[Spambayes] How to configure for multiple IMAP accounts?

[Christopher rasch]

Hi Nick,

Thanks!  The mail forwarding idea would work for two of my accounts, 
but one of my work IMAP accounts is a shared account that I can't 
forward.  So I would still need to set it up for two.

It looks like sb_imapfilter looks for the ini file in whatever 
directory you run sb_imapfilter.  I wonder if I could just move each 
ini file, along with the associated hammie.db and  
spambayes.messageinfo.db files into separate directories for each 
account, and just start each instance from the appropriate directory.  
However, if there is a canonical way to configure spambayes for 
multiple IMAP, I'd prefer to do that.

Oh, and I also forgot to mention my operating system in my earlier 
message: Mac OS X, v.10.3.

Chris


On Feb 13, 2005, at 11:29 AM, Nick Fankhauser wrote:

> Hi Christopher-
>
> I was faced with a similar problem and ended up taking the brute force 
> approach of simply installing spambayes separately in three different 
> directories. This is ungraceful, but simple as I didn't have to mess 
> with any of the settings. I'm sure there is a better approach but if 
> nothing else is offered, give it a try.
>
> Although that approach worked, I've since done something different 
> that I recommend if you have the option. I've set up two of my email 
> accounts to forward all messages to the third, and then run spambayes 
> only on that one account. From the point of view of spam filtering, 
> this means I only have to train one instance of Spambayes. However, 
> the real administrative savings is elsewhere. I make heavy use of 
> rule-based filtering to sort my incoming mail into appropriate 
> folders. with this method, I have one set of rules and one set of 
> folders instead of three almost identical sets to administer.
>
> The two things I had to do is make an entry in the .forward file on 
> the two unix boxes that house my ancillary accounts and to add a 
> filtering rule in my main account's inbox to filter each of the three 
> incoming mail streams based on the "To:" address. If you don't have 
> access to configure the accounts, I think you'll find that most ISPs 
> or Sysadmins are able to set up forwarding for you.
>
> So... Two solutions- neither is the one you asked for, but I hope this 
> helps.
>
> Regards,
>     -Nick
>
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> Christopher rasch wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have three separate IMAP accounts (two for work, one personal).  I 
>> was wondering how I could set up separate SpamBayes configuration 
>> files for each account.  According to the documentation this should 
>> be possible:
>> "If you use more than one server, then things are a bit more 
>> complicated for you at the moment, sorry. You will need to have 
>> multiple instances of the imap filter running, each with a different 
>> server (and possibly username and password) value. You can do this if 
>> you have a different configuration file for each instance, but you'll 
>> have to do it by hand for the moment. Please let the mailing list 
>> know if you are in this situation so that we can consider coming up 
>> with a better solution."
>> But I'm not sure how to tell each instance where to find the 
>> appropriate config file.  I'm also wondering if each instance can use 
>> the same hammie.db and spambayes.messageinfo.db, or if each one needs 
>> a separate version of each.
>> Thanks in advance for any informtion you may wish to provide.
>> Chris
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