[Spambayes] SpamBayes, IMAP, Thunderbird: Doesn't Work for Me!

[Tony Meyer]

> > Every so often, you run the filter, and it does whatever 
> > filtering/training is required.
> 
> And I guess this is taken care of by the -l option, correct?

Yes, unless you want to start up the filter manually each time.

> >>In Thunderbird, under Server Settings, I set Server Name to
> >>localhost (I also tried 127.0.0.1) and port to 993, then 
> >>entered my User Name (no place to enter password).
> > 
> > Thunderbird should have your regular mail server settings.
> 
> In other words, no change from normal, right?

Right.

> You're right, and I'm embarrassed. I even read that in the 
> documentation, then forgot to do it. (I think the fact that 
> the folder configuration isn't located on the Configuration
> Page threw me off, and I just completely missed the other two
> links on the home page.)

In many ways, those links belong on the configuration page.  The problem is
that because they'll take you away to another page, they have to either open
in a new window, which could be confusing, or lose all other changes made to
the config page, or temporarily save the changes (meaning that it's a form
submit and not a link) so that the user can be brought back to the config
page to finish setting up afterwards.  No-one's figured out a good
workaround yet, hence the links on the main page.

> However, now when I click on either of the "Configure 
> folders" links, I get the following:
> 
> 500 Server error
> Traceback (most recent call last):
[...]
>    File 
> "f:\programming\python\Lib\site-packages\spambayes\ImapUI.py", 
> line 210, in _login_to_imap
>      username = options["imap", "username"][0]
> 
> IndexError: tuple index out of range
> 
> Can you tell me what's going on here?

I suspect that it means that you haven't entered (or it's missing from the
config for some reason) your username for connecting to the server.  This
has to be done (via the main configuration pages) before setting up the
folders.  It should deal with the error more nicely than this; I'll try and
fix that tomorrow.

=Tony Meyer

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