SpamBayes looks for your configuration file in three places - if it can't find it, then, obviously, your options will not be loaded. The first place that SpamBayes checks is the environment variable BAYESCUSTOMIZE. You can set this to the path of your configuration file, wherever it is, and it will be loaded. You can also specify more than one file, separated by the appropriate path separator for your platform.

SpamBayes is a tool used to segregate unwanted mail (spam) from the mail you want (ham). Before SpamBayes can be your spam filter of choice you need to train it on representative samples of email you receive. After it's been trained, you use SpamBayes to classify new mail according to its spamminess and hamminess qualities. It's best to train on recent email, because your interests and the nature of what spam looks like change over time.

To configure the Outlook plugin, you should choose SpamBayes Manager from the SpamBayes button on the SpamBayes toolbar. If you use the POP3 proxy or IMAP filter, then simply open a browser window to http://localhost:8880, click on the configuration link on the top right of the page that opens up, and fill in the details. With the POP3 proxy, when you need to select local port numbers to proxy on, if you are only proxying one server, then try 110 first.

Most form->email handling scripts are controlled by fields hidden in the form. However, because of this, people can call the script from anywhere on the web, using their own forms. Obviously, this sort of freeloading isn't very polite, and needing to use a configuration file stops people doing this, because it means they must have write access to the webserver. There is also the issue of the order that configuration statements are run.

This problem USUALLY means that your IFS Home Directory is over its quota. You can check this with the command: If you're "Used" portion is more than your "Quota" portion, then you are over your quota. You'll either have to make your quota larger ('lynx http://www.ifs.umich.edu/~ifs'), or delete some files to fix the problem.

To run a load create your configuration file to be passed to curl-loader using -f command line option, e.g. For more examples, please, look at the files in "conf-examples" directory. You may copy an example file and edit it by using the next FAQ guidelines.

of Log::Log4perl 0.28, every value in the configuration file can be specified as a Perl hook. So, instead of saying log4perl.appender.Logfile.filename = test.log you could just as well have a Perl subroutine deliver the value dynamically: log4perl.appender.Logfile.filename = sub { logfile(); }; given that logfile() is a valid function in your main package returning a string containing the path to the log file. Or, think about using the value of an environment variable: log4perl.appender.DBI.

In addition to category-based levels and appender thresholds, Log::Log4perl supports system-wide logging thresholds. This is the minimum level the system will require of any logging events in order for them to make it through to any configured appenders. anywhere in your configuration file will limit any output to any appender to events with priority of ERROR or higher (ERROR or FATAL that is).

Unless you want to run from the source code, all you need is the SpamBayes installer. At present, any Windows users using Outlook or using any other mail client and retrieving mail via POP3 can use the installer. At present, all other users must run from source. If you want to run from source, you must have a recent version of Python installed on your computer, version 2.2 or later. (Don't ask about backporting it to earlier versions of Python. It's almost a certainty this won't happen.

SpamBayes will work with most POP3 or IMAP compatible clients. How you implement depends on your local architecture. Users with access to procmail can just write a recipe that invokes SpamBayes like this: :0fw | /opt/spambayes/sb_filter.py Follow that with a recipe to check the results and take action: :0 * ^X-Spambayes-Classification: spam ${MAILDIR}/spam Emacs and XEmacs both come with VM, one of a choice of several Emacs-based mail packages. Emacs is extensible using Emacs Lisp or Pymacs.

You can't use SpamBayes directly with the normal AOL Mail interface, but AOL's Mail system is reputed to allow IMAP access. If that proves to be correct you should be able to use the SpamBayes IMAP filter (sb_imapfilter.py) to scrub your AOL mailbox. Should you try this, reports of your successes or failures on the spambayes@python.org mailing list would be appreciated.

Note: The following instructions have been verified using Eudora 5.1 under Windows. If anyone is using Eudora under Mac OS X please let us know if the configuration is the same as Windows. Eudora does not allow configuring the server port through the normal options dialogue. However a large number of options are exposed in an initialization file (eudora.ini) read at startup. The contents of the initialization file are documented by clicking on Help->Topics and searching on EUDORA.

If you subscribe to Yahoo! Mail Plus, you have the option of accessing your Yahoo! mail via the POP3 protocol. SpamBayes has a POP3 proxy application called sb_server that will allow you to filter any POP3 mail account using a POP3 client of your choice (Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape, Mozilla, Eudora, etc.). If you use the free Yahoo! Mail service, then Yahoo no longer provides POP3 access.

Follow the "Review messages" link and you'll see a list of the emails that the system has seen so far. Check the appropriate boxes and hit Train. The messages disappear and if you go back to the home page you'll see that the "Total emails trained" has increased. Once you've done this on a few spams and a few hams, you'll find that the X-Spambayes-Classification header is getting it right most of the time.

Instructions about training the Outlook plugin can be found in the documentation for the plugin, and the 'Configuration Wizard' will attempt to guide you through an initial training process. Basically what you need to do is move as much spam as you have into your spam folder, tell the plugin which folder that is and which folders contain examples of ham, and it will do the rest. The plugin does not train on all incoming mail.

Make a note of what you currently have in the "incoming mail server" entry (the name of your POP3 server). Change the "incoming mail server" from the name of your POP3 server to "localhost" (no quotes). Open the SpamBayes configuration page at http://localhost:8880/config (you can do this via the tray application, or just type that address into your browser). Enter your POP3 server's name in the top box ("Remote Servers").

The OCRRocket.ini file must be located in the same folder as the OCRRocket.exe program file. Also, if you are using a Windows OS with the NTFS file system, you must make sure the user running the OCR Rocket has enough access rights to allow them read access on the OCRRocket.ini file. In case there are multiple copies of the OCR Rocket on your computer, make sure the OCRRocket.ini file is in the folder of the copy you are executing.