If you ever have to retrain from the archive file, I'd suggest that you copy the relevant folder to your main .pst file first. My experience has been that it can be very difficult to persuade Spambayes to let go of a .pst file it thinks it needs. If it remembers that it once used your archive .pst file for training, it may try to open it every time you open Outlook. And if it doesn't find it, you may see other things in Outlook stop working correctly. The interaction between Outlook and the Spambayes plugin is apparently complex; It's a good idea not to tempt fate. Bob MIS Department, City of Cambridge 831 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge MA 02139 · 617-349-4217 · fax 617-349-6165

-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Jansen [mailto:Jeff@ModestSystems.com] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 8:06 PM To: spambayes@python.org Subject: [Spambayes] Outlook Tip: Archive Spam for Retraining

The SpamBayes FAQ says that some people keep their Spam folder filled with hundreds or thousands of messages so that, if the SpamBayes database becomes corrupt, they can use those messages to retrain SpamBayes and rebuild the database. What I do instead is set my Spam folder to Auto-archive every week into a file named archive_SPAM.pst. If the SB database gets corrupted, I would just import that PST file back into Outlook temporarily. After retraining SB, I could then just delete the imported messages. Any new spam is then appended to the archive_SPAM.pst file when the next auto-archive time arrives. Jeff Jansen | Portland, Oregon | USA