Linda> My machine is on Windows 10. SpamBayes was working until I
upgraded to Outlook 2021. Is there a valid .dll for this version?
There is nothing yet. I think I have someone who can help build the
dll, but not test it. Would you (or anyone else reading this) be
willing to help test the result?
> Is spambayes still a valid app?
> Is it still maintained?
> Will it run under Windows 10 and 11?
It is nominally still a valid app. It's not really maintained at this
point. Based on the infrequent questions which appear on this list, it
would seem that most users run Windows of some flavor. I c
>
> I like so much spambayes.
>
>
>
> Is this project stilla live or not?
>
Kind of. Which SpamBayes application(s) do you use? There has been some
recent discussion on the spambayes-dev list about migrating the code to
Python 3, but that won't initially be everything.
Skip
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Thanks, I'll take a look.
Skip
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 5:15 PM Dale Schroeder
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> On 9/15/20 3:46 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
> Is there any chance someone will rewrite Spambayes to use python3? In
>> Debian, it's hanging on by a thread, as they move from python
>
> Is there any chance someone will rewrite Spambayes to use python3? In
> Debian, it's hanging on by a thread, as they move from python2 to python3.
>
I'll take a look, but I know nothing about packaging stuff for Debian. Can
you put me in touch with someone who can help in that regard? At a bar
>
> I just downloaded & installed spambayes to my 2016 Outlook, but it
> doesn't work. So I reinstalled it to my gmail. But I don't see anything at
> all. Please show me how to install and configure spambayes. Thank you.
>
If you're installing it to a recent version of Windows, you will probab
I am not a Windows person, but this topic has come up repeatedly. As I
recall, things to check are 32- vs 64-bit Outlook (might need 32-bit?) and
the installation directory (might not be able to use the default).
I am unable to update the Windows installer (again, see the above
disclaimer), and it
> My Spambytes tool bar is now missing “Not Spam” selection.
Cliff,
That's a pretty skimpy bug report. Can you tell us something about
your SpamBayes setup? Are you using the Windows-based installer? What
have you tried to remedy the problem? Did you reinstall SpamBayes,
reboot your system, start
> Daily getting 25-30 SPAM Emails without Unsubscribe option from
> i...@email.mailscart.com & i...@digi.mailscart.com (via a company named
> Shreem Digital)
...
> Several times I reported it to
> https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/
>
> Still I am getting lots of SPAM emai
> I just installed SB ( the latest version which is 1.0.4 ) The very last
> version it looks like.
>
> I cannot find a way to add SB to the quick bar in Outlook 2016.
>
> When I download my email, I am having to switch tabs at the top to ADD IN'S
> and that's where SB's controls are located
>
> Is
When you get continual mistakes for a particular address, my experience
suggests you accidentally marked an email from your friend as spam once
upon a time. The simplest approach might be to clear the decks
(figuratively speaking) and start training from scratch. Only train on
mistakes and unsures,
Not terribly active, though check my post from a day or two ago...
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/spambayes/2017-December/023548.html
Skip
On Dec 30, 2017 1:35 PM, "Arch Hughes" wrote:
> Hi. I’ve used your Spam Bayes filter in outlook for years. Have loved it
> on Office 2007 even after u
It seems I might have successfully built a Windows installer using the
Appveyor continuous integration platform (https://www.appveyor.com/).
I don't have direct access to Windows, however I was able to run the
installer without error using WINE, and start up the POP3 proxy. I
didn't go any farther.
It seems I might have successfully built a Windows installer using the
Appveyor continuous integration platform. I don't have direct access
to Windows, however I was able to run the installer without error
using WINE, and start up the POP3 proxy. I've not tried to go any
farther.
I'm looking for a
wrote:
> On 11/23/2017 1:21 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>>>
>>> Skip, thanks for the news. What would be the symptoms of that particular
>>> bug?
>>
>> The tokenizer was generating certain tokens which it assumed would be
>> dotted quads (e.g., 73
> Skip, thanks for the news. What would be the symptoms of that particular bug?
The tokenizer was generating certain tokens which it assumed would be
dotted quads (e.g., 73.73.103.110) but not checking that they actually
contained four elements. The result was an IndexError exception. This
error c
It's so long between releases that I am not sure how I should handle
version numbers, but I just uploaded spambayes-1.1b3.tar.gz to PyPI.
It fixes a single bug in the tokenizer uncovered a couple days ago as
Mark Sapiro and I were getting gate_news (the SpamBayes-wielding
Usenet-to-email gateway) g
Jack,
Try and following two changesL
* Make sure you are using 32-bit Outlook
* Install the plug-in in a non-default location. C:\SpamBayes seems common.
Let us know how if that helps.
Skip Montanaro
On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 8:20 PM, Jack Le Sueur
wrote:
> SpamBayes sounds like a g
I recommend you search using Google with
something like this:
site:mail.python.org/pipermail/spambayes install outlook plugin
That should hopefully lead you to some helpful hints, if not outright
solutions to your install problems.
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You'll have to dig through the archives and the website (
http://www.spambayes.org/) to see what people have done in the past to work
around restrictions of more modern versions of Windows.
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On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Dennis McDowell
wrote:
> Do you have a version of SpamBayes compati
0, Fred Smith wrote:
> later
> see below
> > On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 07:23:38AM -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> > >Fred,
> > >It looks like your training database is corrupt. At the very end of
> the
> > >long traceback, the message indicates
Fred,
It looks like your training database is corrupt. At the very end of the
long traceback, the message indicates that the count of messages (ham or
spam) in which a particular word appears is greater than the number of
messages in that particular category. I think you should be able to just
ret
I am not a Windows person, but I seem to recall others saying you have
to install it in a non-default location on Windows 10. Check the list
archives. You can search via Google easily enough:
site:mail.python.org spambayes install windows
Skip
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 8:28 AM, Jim wrote:
> I’m
Here are the instructions from the mail.python.org SpamBayes setup, as
well as the train.sh script which drives the process. You will almost
certainly need to modify the script somewhat and take the README with
a grain of salt, but hopefully not too much (and hopefully only a very
small grain).
Sk
> I'm having sudden second thoughts about how I should be dealing with
> mails that get qualified incorrectly and dropped into the wrong mailbox.
>
> I've operated for years on the understanding that if, e.g., a mail gets
> dropped in spam (or unsure) that SHOULD have been sent to my inbox,
> the f
> SpamBayes appears to use port 110, which corresponds to 'NEVER'.
It's been a long while since I used this, but the port should should be
configurable.
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> We run DoveCot on a Mac server running OS/X 10.11. A few months ago, the
> following emails were being generated on an hourly basis. To the best of our
> knowledge there was no precipitating event such as a software upgrade or a
> configuration update.
Sounds like an hourly cron job to me.
On Apr 16, 2016 2:08 PM, "Steve Gledhill"
wrote:
>
> Why has it been dropped?
>
> Is there a recomended replacement?
As free software, the notion of support is somewhat different than if you
bought commercial software. The actual code is available for you or anyone
else to modify.
As for why it'
On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 2:24 AM, Steve Gledhill
wrote:
> I now have a personal Windows 7 laptop. I looked at SpamBayes website but
> wasn't sure if it's still supported. Can you let me know current status of
> SpamBayes please?
It hasn't been supported for a long while. It will probably work as
w
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Dale Schroeder
wrote:
> This looks like the malformed html reference:
> href="http://[http://www.buneisme.science/unsQE1234UU101MJ/104M361HX808HL34B1914045OQ1123604291]";>Update
>preferences
Yeah, I can see where urlparse.urlparse might misinterpret that as
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Dale Schroeder
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> raise ValueError("Invalid IPv6 URL") .ValueError: Invalid IPv6 URL"
Dale,
Can you identify the IPv6 URL it seems to be complaining about?
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Joe Prax wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I’m excited to try your product, I’m getting about 300 spam messages a day,
> ugg.
>
>
>
> I have Win 2007 prof and Outlook 2007. I was not sure which version to
> download.
>
> Please let me know
> Thanks
>
> Joe Prax
Joe,
Assum
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Robert T. Roither
wrote:
> I get the following error messages when I click the save button on the
> configuration page (http://localhost:8880/config) :
>
> *...*
>
>
> *UnboundLocalError: local variable 'state' referenced before assignment*
> I'm running up to
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Robert T. Roither
wrote:
> 'Webroot Secure Anywhere' has identified the downloaded file
> "spambayes-1.1a6.exe as containing W32.Malware.Gen.
> Any truth to that rumor?
>
Highly unlikely, but you should open a ticket with the Webroot folks:
http://www.webroot.c
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:21 PM, wrote:
> Hello, I am trouble shooting an issue for the CEO of my company. There is
> an email domain that keeps getting flagged in the junk suspects folder. we
> keep clicking on “not junk” and it will release the email, but everytime
> they send again they ke
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Fred Smith
wrote:
> Once you train it on enough of them ...
I will also point out one potential issue which we used to see BITD.
Don't train SpamBayes on every single message, only on the ones that
aren't classified correctly. You wind up with a much smaller train
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:56 AM, dmccunney wrote:
> Are you using a 64 bit version of Outlook? If so, that's your
> problem. SpamBayes is a 32 bit plugin, and can't work in 64 bit
> Outlook. (I do not expect to see a 64 bit SpamBayes build.)
I asked again yesterday on python-l...@python.org (
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Karl Buhl wrote:
> Does anyone know how to keep SpamBayes from unloading in Outlook 2013?
Karl,
Has anything in your overall setup changed in the past month (new
version of Windows or Outlook, etc)? Did you reinstall SpamBayes
itself?
Skip (IANAWP)
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> Possible, yes. Easily is another matter. Spambayes installs as a a
> plugin in Outlook. To use it with a different client, it must be set
> up as a proxy server, sitting between your mail feed from your host
> and your email client.
I thought the installer allowed you to set up a proxy server
> File
> "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/spambayes-1.1a6-py2.7.egg/spambayes/dbmstorage.py",
> line 20, in open_dbhash
> return bsddb.hashopen(*args)
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'hashopen'
SpamBayes is unable to import any variant of the bsddb module. It
looks l
(Please leave spambayes@python.org on your replies. I have been on
vacation and only just noticed your reply. Other people on the
spambayes mailing list are more well-versed in the various
Windows/Outlook variants than I am, and can likely give you better
answers than me anyway.)
On Wed, Jul 24,
> We’re fighting with the spam and find your good program by our friends
> advise. However for 2 PC and 1 laptop all installed in order, and moreover
> catch all spam very well.
>
> But fourth PC strictly object to accept your program and showing one by one
> messages after starting Outlook (please
Also, Outlook != Outlook Express. If you've never set up SpamBayes
for Outlook Express, have a look at the SpamBayes FAQ for direction.
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On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Matt Johnson wrote:
> Skip I am referring to spambays.org, can you edit that site? I sent
> email to spambayes@python.org. I can't tell now if the site was
Yes, I can update the site. I don't recall seeing any submissions
from you. If you can point me to them o
> Skip, you put the repo on github, but did you also get ahold of the
> web site? I sent in some reports for the compatibility matrix, but I
> have not seen them show up there yet.
Sorry, I don't know what you mean by "get ahold of the web site".
Where did you send your compatibility reports? If
> as I can see there is still 64-bit Outlook 2013 issue unsolved. :(
>
> I'm forced to assume this projest has been abandoned and look for another
> anti-spam solution for my company. :(
Do you have the ability to move this issue forward? If so, you can
clone the project from GitHub:
https://git
with spambayes/TESTING.txt to learn how to test
your changes.
Finally, you will need fairly large collections of spam and ham
emails. The TESTING file should describe the requirements there.
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> Many of us are now using our smart phones for mail. Have you given any
> thought to end user versions that will work on android 4.1, io6 and Windows
> phone?
> Preference is for android.
I have not given it any thought. I moved the SpamBayes repository to
Git yesterday though:
https://github
spam. Before I actually stopped using it,
those providers did such a good job that it was pretty rare that the
software was even exercised. I suspect some of the other SpamBayes
developers may also be former SpamBayes users. Time marches on.
Skip Montanaro
> Can you please tell me who I can ask as to why I keep getting the following
> errors and Spambayes won't allow me to REVIEW MESSAGES (which is where you
> teach Spambayes what consider Spam vs. Acceptable messages)?
>
>
>
> This function used to work, but has not worked now for 6 months... and it
;
You have a corrupt database. Unfortunately, you can't run "database
recovery" because the necessary tools were never provided with the
binary version of the software from SleepyCat. You have no choice but
to delete your training database and start from scratch.
Skip Montanaro
If we can't find someone with the time and inclination to dig into problems
running SpamBayes in a Win7 64-bit+Outlook 2010 environment pretty soon, I
think it might be time to think about closing up shop. Other than the
occasional, "Help! I deleted my Junk Suspects folder!" questions, the bulk
o
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Luke Paris wrote:
> for many moons now I've been hoping for secure access to be implemented in
> SpamBayes. No other spam filter comes close (although, to tell you the
> truth, very little spam currently gets past my ISP, although I fear quite a
> lot of non-spam s
Kasper> Third: You seem to have the scale parameter format wrong, that's
Kasper> why the output is so bad.
Skip> The -2 I used was suggested by the ocrad author. I've tried a few
Skip> other scales. It's not obvious that one scale is much better than
Skip> another. Still, I s
(Best to keep the mailing list cc'd for such discussions. You'll get a lot
more brain power applied to your problem.)
Stephan> The only thing is, I've already trained it on a dozen of these
Stephan> messages. I think it's because it has too much other junk stuff
Stephan> that looks l
Stephan> I am getting a certain type of especially devious spam (see
Stephan> message below). The spam not only tricks outlook into
Stephan> displaying an advertising image automatically (without asking
Stephan> permission first), but it also evades SpamBeyes because it
Stepha
Lloyd> I am running Fedora 3 with Evolution and SpamBayes POP3 Proxy
Lloyd> Version 1.1a1 (April 2005).
Lloyd> I now get the BDRunRecoveryError error every few days.
This seems very unusual. Are you updating the database with any other
program than the POP3 proxy?
Skip
son reading
the message or automatically by software that's been configured to
automatically execute files of certain types. SpamBayes *never* executes
any of the messages it reads and analyzes.
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Seth> I have to tip my hat to the spammer who realized this opportunity
Seth> and I find it pretty amusing. Perhaps they even had a sense of
Seth> humor when they did it? I mean, they are _not_ going to make
Seth> sales to people who run Bayesian spa
I recall, OE has very limited header-based filter capability (subject,
recipient, maybe sender). Make sure you have the notate_subject option set
in your sb_server or sb_imapfilter setup.
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Bill> I had tried all these suggestions before sending email. I need to
Bill> know exactly what programs/software I need to install to make
Bill> SpamBaye work with Outlook Express.
In your reading of the FAQ did you perhaps miss question 2.1?
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/f
delete messages that
SpamBayes marks as spam (is that something OE filters can do?) I'm not sure
there's much to be done but grit your teeth and wait for the storm to
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Bob> I don't recall that anyone has explained how to trim the database
Bob> with the Outlook plugin.
Yeah, I sort of glossed over that bit. I'm not sure there's really a
convenient way to do it either (not being an Outlook user I can't explore
the idea in that context). If you retain th
Skip> Have you tried installing as root?
I forgot to mention that there are obvious caveats. You might still want to
install somewhere else to keep from messing with the system software. I
have a ~/local tree then put ~/local/bin in my PATH and make sure
~/local/lib/python is found by pyth
James> has anyone seen this when installing spam bayes on os x?
James> error:
James>
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/bin/sb_bnfilter.py:
James> Permission denied
No, but I never use the delivered version of Python, preferring to build my
own. Have you t
> "Tony" == Tony Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tony> A lot of people are quite in favour of the multiple filter
Tony> approach. Different filtering techniques have different
Tony> strengths, and so if you combine them in appropriate ways, you'll
Tony> hopefully get an end
Amir> W/o diving into this interesting flame (:-) I would like to make
Amir> one point regarding your own setup - Myself, and I assume most
Amir> other users of SB do NOT have access to the step in mail food
Amir> chain where procmail and similar tools can be installed &
Amir>
Michal> this is true. however have you tried to teach spambayes that
Michal> some mails are ham with a largish ham/spam database? it's a
Michal> nuisance as spambayes must be taught many (and i mean **MANY**)
Michal> times until the token classifications change in favor of the
Bryan> Better yet if there was a whitelist that allows you to do some
Bryan> sort of weighted scoring based on a percentage that could make it
Bryan> even more effective.
That's pretty much what SpamBayes does already. Who an email is from is one
of the clues in a message, but it is
Michal> as for your mark regarding writing one's own software: you're
Michal> certainly right, but if there's a way which is not that
Michal> involving, why not try to take it?
Writing a whitelist facility for SpamBayes would be involving for
someone. ;-)
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Bryan> Don't you agree that you should be able to whitelist everyone you
Bryan> are doing business though?
No, actually I don't. I get the occasional spam and/or virus purporting to
be from people in the Python community who I believe would never spam me and
who I also trust keep their m
similar to their SMTP server product.
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Greg> What I did last night was construct nearly equal size mailboxes
Greg> containing spam and non-spam. Each one had about 1600 messages in
Greg> it.
Why not try a simpler experiment? Start with the five most recent ham and
spam messages you've received. Only add mistakes (false
used this article as the basis for most of my
setup:
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_02/focus_spam_postfix/
I use the postgrey greylisting tool:
http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/postgrey/
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Jim>1. Accessing the database files from more than one process
Jim> concurrently.
Jim> Is this information current?
Yes, I believe it still is. Most SpamBayes usage scenarios involve just one
of the applications, so there's been no crying need to add locking so the
Tony> Alternatively, you are welcome to patch your own copy of
Tony> spambayes, in any way that you like. If you want to try the same
Tony> patch (to keep using 1.0.x rather than 1.1, which includes many
Tony> other changes), then the CVS history (accessible via viewcvs on
Ton
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Monica> Spambayes worked fine until about a week ago...now the log looks
Monica> like this: Should I reinstall? or what?
...
Monica> bsddb._db.DBRunRecoveryError: (-30982, 'DB_RUNRECOVERY: ...
Try deleting your spam/ham database and retraining from scratch. It's
corrupt. You ma
Kenny> Yes and no. The nature of spam makes it highly likely that the
Kenny> imbalance will continue to grow. As developers, we are very
Kenny> concerned about this and are trying to come up with some ideas to
Kenny> improve the situation. Unfortunately, it's a difficult problem
Jerry> Can I use Spambayes with Outlook Express?
Sure:
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/faq.html#does-spambayes-work-with-outlook-express
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FP> Hi, Do you have, or will you provide a Spambayes plugin for Eudora?
There is no Eudora plugin. If someone with the motivation wanted one badly
enough I doubt it would be terribly hard to write. Eudora does have a
published plugin API. There was a period of time when I worked at
Northwe
Traceback (most recent call last):
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Bob> DBRunRecoveryError: (-30982, 'DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run
database recovery -- fatal region error detected; run recovery')
Your database has become corrupted. You need to retrain...
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Steve> I keep getting messages similar to this one and Spambayes doesn't
Steve> move them to the Spam folder.
...
If it's any consolation, it scored 1.00 for me. That suggests (to me,
anyway) that you may have some mistakes in your training or a wildly
unbalanced database.
Here's th
's
written completely in Python (no C code is involved). Can you give it a try
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Amir> With the token being 'Subject:prescription', does it mean that SB
Amir> treats tokens from the subject and/or 'from:' (or any other
Amir> header, for that purpose) differently than those in the message
Amir> body?
Nope. It emits many so-called "synthetic" tokens, tokens whi
Amir> I've just received a spam which scored 0%. The subject was 'No
Amir> prescription? no problem!". I examined the message (with
Amir> Pocketknife Peek) and true, the message itself was pure text with
Amir> absolutely no spam token. The spam was in an HTML attachment that
A
Amir> If you just put viagra, vicodin, cialis and rolex, it would
Amir> probably cover 40% of the spam, but I agree, that's true for this
Amir> month - next month something else will rise to the top of the
Amir> heap.
You still need ham to balance those spam, otherwise everything
Amir> Maybe SB should be installed with a default DB of those terms -
Amir> would certainly save some initial training of the really obvious
Amir> crap.
But many people would find it hard to agree on a corresponding set of hams
to balance the putative spam. Without that (perhaps even
I just wrote:
I suppose the interesting thing was that it actually scored a solid 0.0
for you, not that it needed training. I don't recall getting one that
scored 0.0 before, but certainly under 0.1 isn't all that unusual for
such spam the first time they are seen.
I forgot, yo
Kenny> Well, I guess it was bound to happen eventually. A spammer has
Kenny> finally managed to include a significant enough number of words
Kenny> that are hammy in my SpamBayes database to produce a 0% spam
Kenny> score. A snippet from a Google FAQ is an interesting choice of
Cornelia> is spambayes also available for Lotus Notes?
You can use the POP3 proxy or the IMAP filter with Lotus Notes.
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