[Spambayes] Message an exception to Spambayes and therefore invisible?

[skip at pobox.com]

    Mike> -------In the header--------------------------
    Mike> X-Spambayes-Exception: Traceback (most recent call last):
    Mike>  .  File "sb_server.pyc", line 446, in onRetr
    Mike>  .  File "spambayes\message.pyc", line 243, in setPayload
    Mike>  .  File "email\Parser.pyc", line 245, in _parsebody
    Mike>  .BoundaryError: multipart message with no defined boundary 

This is SpamBayes' email parser telling you the mail message is structured
incorrectly.  There's not much we can do about that I don't think.  I
suspect we could trap any parsing errors and just pass the message through
unmodified.

    Mike>   I continue to use version 0.4 (?) and have it set to send "spam" to my 

You mean 1.0.4?

    Mike> I will wait until after 1.1a6 is in the field a little longer. 

The above problem won't be solved by 1.1a6, but there are many improvements
and bug fixes since 1.0.4 was released.

    Mike> I am not sure whether I even still have Python installed.  I think
    Mike> I add/removed programs some time back to clear out things I didn't
    Mike> use - and Python no longer appears in my installed list.  

If you download the Windows installer I believe it will install Python
automatically.

    Mike> FYI - I have so few false positives that I simply discard my ham
    Mike> and train on spam.

This is, I think, not a good idea.  SpamBayes relies on you feeding it
samples of both good and bad mail.

Skip