[Spambayes] Odd behavior with messages

[Tony Meyer]

>>> Does Spambayes learn from experience or only from training?
> 
>>If you mean does it do any automatic training, then no it does not.
> 
> No what I meant was if I go into my Junk suspects folder and 
> delete as spam and recover from spam doesn't spambayes learn from that?

Yes, training is done then.

> Additionally I was reading about ways to clean up the 
> database.  Can I open my database of messages it trained on and
> delete enough of the HAM so it gets closer to an even match.

Not really.  The Outlook plug-in doesn't support any sort of "untraining"
(apart from as part of "retraining").

The thing is that the database doesn't know anything about the messages that
you have received.  It just knows about a whole lot of tokens (words), and
how many times each has been seen in ham or spam.  You can manually edit
those counts (using tools in the SpamBayes source distribution), but it
really isn't a good idea.

> I am still discussing it because that one oddball false 
> positive is still occurring.
> 
> It is exactly the same content as the messages I have sent 
> several times.
> The score is 0% in the Outlook column yet it repeatedly drops 
> it into my spam folder.
[...]
> I am aware that this does not mean that spambayes is the 
> cause of this issue but since it is the only program I believe
> set to filter mail to the Junk E-mail folder I am guessing it
> is related.

When it occurs, what is the log message that gets written?  If SpamBayes is
moving it (anywhere), then the log will say so.

> But if I just open the manager and retrain does it
> simply recreate the database based on the new data or does it 
> add to the current database?

If you tick the "Rebuild entire database" box, it will do the former, if you
don't tick it, then the latter.

=Tony.Meyer

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