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Since you're using Outlook Express, you must be using the proxy server implementation of Spambayes. Your problem evidently stems from the fact that the proxy server provides only a single thread between the POP3 server and the two users. Assuming that you don't mind if you and your wife share a single Spambayes database, you can solve the problem by feeding the two incoming mail streams into Spambyes (i.e., don't bother to differentiate your mail from your wife's), then splitting the output of Spambayes using a second proxy server. (I know it sounds kludgy, but it ought to work.) One proxy server (there may be others) that will do that is VPOP3, an excellent and affordable product of a software house in England. (Google will find you their Web site.) With two proxy servers in series, you'll have to play some games with port numbers, but VPOP3 is almost infinitely configurable, so that's not hard to do.
 
I've never used the Spambayes proxy server, so I don't know for a fact that you can easily make it get its input from two POP3 accounts. But if not, you can probably have your ISP throw all your mail (yours and your wife's) into a single POP3 account. That won't inconvenience you, because VPOP3 is going to split it up again anyway.
 
The point of all this is that you and your wife are no longer competing for Spambayes's attention. It does its job in the background without intervention from either user.

Bob 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyle Forbes
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 12:16 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Spambayes] Multiple XP Users Confuses sb_service

I'm stumped by this problem.  My wife and I use Outlook express, and we each have our own account on our XP machine.  When we both use the sb_tray program, the last one to start it up on his/her account apparently dictates where SpamBayes will retrieve its configuration information.  Seeing this, I decided that maybe the best thing to do was to install the sb_service to provide a central mechanism for filtering spam on our computer.
 
The service starts automatically, and that seems to work fine.  I can login to either of our accounts and retrieve email.  However, the sb_tray program seems confused.  Whoever runs the program first prevents the other one from running it.  The first person to run it gets an active tray program through which he/she can review messages and configure the server.  If I login to the second account, the sb_tray program doesn't work -- it says SpamBayes isn't running.  Even if I shut down the first user's instance of the tray program, the second user can never seem to get an active connection to the service.  Is this a known bug?  How can two outlook express users review messages via the sb_tray program?
 
Thanks.
 
Kyle
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