[Spambayes] Lost email messages

[Jesse Pelton]

Your original message said that you had configured SpamBayes. I assumed
that you followed the directions at
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/faq.html#how-do-i-set-up-spambayes-and-
outlook-express. Is that true?

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From: Joseph Beranek [mailto:zulu6334 at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 2:32 PM
To: Jesse Pelton; spambayes at python.org
Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Lost email messages


I still cannot receive messages on my Comcast Outlook Express account.
However, I can receive them at Comcast's web mail.  Before I realized
what was happening, I would click on OE's Send/Receive button and the
message at the bottom of the screen would read, "Receiving Mail", then
read, for example,  "8 new messages" but they never show up in my inbox.
I called ComCast tech support twice and they have no idea what happened
either.  I can send messages from OE and sent messages show up in the
Sent Item box.  With the hope that the missing messages are stored
somewhere on my computer I've done global searches using both XP's
search function and Google Desktop for any leftover SpamBayes files, but
could find none.  So far, it looks like my only resort is to change my
Comcast email address.
 
Does anyone know where SpamBayes keeps incoming mail until it is cleared
by the recipient?  In order to retrieve my three days worth of missing
messages, would it do any good to reinstall the program, but this time
make sure I configure it properly.  
 
I do appreciate all the help.
 
Joe 






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	Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Lost email messages
	Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:50:42 -0500
	From: jsp at PKC.com
	To: zulu6334 at hotmail.com; spambayes at python.org
	
	
	Anyone else have any suggestions?
	 
	[Joe: please "Reply to All" so the discussion is recorded in the
mailing list archive for the benefit of anyone who has a similar problem
in the future.]

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	From: Joseph Beranek [mailto:zulu6334 at hotmail.com] 
	Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 4:37 PM
	To: Jesse Pelton
	Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Lost email messages
	
	
	Thanks, Jesse,
	 
	I looked at all three of these links and none of them seemed to
apply to my situation.
	 
	As mentioned, one of the problems is that I am not receiving any
incoming mail, even that I am sending to myself.  I remember reading
something in the SpamBaye's documentation to the effect incoming
messages are first "intercepted" (my word)  by SpamBayes until a
determination is made regarding whether they are Spam, Ham or something
else.  Obviously, I configured the program incorrectly and thus the
incoming messages are someplace between my inbox and whereever SpamBaye
places the "intercepted" messages.  
	 
	Thanks for your help,
	 
	Joe
	
	
	
	
	

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		Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Lost email messages
		Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:32:37 -0500
		From: jsp at PKC.com
		To: zulu6334 at hotmail.com; spambayes at python.org
		
		
		Maybe someone else has heard of or experienced this, but
I haven't, so I did a Google search for "spambayes outlook express
missing messages." I turned up several links with various approaches to
the problem. Perhaps they'll help:
		 
	
http://ask-leo.com/the_contents_of_my_inbox_disappeared_can_i_recover.ht
ml
	
http://www.pcanswers.co.uk/tips/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=36270
&subsectionid=616
		http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321505

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		From: spambayes-bounces at python.org
[mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Joe B
		Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 2:04 PM
		To: spambayes at python.org
		Subject: [Spambayes] Lost email messages
		
		
		Yesterday I installed the latest edition of Spambayes
and configured it.  This morning I had no incoming messages at all.
Worse, all the messages in my inbox (Outlook Express) dating from July
forward were missing.  I opened the four small icons that were in the
taskbar but they indicated that no messages had been received.  Thinking
that my missing messages would reappear, I uninstalled Spaybayes,
restarted the computer but the messages were still missing.  I also did
a system-wide search for Spambaye with no results.
		 
		I then sent messages to myself, but they never arrived.
Consequently, I called my ISP, Comcast, but they couldn't help me.
		 
		Can you tell me how I can receive incoming mail again,
and if possible, recover the hundreds of missing messages.
		 
		Since I can't receive any email from Outlook Express,
please send your reply to my alternate address, zulu6334 at hotmail.com
		 
		Thanks,
		 
		Joe Beranek
		Tucson, AZ
		 
		520.743.9940

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