[Spambayes] General configuration to change location of database

[Harriger, Alka R.]

I am extremely pleased with the savings in productivity that SpamBayes has
given me in just two weeks! I found out from a colleague who was extremely
happy. I, too, forwarded the info to other friends. 

I am writing due to a problem using SpamBauyes in my work environment where
other people maintain my pc and require the use of roaming profiles which
restricts the amount of storage on my hard drive. I've tried changing the
location of the SpamBayes database (curently over 5MB) in a new files called
Bayescustomize.ini (as well as default_configuration.ini) in the folder with
the application. Regardless of what I place in the file or where I install
SpamBayes, it keeps going to C:\Documents and
Settings\myusername\Application Data\SpamBayes folder to maintain ini and db
files. If I want it to use the best-trained db, I have to copy it there,
which causes serious space problems on my roaming profile. (I can't shutdown
my pc)

I used the information I found in the SpamBayes documentation
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/spambayes/spambaye
s/Outlook2000/docs/configuration.html to create an entry for the location of
the db file I wanted it to use ([General]	data_directory: FilePath)

Other info about my system is:

OS: Windows 2000
Email: Outlook 2000
SpamBayes: Outlook Addin version 0.7

Any assistance you can provide about how to define the location of the db to
SpamBayes would be appreciated. It would be nice to add this as a feature to
the next version of SpamBayes (browsing to identify the location of where
the db file should be placed).

Thank you for sharing such a wonderful product with the user community :-)

Alka Harriger, Professor
Department of Computer Technology
Purdue University
Knoy Hall of Technology, Room 243
401 N. Grant Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2021
Ph: (765) 494-2565
Fax: (765) 496-1212
Email: arharriger at tech.purdue.edu
URL: http://www.tech.purdue.edu/cpt/facstaff/arharriger