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"Deleted Items" is a special folder in Outlook and
sometimes produces strange results when used in conjunction with SpamBayes. To
prevent this, we specifically prevent the user from selecting "Deleted Items" in
SpamBayes.
To work around it, just create a normal folder for good
messages and move all your good mail from "Deleted Items" into that
folder.
A couple of notes about training, though. We generally
recommend that you not train SpamBayes on a large amount of existing mail.
SpamBayes learns quickly, and keeping your training data small usually means
that SpamBayes can adapt to new types of mail more quickly. I would recommend
choosing at most about 10 messages of each type, putting those
into separate "Training - Spam" and "Training - Good" folders and then training
on those. When I retrain, I don't give it any initial training at all. I just
delete the database files from the data folder and let SpamBayes start from
scratch. And for any initial training that you do, try to make sure that you
have an approximately equal number of good and spam
messages.
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Kenny Pitt
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Gaston Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 4:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [spambayes-dev] Question about re-training SpamBayes I didn't see this question listed in the FAQs:
I need to re-train SpamBayes. I've saved all the spam it's detected over the past year, so it's no problem giving it plenty of examples of spam. My "ham" messages (the good stuff) is all located in my Deleted folder, which I never empty. But SpamBayes won't let me choose my Deleted folder as a source of training. Why, and how can I get around this?
Thanks.
Mike Gaston Somerville NJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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