[Spambayes] Bug?

[Tim Stone]

Spambayes operates on a the basis of statistics.  It's keeps track of 
words that have appeared in mails you've told it as spam, and based on 
the frequency both of the occurrance of those words in mail you've told 
it as spam, and the frequency of those words occurring in a particular 
mail that's being checked, it calculates a probability that this is or 
is not spam.  Then, based on that probability, it moves mail to junk, 
junk suspects, or leaves it be.  Now, when you recover a particular mail 
from junk, it retrains spambayes on the words that are in that mail, 
which generally won't be enough to overwhelm the weight of the 
statistics it's already gathered.  What you need to do is keep 
recovering from junk mails that you don't want to be there, and 
eventually, you'll have readjusted the statistics in its word database, 
so it'll make mistakes less and less often.  Very rarely does anyone get 
to a situation where it NEVER misclassifies any email, so it's always a 
good idea to check your junk every now and then, to recover mail that 
you don't want to be there.

All that said, what you've discovered is not a bug, it's the way 
spambayes works.  Simply recovering a particular mail from junk is 
probably not enough to make sure that that identical mail won't be 
classified as junk the next time.  Keep working with it, and it'll 
become as accurate as statistics will allow it to be!
Samantha Elpern wrote:

> Several people within my organization are having this same problem 
> while others are not.  After recovering an email from Junk Suspects to 
> Inbox, SpamBayes does not appear to be learning that this is not 
> junk.  This is how the settings are checked currently.
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> Samantha Elpern
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