SpamBayes Experimental Options

We would like to remind users about our set of experimental options. These are options which we believe may be of benefit to users, but have not been tested throughly enough to warrent full inclusion. We would greatly appreciate feedback from users willing to try these options out as to their perceived benefit. Both source code and binary users (including Outlook) can try these options out.

If you have any queries about the experimental options, please email spambayes@python.org and we will try and answer them.

sb_server & sb_imapfilter

To enable an experimental option, sb_server and sb_imapfilter users should click on the "Experimental Configuration" button on the main configuration page, and select the option(s) they wish to try.

Outlook

To enable an experimental option, Outlook plug-in users should open their "Data Directory" (via SpamBayes->SpamBayes Manager->Advanced->Show Data Folder) and open the "default_bayes_customize.ini" file in there (create one with Notepad if there isn't already one). In this file, add the options that you wish to try - for example, to enable searching for "Habeas" headers, add a line with "Tokenizer" and, below that, a line with "x-search_for_habeas_headers:True".

More information about editing Outlook configuration files can be found by selecting SpamBayes->Help->About->Configuration from within Outlook.

Available options

A list of the experimental options that are available in the current release is available, as is a configuration file that is filled out with all experimental options set to their default values.