[Spambayes] exchange "problems"

[Chris Boldiston]

Bob


Thanks for that information, I will try filering again and see if that
helps.


Regards,

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Coe, Bob [mailto:rcoe at CambridgeMA.GOV] 
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 10:30 PM
To: Chris Boldiston
Cc: spambayes at Python.org
Subject: RE: [Spambayes] exchange "problems"

When that happens, be sure to filter the inbox again. Spambayes leaves spam
in my inbox rather often. But when it leaves a lot (sometimes fifty messages
or more), filtering again often sweeps up most of it. It appears that under
some circumstances Spambayes just quits filtering, but the retry proves that
failure to recognize the messages as spam isn't the problem. This may or may
not be related to the timing problems that motivated the addition of the
"background filtering" feature, but it has been very persistent through
several versions of Spambayes. It doesn't get worse from version to version,
but it doesn't get better either.
 
I use Spambayes with Exchange at work and with a POP3 server at home. Most
of the failure to filter occurs with the POP3 server, but that may just be
because a server-side spam filter vacuums up most of our incoming spam at
work before Exchange (or Spambayes) ever sees it. 

Bob 

	-----Original Message-----
	From: spambayes-bounces at python.org
[mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of Chris Boldiston
	Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:38 AM
	To: spambayes at python.org
	Subject: [Spambayes] exchange "problems"
	
	

	Hi

	 

	First a work of thanks - I have been using and recommending
SpamBayes for about 2 years and it has been terrific! About 12 months ago I
got a new laptop with XP Pro and Outlook 2003. I initially used the Outlook
built in spam filtering but the darned product just did not work. I get
about 150 spams per day and it's critical that I don't miss any ham - the
Outlook product let me down so I went back to SpamBayes.

	 

	Its all been running perfectly for about 10 months - I NEVER get
spam in my Inbox and usually have 4 or 5 Junk Suspects. A few weeks ago I
configured Outlook to connect to exchange over my new VPN and started
getting spam in my Inbox.  I changed SpamBayes configuration to enable
Background Filtering and have Process Start Delay of 1.5 secs and Delay of
.5 secs configured. I am still getting spam in my Inbox. The stats for today
are;

	 

	SpamBayes processed 130 messages - 13 (10%) good, 104 (80%) spam and
13 (10%) unsure

	1 message was manually classified as good (with 0 being false
positives)

	75 messages were manually classified as being spam

	 

	Do you have any suggestions on what I can do to get SpamBayes to
behave?

	 

	Thanks!

	Chris

	 

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