[email protected] wrote:
Kyle> I also discovered today that the proxied messages are being stored
Kyle> in the directory:
Kyle> C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\Application
Kyle> Data\SpamBayes\Proxy\pop3proxy-spam-cache
Kyle> I found these when AVG performed its scan of the system and found
Kyle> quite a few trojans hiding in this directory. So it would appear
Kyle> as though the training begins to occur with messages being cached,
Kyle> but the database isn't being written to perhaps?
Kyle> Can anyone shed light on this situation?
Mail comes into the system and the pop3proxy caches them for your later
consideration when training. SpamBayes doesn't execute any of this code and
no other programs in your system should access them. Still, if this is an
issue for you, you should be running some sort of virus scanner on the front
end which scrubs viruses from email attachments before any other tool (like
Outlook, Thunderbird or SpamBayes) sees the message.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 8.5.325 / Virus Database: 270.12.21/2103 - Release Date: 05/07/09 18:05:00
That's pretty much how I figured it was supposed to work. The caveat
here is that I have not yet configured the proxy in the spambayes
config. I had hoped to train on previously collected spam messages
first, _then_ set up the proxy so that the appropriate filtering would work.
Since I don't have anything executing attachments in Thunderbird, I'm OK
with the messages hitting spambayes and then AVG AntiVirus. The reverse
would also be OK. My main goal is to get rid of the spam in my inbox -
I can deal with the antivirus as a separate issue.
If I've not configured the proxy why would there be cached spam
messages? Is the training partially succeeding even though the logs
indicate otherwise?
K
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