[Spambayes] Filter By Language?

[Tony Meyer]

> I've used Outlook 2003 for only
> a few months, but my observation so far is that its junk mail filter
> works pretty well - about as well as Spambayes, actually. Indeed, I've
> been meaning to suggest that Spambayes take advantage of that by
> training on any manual movement of messages out of the junk mail  
> folder.
> You can, of course, use the "delete as spam" button on a message in  
> the
> junk mail folder, but not the "recover from spam" button.
>
> You could, I suppose, use Outlook's junk mail folder as Spambayes's  
> spam
> folder; but in an Exchange environment Outlook's junk mail folder  
> has to
> be in your Exchange inbox, while I've found it useful to place my
> Spambayes folders in a .pst file.

Using Outlook's junk mail folder as SpamBayes' spam folder is what  
'we' intend people to do, whether they're using Outlook's filtering  
or not.  In fact, the default names of the spam & unsure folders were  
changed to match Outlook's way back when the plug-in was in its  
infancy.  Manually moving messages out of the junk mail folder will  
work (assuming that option is still enabled in the Manager) - and  
there are other benefits, like being able to 'empty' the folder via  
the context menu.

Why do you find it better to have the SpamBayes folders stored locally?

You could open a feature request to be able to monitor other folders  
for moving messages, but, realistically, there's little chance of  
that being implemented by anyone currently involved in the next year.

=Tony.Meyer

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