[Spambayes] Spambayes for Outlook Express

[Tony Meyer]

> I did it exactly as you stated below, and the result is still 
> the same. 
>   everything comes into the inbox.  There is no action at all that 
> spambayes does. 

SpamBayes only *marks* email.  It's up to your mail client (Outlook Express)
to do anything else that you want to do.

> What's my next step?

1.  Create two new folders in Outlook Express, one called "Possible Junk"
and one called "Junk Mail".

2.  Do Tools->Message Rules->Mail.

3.  Click "New" to create a new rule (I think that if there are no existing
rules it will do this for you).

4.  Click "Where the To line contains people" in the top box, and "Move it
to the specified folder" in the second box.

5.  Click the blue "contains people" in the third box and type "unsure" (no
quotes), then click "Add", then click "Ok".

6.  Click the blue "specified folder" in the third box and find and select
the "Possible Junk" folder that you made in step 1, then click "Ok".

7.  In the fourth box, name the rule "SpamBayes unsure"

8.  Repeat steps 3 through 8, but type "spam" rather than "unsure", choose
the "Junk Mail" folder, and name the rule "SpamBayes spam"

9.  Click Ok.

Assuming that you haven't done any training, then all mail should now be
classified as "unsure", and moved to the "Possible Junk" folder.  Once you
have done some training, mail will be split between your Inbox, the Possible
Junk folder, and the Junk Mail folder, depending on how it was classified.

You do training by double-clicking the envelope icon and filling out the
review page that opens.

Note that there is a flaw in this method: if you get mail from someone who
has "unsure" or "spam" in their email address, those messages will also be
moved.  (The problem comes about because Outlook Express is so limited in
the filtering it can do).  There is a way to workaround this, so let us know
if it's a problem.  When the final 1.1 release is made, it will avoid this
problem (instead of just "unsure", it adds "unsure at spambayes.invalid").

=Tony.Meyer

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