[Spambayes] SpamBayes activation

[Tony Meyer]

> I have downloaded and installed your Spambayes few days ago.
>
> I am currently using two email clients i.e. Outlook Express 6.0 and  
> Eudora 6.2.1.2. will soon use another on Incredimail too.
> Since I installed the program, I have trained it with 111 spams and  
> 27 hams for both mail clients.
>
> But I haven't seen the Spambayes block any spam in may mail  
> clients, same spams keep on coming every day.
> Does it needs an activation or something? How to do it?

SpamBayes doesn't block spam, it classifies it so that you can use  
the classification to do what you want with it in your mail client  
(e.g. move it to another folder).

You need to set up a rule in your mail clients to filter out mail.   
In Eudora, you can do this by filtering on the "X-Spambayes- 
Classification" header - if it's "spam", then SpamBayes thinks it's  
spam, and if it's "unsure", then SpamBayes is unsure, and if it's  
"ham", then SpamBayes thinks it's ham.  You may be also able to get  
Incredimail to filter on this header, too, I'm not sure.

As Outlook Express is such a limited mail client, you can't filter on  
arbitrary headers, so you have to get SpamBayes to add the  
classification to the "To" or "Subject" headers, on which you can  
filter.  FAQ 4.21 explains how to do this.

<http://spambayes.org/faq.html#how-do-i-set-up-spambayes-and-outlook- 
express>

=Tony.Meyer

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