Yes, I’m mostly ignoring the comments on the ThunderBayes posts these days due to a lack of time to even do everything I want to do, let alone what other people want me to do. To be truthful, I don’t even use ThunderBayes anymore because all of my email accounts have been switched to gmail and the spam filtering there is Good Enough for now. That is not to say that ThunderBayes did not work for me when I did use it (it did everything I wanted it to do, and even did a good job at that). However, ThunderBayes is a bit of a kludge and certain parts of it need to be rewritten to be more usable by the average, non-hacker user. Unfortunately I do not have the time nor the will to fix it at this point. If someone else wants to pick up the project I’d be willing to talk (email me).

I do hope some people can still get some use out of the add-on, but at this point I am declaring it unsupported by me. Maybe I will find time sometime in the future to do more work on it, but don’t hold your breath. Others are free to share their solutions to problems of course. Ideally a forum should be setup somewhere because blog comments are not a good place have support discussions, so please refrain from doing that here. Does the Mozilla add-ons site have any type of forum or Q/A section for the community to provide support?

To those of you who are still brave enough to try it out, I would encourage you to first try the default setup with the internal SpamBayes filter. If that does not work, try installing and configuring SpamBayes separately and use the ThunderBayes Add-On options to make ThunderBayes talk to that manually installed copy of SpamBayes. I know that sounds ugly, but it might help some people to continue to use the extension even if it has a few flaws. (Most of the recent problems have been related to the internal SpamBayes config.)

With sincere regrets for not being able to answer every question and fix every problem related to ThunderBayes, I wish everyone who tries it out all the best.

Daniel

Overview

• Added integrated SpamBayes proxy server (can be disabled/bypassed).
• Added ThunderBayes configuration in Thunderbird Account Settings (POP3 accounts only).
• Implemented REST API for SpamBayes, which allows more efficient training and automatically updates the SpamBayes review page when training in Thunderbird.

Download ThunderBayes 1.0rc4

Download ThunderBayes 1.0rc2

In plain English: it was a minor issue. Your error console will have less junk in it now.

Download: ThunderBayes 0.2.2

This release is a very small update. Here are the details:

• Removed re/sre weave test from aopythonexamples (it didn’t pass on Python 2.4 and it wasn’t a good test)
• Improved Aspect.wrap() function
• Added setup.py

See this previous blog entry to find out more about how it works (or download it from the cheese shop and look at the apythonexamples.py script).

Update: works with Thunderbird 2.0.0.* as of 04/11/2007.

Download ThunderBayes 0.2.1

• Improved the toolbar button to allow messages to be marked as ham or spam regardless of the actual spam status of the message.
• Added “Move on mark as ham” feature, which moves messages to Local Folders Inbox by default (the folder can be customized in the ThunderBayes extension options).
• Added two new columns to the message list (Thunderbird 2.0 only):
  1. Spam Status - a column that shows spam status with four icons:
     • Spam - red circle with slash
     • Unsure - yellow question mark
     • Ham - gray dot
     • Unknown - gray question mark (this means the message did not have a “X-Spambayes-Classification” header, which probably means it did not pass through the SpamBayes proxy)
  2. Spam Probability - a column that shows the spam probability as a percentage (0% is ham, 100% is spam). Note that this column will be blank for messages that were received before ThunderBayes 0.2 was installed.
• Added a new “unsure” button state to the toolbar button.
• Improved spam status recognition. ThunderBayes now uses the X-SpamBayes-Classification header to determine the spam status. In the past it relied on the junk status which was set using a filter.
• Thunderbird 2.0 compatibility.

Send bug reports and feature requests to . Include the word “ThunderBayes” in the subject line.