[Spambayes] retrieve mail

[Peter Naus]

G'day Brenda, 

It sounds like Spambayes didn't get quite enough material to identify spam
and ham when you first installed it. So by putting material into the
Training folder, Spambayes is asking you to go through that folder and help
it identify what's spam and what's ham.

It could also be that the "suspect" mail handling is a bit aggressive, and
the details on how to change that is below.

If you open the folder in Outlook and select a message, you can then use the
buttons in the Spambayes toolbar to set each message to either "Spam"
(frowning face) or "Not Spam" (smiley face).

It sounds like you'll have to do this for quite a while, as it isn't able to
categorise any of the email at this point - that's why it's so important to
train the program when it's first installed. But even if it does get enough
training material, it still may not have enough information to categorise
each message at this time. So each time you tell it what's good and what's
bad, it will filter more of your email more correctly, and more good mail
will end up in your Inbox and less in the Training Folder.

It's also possible to change the Spambayes behaviour towards "unknown" mail,
if it's too aggressive towards good mail (or not aggressive enough). Open
the Spambayes manager, go to the "Filtering" tab, and look at the "Suspect"
section - you can tell Spambayes where to put suspect mail, how suspect it
has to be before it's considered as "suspect", and you can even turn off
this behaviour if you don't want the hassle of a second folder to check for
spam.

Please also remember to check your "Junk Email" folder for misidentified
mail. As time goes by, Spambayes will misidentify less and less often, but
it's utterly impossible for any program, no matter how sophisticated, to get
100% accuracy on bad and good email, and you'll always need to check your
junk mail folder before deleting it.

I hope this helps, and (even more) it's correct, and I'm not standing on
anyone's toes...

Cheers,
PC Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: spambayes-bounces at python.org [mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org] On
Behalf Of Brenda Boff
Sent: Sunday, 22 July 2007 10:04 AM
To: spambayes at python.org
Subject: [Spambayes] retrieve mail

My spam is filtering and putting the mail into the Training section how do I
recover my mail and why is it sending it somewhere else?
I have nil messages in my inbox but apparently loads of mail in my Training
box.
Regards
Brenda Boff
boffsatoz at bigpond.com

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