I think you've gotten too cute for your clientele. Spambayes setup is already confusing enough without the arbitrary enforcement of the developers' undocumented notions of best practice.

This sort of thing doesn't help. Remember that this is alpha, open-source, software - if the setup is confusing, then what would help is users explaining what would make it clearer (or submitting a patch). It's also extremely difficult to explain in documentation aimed at users all the "developers' ... notions of best practice" - the statistics stuff at the heart of SpamBayes is pretty much nothing but notions (Tim's, mostly) of best practice.

If you think training on the "sent" folder is a bad idea, say so in the installation instructions; but don't incorporate another unexpected restriction.

I've added a request for this: [ 868648 ] Document restriction against training on Sent Items folder <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=868648&group_id=61 702&atid=498106> Mark will decide at some point :) =Tony Meyer