Yes. But, if the statistical filter is catching false positives, you need to also run the filter against some mailboxes with only good mail to teach it what your good mail looks like. The more good mail you show it, the better the filters will work based on your mail.
Tripp Allen IMail Development Manager Ipswitch, Inc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Bruner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:14 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] How can I alter antispam word weight? > >You can train the statistical filter by taking messages that you consider > spam or non-spam >and place them in a mailbox > > So, if I direct all spam to a spam box and check the box in the mornings and > verify that all the email there "is" spam then I could run the > antispamseeder.exe every morning to keep the word list maintained? Your > thoughts please? > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Barber > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 1:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] How can I alter antispam word weight? > > > You can train the statistical filter by taking messages that you consider > spam or non-spam and place them in a mailbox > > You can then use the antispamseeder.exe utility to read the messages in that > mailbox and it will update the word list > > See > http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/guide/imailug801/Chapter18%20AntiSpam1 > 0.html, it describes how to use this utility > > Mike Barber > Software Tester > Ipswitch Inc. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matt Robertson > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 1:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] How can I alter antispam word weight? > > > Hi Scott, > > Thanks for the advice. > > I'm using the supplied Imail statistical filtering list. The most > recent one. I fixed these problems with the last version (June) I was > using, by deleting the words from the list. Was looking for a cleaner > solution. > > I'm almost afraid to ask this: Is there a way to train the Imail system > myself? The current system catches a lot of spam, but as you point out > it uses a blunderbuss to do it. As a small ISP, I need something a bit > less haphazard for a general client base. > > -------------------------------------------- > Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com > -------------------------------------------- > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
