[spambayes-dev] sb_notesfilter.py changes

[Tim Stone]

> Hi,
>
> I downloaded spambayes a few days ago, saw that you had some notes 
> support,
> and tried to integrate the script to run on receipt of mail in my notes
> client.

Very primitive support, as you have seen.  Glad to see that these were the 
only changes you required <wink>.  Would you let me know how it works for 
you as time goes on?  One thing that I noticed was that it became less and 
less able to accurately classify, and I think it's related to a couple of 
things.  One is that notes does not give you headers in the rfc822 sense.  
Thus the "no headers found" token becomes the deciding factor if your 
spam/ham ratio gets way out of whack, which mine was... like 3000:250 or 
something like that.  It started deciding that almost everything was 
spam... let me know what your experience is.  If your s:h ratio remains 
more reasonable, i would expect it to behave much more reasonably.

I'd love to have a notes integration, similar to the outlook integration, 
that doesn't rely on an external program using the com interface... but 
that is beyond my abilities with notes.

>
> These were the changes that I had to make (attached diff file):
>
> add -P password option to specify the notes password.  Not terribly 
> secure
> I guess, but
> you don't have to use it if you don't want to.
>
> make it so that the pathname of the mail database is used both on server
> and on
> local machine.
>
> make the replication occur only if running on the server fails.
>
> allow redirection of stdout and stderr to file (-R filename)
>
> allow logging to a notes database.
>
> add file "Spam" to processed mail, to record spam probability.

I'll check 'em out!  Thanks.

>
>
>
> I then added an "agent" (lotus speak for script) that processes new mail,
> and some menu options for manually marking as spam,  for unmarking
> falsely classified spam and for training as ham.

I tried to do this, but just couldn't figure it out... if you can give me 
the source for the agent, I can include it in the documentation... again, 
thanks for the input.
>
> Regards,
> Hugo
>
> (See attached file: sb_notesfilter.diff)
>
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