[Spambayes] Simple and Direct

[John Coulter]

Dear Tony,
Thank you for your help so far. You must be incredibly patient. I double 
clicked the 'pop3proxy_tray.py' file and I also tried running it from 
the windows 'Run' option but neither gave me an icon on the screen such 
as you described. I have nonetheless put the file 'pop3proxy_tray.py' in 
the startup menu so it should load every time on startup. Also in the 
directory C:\spambayes-1.0a5\windows I noticed a file called 
autoconfigure which I double clicked thinking that it might do what its 
name implies but it did not seem to change anything and when I opened it 
to read its contents it seemed a description of what needs to be 
configured but the terms don't mean anything to me.
As mentioned earlier I don't know  whether there is any difference 
between a pop3 and a pop and while I can see what the general idea is, 
namely, channelling incoming mails through an intermediate detector to 
separate spam from ham, I can't understand enough of the jargon to be 
sure what and where to change things.
Here are my present settings:
In Netspace 7.0 under edit/preferences/advanced/proxies there are five 
lines as follows:
HTTP Proxy: proxy.netspace.net.au  Port 8080
SSL Proxy:         blank                    Port 0
FTP Proxy:         blank                    Port 0
Gopher Proxy:     blank                    Port 0
Socks Host:         blank                    Port 0
Under that the option 'Socks v5' is checked
Then a line which reads 'No proxy for:' followed by a blank space
And below that again 'Automatic proxy configuration URL:' is not checked

In the same general window 'Edit/Preferences/Advanced/HTTP networking, 
there are two sides:
Direct Connection
Use HTTP 1.1 is checked as is Enable keep alive
and on the other side
Proxy Connection options
Use HTTP 1.1 is checked as is Enable keep alive

Then under Mail and Newsgroups Account settings:
Server Settings
Server Name: pop.netspace.net.au
User Name: coulters
Port 110

Also under Mail and Newsgroups Account Settings
Addressing: When looking up addresses: checked is 'use my global LDAP 
server preferences for this account'

Also
Outgoing Server (SMTP)
Server Name: mail.netspace.net.au

There is also a facility for adding an account. I don't know whether 
this is an option that could be used with spambayes?

I have replaced both the Server Name as well as the SMTP settings with 
the word 'localhost' but could not retrieve any emails.

Running 'C:\spambayes-1.0a5\build\scripts-2.3\pop3proxy.py -b' briefly 
opens a dos window followed by the Netscape window  showing the address 
http://localhost: 8880/ and the 'My Connection' window. If I click 
'connect' I get the message 'The requested URL could not be retrieved'.

I apologise for burdening you with all of this as I suspect that most is 
not relevant - but I don't know exactly what to change and where to 
change it. Since we started this correspondence I have accumulated 465 
spams - about 40% of all the messages I have received so you can 
understand my desire to get your program working.

With best wishes,
John

Meyer, Tony wrote:

>The easiest way is to double-click the "pop3proxy_tray.py" file that is
>in the "windows" directory in the "spambayes-1.0a5" directory.  This
>should add a wee mail icon to the 'tray' (by the clock).  If you right
>click that you should get a menu from which you can choose
>"configuration", and it's hopefully straight-forward from there.  You'll
>want to start up pop3proxy_tray every time you start windows - the
>easiest way of doing this is to put a shortcut (right-click and choose
>"create shortcut") in the startup items folder.
>
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>
>>running C:\spambayes-1.0a5\setup.py install 
>>has certainly changed the files within spambayes.
>>For example before this change there was a file
>>C: \spambayes-1.0a5\spambayes-1.0a5\testtools\data\ spam (or ham)\set
>>    
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>1 (2,3,4)
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>>There is no such file within testtools after running the setup.py
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>install
>
>Those directories should only have been created if you were using the
>testing setup; presumably something you tried along the way created
>them.  I have no idea why they would go, either.
>
>The way to check if the install occurred is to look in the
>"C:\python23\Scripts" directory.  If there is a file called
>"pop3proxy.py", then it did.
>
>=Tony Meyer
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