I found a solution to the SpamBayes failure on Vista. SpamBayes mysteriously stopped working on my Vista with an crash during the startup of Outlook 2003 saying "Microsoft Office Outlook has Stopped Working." Multiple reinstalls did not fix the error. What solved this problem was changing a setting in DEP (Data Execution Prevention) - see Microsoft topic (http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/1d9bb9b4-f6ba-466d-ac2b -7b8c4f8361611033.mspx). By changing this setting to "Essential Windows programs and services only" and then rebooting, Spambayes did fire up but gave a new error "There was a Problem Starting Spambayes...Try restarting Outlook." Deleting the configuration did not help, nor did copying a "good/previously working" configuration to the proper data directory. This particular error was solved on my system by turning off Vista's User Account Control" In the Control Panel, run "User Accounts" and click the link "Turn user account control on/off". By unchecking this option and rebooting the computer, SpamBayes works wonderfully...of course now I've turned off everything on Vista that was meant to protect my system...but who cares? :~) SpamBayes works!
Now I hope someone smarter than me can provide a solution where these options can be turned back on and still have SpamBayes function correctly. DEP execution does allow an option to turn on DEP protection for all EXCEPT exe's that you designate. I tried this setting by putting Outlook.exe in the exeception list, but this did not solve the SpamBayes error. SpamBayes does not have an .exe, right? Brian _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
