[Spambayes] Whole domain falsly triggering HAM

[Ryan Malayter]

> From: Mike Crowe
> Subject: [Spambayes] Whole domain falsly triggering HAM
> 
> My company is ELCOM, and our domain is elcomrep.com.  I've 
> probably mistrained, but need to know how to fix it.

If you've badly mistrained spambayes, (which it looks like, since you
have a lot of messages from your own domain trained as spam) you
probably need to rebuild your whole training database.

Hand-sort a bunch (hundreds at least) of recent emails into spam and
non-spam folders. You must be sure they are all categorized correctly. I
like to do this with copies of messages.

Then go to the Spambayes Manager, click on the training tab. Choose your
hand-sorted ham and spam folders as the training source, and make sure
that "rebuild database" is checked. Then choose "start training".

I would then turn off the options whereby spambayes trains when you move
messages between folders. This is confusing for some people, and can be
a source of mistraining.

Regards,
	-Ryan-