[Spambayes] Teach Spambayes 'good' email.

[Mark Hammond]

You should simply move it back to your Inbox, and that will cause SpamBayes
to train the message is good.  Once it is back in your Inbox, you should
find the Spam score lower than it was when in either of the "Spam" or
"Unsure" folders.

Mark.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: spambayes-bounces at python.org
> [mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of Unterste,
> Andreas (AU)
> Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2003 8:27 AM
> To: 'spambayes at python.org'
> Subject: [Spambayes] Teach Spambayes 'good' email.
>
>
> First of all : Congratulations, terrific product !
>
> question though, I might have gone the cheap route and define
> my InBox as 'good email' (with lot's of good email in there
> when I trained) and created a spam folder where I kept a
> couple of days worth of spam. The training worked great and
> the filter works great as well, however if I receive email
> with a high spam score (below the threshold to move it to
> spam) I have no way to tell Spambayes that it is good mail.
> If it has a low spam score and I consider it spam, I just
> need to move it to the spam folder and it's spam score gets
> set to 100%.
>
> Was it not wise to train with my InBox ? Should I have a good
> mail and bad mail folder and move from the inbox to the good
> mail folder to finetune the training ? I guess what I'm
> looking for is a button similar to the 'Delete as Spam' which
> has a 'Keep as Good' functionality.
>
> Any thoughts ?
>
> Thx,
>
> Andreas
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