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Subject:    [Spambayes] Eudora configuration
From:       tameyer () ihug ! co ! nz (Tony Meyer)
Date:       2006-01-30 23:05:51
Message-ID: 03715AAB-921B-4618-B422-285A7A9FCAD7 () ihug ! co ! nz
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> I have some instructions from cvs.sourceforge.net ? but it?s still  
> not clear to me, or done in idiot-proof steps.

That's a strange place to look for instructions?  Did something point  
you there, or was it a guess?  The instructions that come with the  
software when you download it are the best place to start.  There's  
also a "SpamBayes with Outlook Express for Dummies" FAQ which mostly  
applies to other mailers as well.

> I?ve installed Python (and Mark Hammond?s extensions),

Any reason why you didn't just install the binary version?

> It?s just not clear to me what to fill in where.  I work best by  
> examples, I guess where I don?t have to know WHY, I just do it?
The text to the right of the options is meant to provide both 'what'  
and 'why' (there's certainly examples for most of the main ones).  If  
one of them isn't clear, please let us know (ideally with a  
suggestion for better wording).

>  Anyway, this is a bit of what it looks like now:

You don't really need to use the SMTP proxy, so you can leave that  
out if you like.  8110 is a very odd port for a SMTP proxy, too - 25  
would be normal, or something like 8025 if 25 is already taken.  The  
rest looks fine, assuming that prondina.mail.yale.edu is your  
incoming mail (POP) server and mail.yale.edu is your outgoing (SMTP)  
server.

> Or is it all done in the Eudora.ini?  I change PopServer=Sorcer (my  
> PC name), and likewise for SMTP?

Just use the Eudora GUI to change the account to connect to  
"localhost" (you can use the machine's name if you would rather).   
You don't need to manually edit the configuration file (unless you  
have more than one incoming mail server to connect to, in which case  
each proxy needs to run on a separate port, and Eudora's GUI (for no  
apparent reason) doesn't let you select the port).

> Since I started this some days ago, and stopped in confusion, I?ve  
> forgotten exactly WHAT of Python is installed.

Another reason the binary would be much simpler.

>  Where do I do:
> net start pop3proxy  - or do I have to do it?

If you use the binary, then it will install a shortcut in your  
startup items folder that will take care of all of this.  If you want  
to use the source, then you need to run "python sb_server.py" to  
start sb_server.  If you want to use the Windows service (you don't  
really need to), then (assuming you have already installed it), you  
use "net start pop3proxy" to start it, yes.

=Tony.Meyer

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