Hello Tony, I really appreciate your quick response and the candor of its content. It is refreshing. Much better than I would get from a "for profit" company.
In the light of a new day I will probably give it another go. My wife visited your fair country a couple of years ago and still talks about it. A fascinating country. Good luck with your project. Charlie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Charlie & Urs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 4:13 AM Subject: Re: [Spambayes] Complicated >> I thought that I would install it at home on Outlook Express. No way. I >> could have deleted a years worth of spam in the time that I have spent >> trying to understand the installation. I am no sure it is hard but the >> terminology is confusing. I am not willing to risk having no email to >> get it going. > > The problems here are: > > (a) This is a project where all contributions are made by volunteers > working in their 'spare time'. In addition, the most common > contributions are ones that benefit the contributor themselves; I don't > think any developer uses Outlook Express, so contributions towards this > have to be somewhat more altruistic than normal. > > (b) Outlook Express is an extremely limited mail client (Microsoft > would like you to buy Outlook/Office). This means that there's more to > setting it up than there is with other clients (e.g. Eudora, > Thunderbird), and a plug-in (like with Outlook) isn't feasible. > >> Having said all that, you have done some good work here and I will just >> wait until you get it refined before I give it another go. > > Unfortunately, you may be waiting a long time. There is a partially > completed automatic configuration script, but it hasn't been worked on > for some time, and is pretty far down my list (and probably not even on > anyone else's). > > However, on a brighter note, there is a step-by-step guide, which we have > made as simple as possible (suggestions are always welcome) at FAQ 4.21: > <http://spambayes.org/faq.html#how-do-i-set-up-spambayes- > and-outlook-express> > > If you do decide to give it a go, and you run into trouble, please don't > hesitate to ask for help here (please be as specific as possible about > where you are up to, and what is going wrong). > > If something does go wrong (it's a pretty simple process, so it > shouldn't, but...), then to revert to how things were before you set it > up, all you have to do is change the settings in Outlook Express back to > connect directly to your mail server. No mail will be lost, it will > still be waiting on the server to be collected. > > =Tony.Meyer > > -- > Please always include the list (spambayes at python.org) in your replies > (reply-all), and please don't send me personal mail about SpamBayes. > http://www.massey.ac.nz/~tameyer/writing/reply_all.html explains this. > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.5/178 - Release Date: 11/22/2005 > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
