On 4/3/07 1:28 PM | 4/3, "Bellwether" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/3/07 1:13 PM, William M. Smith wrote: > >> The junk mail filter in Entourage is not a "learning" filter. > > Are we absolutely sure about this? I deliberately clicked a newsletter as > junk several times in a row and now all copies of this newsletter go right > into the junk folder. It's a legit newsletter, if any of you received it I > doubt it would get designated as junk (I just got tired of it and couldn't > remember my password into the site to unsubscribe); this makes me wonder > whether my filter didn't actually learn from my clicks. Perhaps it's all > coincidence. I can't find anything that claims that it learns, other than my > anecdotal experience. Yes, I'm sure. A learning filter or Bayesian filter can be trained. Entourage does not use a Bayesian filter. It instead has a list of rules that periodically get updated by Microsoft in Office updates. In the 11.3.4 update, the "Junk E-Mail Protection" data file found in the Microsoft Office 2004/Office folder was one of the changed files. I'm not 100% sure but I guess this is probably the magic file with the rules for flagging spam. This or a similar update is probably why your newsletter is now getting flagged as spam. bill -- William M. Smith (Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows) -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
