After a bit of web searching, I still can't find any way to easily distribute rules for outlook in a way that they get added to the users server side rules. My rules (which I'd like to have my users use) are set up like this:
1) sort all of my mailing list messages into their appropriate folder && stop processing rules (one rule for each mailing list) 2) Sort BAYES_99 into "spam-99-percent" folder && stop processing rules 3) Sort "X-Spam-Flag: YES" or anything >= BAYES_56 into "spam-probable" && stop processing more rules I wrote up some pretty simple to follow (IMO) instructions for creating the rules (complete with screen shots), but ran a very small test deployment and experienced a 33% failure rate in getting the rules set up correctly (when the users were supposed to be following my instructions). Are any of you supporting large groups of users in such a way that you have needed a way for the users to have the rules added to their Exchange account automatically? (Ideally, it would create the rule (but not activate it) and the folders that the rule is sorting mail into.) Possible solutions I think are "easy enough": 1) Each user runs some batch file, let the user click "OK" a bunch of times. 2) Have some sort of admin tool that lets us add the rules from the server side-- users would then have to allow the rules to sync up on their desktop Exporting the rules (from my client) and importing into theirs doesn't work-- you can't export a subset of your rules, and when you import rules it seems to wipe out all of the old rules. Thanks, -ron P.S. In case anybody cares, I train Bayes only with the spams that are missed completely (ie. remain in my inbox) or don't get flagged as BAYES_99. This typically gives me between 1-4 false negatives and 3-8 true positives that get fed to bayes. I had my first false positive today-- it had a score of 8 (and a bayes score of 60%), but was easy to find because I only had to pick it out of a folder with 6 messages, instead of a folder with ~125 messages (per day).
