From dave.w.robinson at btinternet.com Fri Apr 26 18:37:02 2013 From: dave.w.robinson at btinternet.com (Dave W Robinson) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:37:02 +0100 Subject: [spambayes-dev] New Disgruntled SpamBayes user Message-ID: <000f01ce429c$66b4cf20$4001a8c0@davevideo> Hi, I have Outlook Express 6 and Windows XP SP2. I read that the latest version 1.1a6 does not work with Outlook Express so I installed 1.0.4 instead as recommended. It appeared to work at first, then I tried to put my second mail server details in the Config page. I already had port 110 for BT and tried to add my Which account as 110. I quickly noticed that I had to have 2 different ports so I tried 8110 as suggested for the Which account. After that, the Which server kept on asking me for the password over and over again. I shut down OE and restarted, then my BT account was asking for a password. I put the server names in OE back to the original and it's still asking for the BT password. I disabled Spambayes from the tray and it still asked me for the password. I confirmed my passwords hadn't been changed by signing on to both accounts using Mail2web. Even when apparently disabled, and SpamBayes config page set back to nothing, I keep on getting asked for my password. I had to restore my PC to before I installed Spambayes to get it back to square one. After the restore, it worked of course. However, this was an awful lot of work for a piece of software I thought had been tested. I look forward to your comments. Thanks Regards Dave -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From skip at pobox.com Fri Apr 26 22:54:11 2013 From: skip at pobox.com (Skip Montanaro) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:54:11 -0500 Subject: [spambayes-dev] New Disgruntled SpamBayes user In-Reply-To: <000f01ce429c$66b4cf20$4001a8c0@davevideo> References: <000f01ce429c$66b4cf20$4001a8c0@davevideo> Message-ID: > I have Outlook Express 6 and Windows XP SP2. .... > I had to restore my PC to before I installed Spambayes to get it back to > square one. > After the restore, it worked of course. > > However, this was an awful lot of work for a piece of software I thought had > been tested. > > I look forward to your comments. I'm sorry that you encountered such difficulty. I don't know if Outlook Express 6 is a current version or not. I'm not a Windows user, but thought that it had been discarded long ago and superceded by Windows Live Mail. In any case, due to lack of Windows programmer availability, coupled with advances in spam filtering by major free Web-based mail services such as Gmail, there has not been a release of SpamBayes since 2010. As the last semi-active developer, I stopped using it altogether a year ago, and hadn't really exercised it much for two years before that. I'm a Gmail and pobox.com user, and between the two of them, basically never see spam in my inbox. I'm pretty sure there are no other SpamBayes users who still use Outlook Express, but you might try asking on the spambayes at python.org mailing list if there is someone who can help you set up and configure that combination. Skip