[Spambayes] [spambayes-dev] SpamBayes

[Kenny Pitt]

On 12/21/06, Peter Bishop <bishop at aeroprise.com> wrote:
> Remember that SpamBayes is designed to move emails from the Inbox to either
> a Spam Certain folder or a Possible Spam folder.  It's filtering is much
> more sophisticated than any programmable rule will be, and is based on
> training it on the spam and the good email.

It might also be worth pointing out that SpamBayes does not include a
"whitelist" concept of safe senders and safe domains. Using these
functions in the Outlook menus will only affect the builtin Outlook
spam filter, not SpamBayes.

SpamBayes generates "clues" based on the content of each message. As
you tell it over time which messages are good and which are spam, it
builds a list of which clues are most likely to occur in a good
message vs. a spam message. The sender's address and domain are among
the clues used, but there are also many other clues that could be
stronger than the sender clues. This is what the "Show Spam Clues"
information can help us with if you can provide that.

-- 
Kenny Pitt