Firstly I should say I have previously used Spambayes very successfully with Outlook for over a year, thank you. A recent change of email program to Thunderbird has prompted me to try the pop3 proxy server instead.
I have scoured Google searches for 24hours in an effort to find any answers to the problem I have been having, but to no avail. Apologies if there is an answer that I have not found. I have also been through the Spambayes FAQ - which explains much but not for my problems. I have also looked through the Nabble, Python - Spambayes forums. I am running WinXP SP2, Thunderbird 2.0.0.6, Thunderbayes 0.2.2 addin and Spambayes 1.04. I am therefore using sb_service.exe and Spambayes Tray. I have 2 ISPs setup connecting via ports 110 and 111 and Thunderbird set to retrieve the emails from localhost. Initially after setting everything up everything seemed to work fine. I rebooted the computer sometime later and then my problems started. I have had great difficulty getting the sb_service to start when the computer reboots. It initially appears to start with the tray icon showing that Spambayes is running. The icon then changes and Spambayes shows it is stopped. No manual attempts to restart either sb_service or the Spambayes Tray will do anything. Trying to pickup email from Thunderbird results in "no connection to localhost" - which is not surprising as Spambayes is not running. I also cannot access the Spambayes config, view information or read messages when the Spambayes is not running - also to be expected you say (I have included this as information to others who are having the same problems). I have spent a couple of days trying different things in order to get this to work: - reinstall Spambayes - looking at log files - disabling Thunderbayes master password - still not sure if this is an issue or not 2 or 3 times Spambayes has started working again, have picked up email and thought I had solved the problem only to be faced with a sb_service that will not run when I reboot the computer. If it seems vague as to what I have tried, nothing seems to be repeatable, so am not sure. Sorry, I do not have any log files to post now as everything has been overwritten with my successes - see below. I eventually came across a reference to Spambayes 1.1a4 in the Python - Spambayes forum. I found there was a windows install for this release on Sourceforge and decided to try it out. I first of all got in a mess as I did not uninstall the 1.04 program correctly (perhaps there are instructions somewhere I missed) which meant that 1.1a4 was using the old sb_service.exe (I think?). Anyway having deleted the sb_service finally another install of 1.1a4 has sorting everything out so far. Its still early days to know if my mail is being filtered correctly. The only thing I have noticed is that Spambayes is reporting that the version is 1.1a3 and not 1.1a4. I double checked my download which seems to be correct from Sourceforge, but I did notice that someone else noticed a similar problem all be it with the Outlook plugin for 1.1a4. Lastly, I hope this email helps someone else. I was going to post it directly on the Nabble forum, but so far I have not been sent my registration email. I look forward to further releases of Spambayes. _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Info/Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
