Hi lists, Saturday, August 20, 2005, 12:10:03 PM, you wrote:
>> Hi TBUDL'ers, > >> Bayes Filter plugin v2.0.3 has stopped working. It was working fine, >> catching pretty much everything (I get like 50 spam msgs/day). After >> I edited the Whitelist exclusions list, it stopped and no messages are >> sent to the Junk folder now. > >> I tried uninstall/reinstall (and training) but it didn't work. I >> believe there might be a bug related to where it stores it's database. >> The reason I say this is that my whitelist file was on a different >> drive than the other database files. I checked them and they are all >> pointing to The Bat! program folder but maybe it got lost somewhere >> else (registry?). > >> The BayesIt filter that comes with TB! installation package doesn't >> work for me because it doesn't have an email whitelist feature. > > >> -- >> cheers! >> alien > > Alien and all, > > I had the same problem a while back but I fixed it. You have to > be very careful what you include in the whitelist file, especially > if it's just text. For instance, I had the line "TEXT: luxsci.com" > in my file. What you need to know is that this plug-in apparently > searches *the entire header* for this text. My e-mail provider > happens to be luxsci.com. I wanted to whitelist any e-mail coming > from that domain. Unfortunately, the plug-in ends up whitelisting > *any* e-mails that have luxsci.com *anywhere* in the header. *All* > my *own* e-mail messages no matter who they were from had this > string in them. Thus, *every single e-mail* I received ended up > being whitelisted. The appearance was that the plug-in had stopped > working entirely. Because of this I recommend only putting *full* > e-mail addresses in the whitelist such as > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > Hope this helps a bit. This helps a lot! I think it did the trick. You see, I usually whitelist my own e-mail and had them in there. So obviously (now, that is), any e-mail addressed to me would have them somewhere in the header, even if the header were spoofed. Before your information I had gone back to using BayesIt even though it didn't have a feature to whitelist an entire address book. I figured a way to make a bulk inclusion of the e-mails I wanted to whitelist. BayesIt creates a whitelist.txt file in a format which is not too hard to create: ========================= # From :[EMAIL PROTECTED] # From :[EMAIL PROTECTED] # From :[EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================= It took some juggling with Excel but from a text file with all my emails I was able to create the above format. Hope this is useful to someone. I now use both filters successfully. Take that SPAM!!! -- cheers! alien .. Using The Bat! v3.5.26 on .. Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 - Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.51.10 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
