbox as the watch folder, and creating and selecting unsure
> and spam folders.  It wouldn't be too difficult to modify the plug-in to do
> this (some code could be borrowed from the wizard).
> 
> However, if you install SpamBayes for all users, then this will activate
> SpamBayes for all users, too.  You'd have to only register the plug-in for
> those that wanted it.
> 
> =Tony.Meyer