Why is SpamBayes ignoring my configuration file?
SpamBayes looks for your configuration file in three places – if it can’t find it, then, obviously, your options will not be loaded. The first place that SpamBayes checks is the environment variable BAYESCUSTOMIZE. You can set this to the path of your configuration file, wherever it is, and it will be loaded. You can also specify more than one file, separated by the appropriate path separator for your platform. This is the recommended method of specifying the location of the file, unless you do so via a user interface (as provided by the POP3 proxy, the Outlook plugin, and the IMAP filter). If SpamBayes doesn’t find anything in the BAYESCUSTOMIZE variable, then it checks the current working directory and your home directory for a bayescustomize.ini or .spambayesrc file (respectively).
———————————————— Spambayes looks for your configuration file in three places – if it can’t find it, then, obviously, your options will not be loaded. The first place that Spambayes checks is the environment variable BAYESCUSTOMIZE. You can set this to the path of your configuration file, wherever it is, and it will be loaded. You can also specify more than one file, separated by the appropriate path separator for your platform. This is the recommended method of specifying the location of the file, unless you do so via a user interface (as provided by the POP3 proxy, the Outlook plugin, and the IMAP filter). If Spambayes doesn’t find anything in the BAYESCUSTOMIZE variable, then it checks the current working directory and your home directory for a bayescustomize.ini or .spambayesrc file (respectively).
