Okay, so tonight I got the SpamBayes IMAP filter working with Gmail after applying a patch that Dave Abrahams submitted about a year ago. (I've yet to check that in, but will do it tomorrow.) My current setup is Gmail w/ POP3 for download and SpamBayes filtering on my laptop. To this I added the IMAP filter. I haven't done too much with it yet, but it works. After a fashion. I'm not particularly keen on the way the IMAP filter operates, but that's probably just my inexperience with IMAP and the way it forces you to work.
I wound up creating two labels, "sbham" and "sbspam". Those appear as folders to the IMAP filter. Any message I wanted it to train on get one of those labels. I have it classify messages in both my INBOX and Spam folders. Unfortunately, I tend to dump my spam periodically via the Gmail interface. Most messages with the sbspam label wind up in my Spam folder. I'll have to get in the habit of not deleting spam tagged with that label so I wind up with something to (re)train on later. Since Gmail has its own spam filter (which you can't disable) I can't help but feeling that the two systems are going to duke it out a bit. We'll see how that works. While I think about it, I also have a Yahoo! Mail address. That tool supports IMAP as well, but you have to upgrade to a "premium" mail service. I imagine it's not all that expensive, but I'll continue to experiment with free mail options for now. Skip _______________________________________________ spambayes-dev mailing list spambayes-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes-dev
