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

[Coe, Bob]

Looking up the origin of every possible spam message in the address book might turn out to be a high-overhead operation.

Also, where is it written that people in my address book can never send me mail that I'd consider spam? Numerous viruses have been known to automatically send spam to the victim's correspondents. And I've had a lot of junk forwarded to me by unsophisticated (in the computer sense) friends. If the Outlook plugin ever acquires the "feature" you describe, I think I'd want to be able to turn it off.  ;^)

Bob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thorsten Behrens [mailto:sbehrens at gmx.li]
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 8:35 AM
> To: Peisl, Alfred; spambayes at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Spambayes] "Re: ..." classified as junk suspect
> 
> 
> 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.
> ...
> 
> 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