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According to your logfile, you've trained "4 spam and
412 good" messages. This is almost certainly the reason for your
problem.
This is an *extreme* oversimplification of the
mathematics in SpamBayes, but the SpamBayes filter basically boils down to
taking each word in the message and comparing the percentage of spam messages
that contain the word to the percentage of good messages that contain the word.
Let's say you have a word that appears in 2 spam messages. That's 50% (2/4). To
get an equal 50% of good messages to balance the spam percentage, the word would
have to appear in 206 good messages (206/412 = 50%). As you can see, it doesn't
take nearly as many occurrences of a word to make it seem spammy as it does to
make it seem good.
To solve the problem, I would start by resetting your
training data and starting over from scratch. To do that, first close Outlook
and then go to your "\Documents and Settings\username\Application
Data\SpamBayes" directory and delete the *.db files. Now restart Outlook. With
no training data, any new messages should go to your "Unsure" or "Possible Spam"
folder. Select each unsure message and select either "Delete as Spam" or
"Recover from Spam" to train SpamBayes with the correct classification. With a
little training, SpamBayes will soon start identifying new messages as
either good or spam. Just keep an eye on the results and use the toolbar buttons
to train any messages that SpamBayes classifies incorrectly or as unsure. You
should find that the accuracy of the SpamBayes filter will increase very
quickly.
You can read more about training on the SpamBayes wiki.
This particular style of training is referred to as TrainOnErrorsAndUnsures on
the wiki.
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Kenny Pitt
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 3:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Spam Help Kenny, Thanks for the tip. Here is the log
file. There is no server side filter
too. From: Kenny
Pitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If SpamBayes is
running and moving messages to the Spam folder then it should also be creating a
log file. Try searching your hard disk for any file named "spambayes?.log"
(where ? could be any of the digits 1, 2, 3, or 4). The log file would be very
helpful in determining what is causing this. You could also use
the "Show spam clues" command in the SpamBayes menu and send us the clues for
one of the messages that was incorrectly moved to the Spam folder. The clues
will usually allow us to determine if there is a training problem that is
causing the misclassification. If there really is no
log file on your disk then it is highly unlikely that it is SpamBayes that is
moving the messages. In that case, you should check if there is another spam
filter running or if you have any message rules that might be moving the
messages. If you are connecting to an Exchange server, there is also a slight
possibility that your organization might be running a server-side spam filter
that is moving the messages before you access them. -- Kenny
Pitt From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, All of my email is being filtered as
spam. I goes directly to the Spam folder. I checked you trouble shooting guide,
but still could not fix. I even upgraded to your latest version of
SpamBayes...1.0.4 (March 2005) Can you help? Thank
you. Sincerely, Op System isWindows 2000 running Outlook
2000 SpamBayes 1.0.4 (March
2005) There was no log
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