[Spambayes] "Re: ..." classified as junk suspect

[Thorsten Behrens]

Peisl, Alfred wrote:

> I'm very satisfied. - Today i found the answer to a mail  i have
> sent to a friend classified as junk suspect. This should not
> happen to answers.


The easy answer is: Then you need to train Spambayes that that 
particular mail is Ham, and it will learn.

That's the whole point of Bayesian filters: They have no preconception 
whatsoever of what category a message to be classified falls into. 
Spambayes without further tweaks knows two categories (Spam and Ham), 
and is clever enough to mark something "Unsure" if the categorization 
attempt delivers an ambigious result. If it marked a message as "Unsure" 
that is "Ham", then the training wasn't sufficient yet, mayhap, and 
training it on that message will improve its performance.

Now, another way to read your email is to say "SpamBayes should classify 
all messages sourced from addresses in my address book as Ham. I submit 
this as an RFE for the Outlook plugin." Not a bad idea. I don't  know 
whether the Outlook plugin already does that (I don't think so), or 
whether there are plans to make it do that. If you feel very strongly 
about that feature, you can always offer your aid to the development 
group and add the feature.
The pop3proxy will never gain that feature, I wager, as it has no way of 
knowing your address book  Not sure about the imapproxy - does imap keep 
address books as well as messages?

Yours
Thorsten