[Spambayes] I know, another clueless newbie question....

[Tony Meyer]

> That is what I had but I thought I was doing something wrong as it  
> keeps
> coming back with "sending of username did not succeed. Mail server
> Localhost responded: USER" after it asks for the password and I  
> enter it.
>
> I'm beginning to suspect that since my mail server requires both the
> user name and domain name as the fully qualified user name in the form
> <username at domainname.com>, SpamBayes is truncating it at the @ and the
> server isn't getting the full user name and so can't validate the  
> user.

SpamBayes doesn't do any truncating, it sends the USER comment  
exactly as it receives it (in fact, it sends basically every command  
exactly as it receives it).

If you add:

[globals]
verbose:True

to your bayescustomize.ini file (probably in 'C:\Documents and  
Settings\{username}\Application Data\SpamBayes\Proxy'), then you'll  
get a _pop3proxy.log file created that includes a copy of the most  
recent POP conversation.

Try it again (to generate the file), and then STRIP OUT THE USERNAME  
AND PASSWORD from the file, and send us a copy of the log. That  
should explain what is happening.  (FWIW, there are lots of people  
successfully using Thunderbird and SpamBayes together).

=Tony.Meyer

-- 
Please always include the list (spambayes at python.org) in your replies
(reply-all), and please don't send me personal mail about SpamBayes.
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~tameyer/writing/reply_all.html explains this.