Re: [Spambayes] Outlook Address Book
SpamBayes delays processing of incoming messages to allow Outlook rules to have a chance to run before they're classified. (This is something of a hack, as there doesn't seem to be any way to guarantee that Outlook's rules run before classification, so you can tune the delay time.) If you create an Outlook rule that moves messages from the inbox to a whitelist folder (or some variation on that theme), it should have the desired effect. That said, I'd recommend against it unless you have a demonstrated need, for a couple of reasons. - It may not be necessary. The sender is among the data SpamBayes trains on. If you consistently train messages from people in your address book as ham, it will tend to classify future messages accordingly. - It may lead to poorer results. It's not hard to spoof a sender address (or to create a virus that sends messages from someone in your whitelist). If you allow SpamBayes to classify your messages, it will look at the content as well as the address. If it's well-trained, it will correctly classify spam even if the address is spoofed. If you whitelist certain addresses, you may find spam in your whitelist folder. -----Original Message----- From: spambayes-bounces@python.org [mailto:spambayes-bounces@python.org] On Behalf Of David Kanareck Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 7:35 AM To: spambayes@python.org Subject: [Spambayes] Outlook Address Book Hi, am using Spambayes 1.0.4 on Windows 2000 Pro and Outlook 2000 2000-SP3. is there any way to configure Spambayes to allow through any messages from people in my Outlook address book? I guess this is some form of whitelist. Kindest regards David Kanareck _______________________________________________ SpamBayes@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
Thanks Jesse, point taken!! Have a good one David On 14 Apr, Jesse Pelton <jsp@PKC.com> wrote:
SpamBayes delays processing of incoming messages to allow Outlook rules to have a chance to run before they're classified. (This is something of a hack, as there doesn't seem to be any way to guarantee that Outlook's rules run before classification, so you can tune the delay time.) If you create an Outlook rule that moves messages from the inbox to a whitelist folder (or some variation on that theme), it should have the desired effect.
That said, I'd recommend against it unless you have a demonstrated need, for a couple of reasons.
- It may not be necessary. The sender is among the data SpamBayes trains on. If you consistently train messages from people in your address book as ham, it will tend to classify future messages accordingly. - It may lead to poorer results. It's not hard to spoof a sender address (or to create a virus that sends messages from someone in your whitelist). If you allow SpamBayes to classify your messages, it will look at the content as well as the address. If it's well-trained, it will correctly classify spam even if the address is spoofed. If you whitelist certain addresses, you may find spam in your whitelist folder.
-----Original Message----- From: spambayes-bounces@python.org [mailto:spambayes-bounces@python.org] On Behalf Of David Kanareck Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 7:35 AM To: spambayes@python.org Subject: [Spambayes] Outlook Address Book
Hi, am using Spambayes 1.0.4 on Windows 2000 Pro and Outlook 2000 2000-SP3. is there any way to configure Spambayes to allow through any messages from people in my Outlook address book? I guess this is some form of whitelist.
Kindest regards David Kanareck
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