I'm sending a copy of this message to the SpamBayes
list so you'll get the benefit of the experience of everyone who subscribes. I'm
just another user; I try to help out on the list so the developers can focus on
development. I haven't had this particular problem, so my experience is of
limited use to you.
That said, one thing that I know happens sometimes is
that Outlook decides that it should disable SpamBayes. Go to Outlook's Help
menu, select "About Microsoft Office Outlook," and click the "Disabled Items..."
button. If SpamBayes is listed, re-enable it.
The SpamBayes Manager dialog is only accessible from
the SpamBayes toolbar button, so until you get the toolbar back, you won't be
able to get to the dialog. Let's take one problem at a time, and deal with the
training issue once you've got the toolbar back.
From: M. Anne Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 4:18 PM
To: Jesse Pelton
Subject: RE: [Spambayes] IMPORTANT QUESTIONThanks for your reply, However I just went to that site and the space for those buttons is still there, but they're not. I don't know what they mean -- because both my DELETE AS SPAM and RECOVER FROM SPAM buttons are gone. And-- I don't know how to open up the Spam Bayes Manager Dialogue, i.e. don't know where it is etc.I also don't know how to discard the training database. Is there a way I can call you and get a "talk thru" to solve my problems?Thanks!Anne-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse Pelton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 2:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Spambayes] IMPORTANT QUESTIONHave you tried the suggestions in http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/faq.html#the-recover-from-spam-button-no-longer-appears?As for training, the recommended (simplest and typically most effective) approach is the obvious one: when SpamBayes puts something in the Unsure folder or misclassifies a message (thinks it's spam when it's not or vice versa), use the "Delete as Spam" or "Recover as Spm" button as appropriate to train SpamBayes. People typically find that classification improves rapidly; training on ten or so messages often leads to good results. If you're not getting good results, it may be worth discarding the training database and starting over.There's no way to tell SpamBayes that certain words only occur in spam. The process of scoring messages as ham or spam works by looking at how often the words in a message appear in other messages that you have indicated are spam and/or ham. This tends to work better than simple black-and-white filtering. For instance, to use your example, if a friend writes to tell that she's buying a house and looking for a recommendation for bank to get a mortgage from, filtering only on mortgage would mean that message is discarded. SpamBayes would look at every word in the message, and if you've done a good job of training, it would probably decide that the message is not spam. Another example: I get lots of messages discussing Cialis, meds, mortgages, etc, and the spam is almost all correctly classified as such, but your message got through, because SpamBayes was able to determine that the despite the presence of these "spammy" terms, your message actually wasn't spam. (That's pretty cool, when you think about it!)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of M. Anne Clark
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 12:56 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Spambayes] IMPORTANT QUESTIONWhy did my tool bar items for SpamBayes disappear?IS there a way to HELP train mine? It sure isn't learning very well.For example; Is there a way to give it certain words like Cialis, meds, mortgage, etc. so it dumps anything containing those into the Junk folder?!(I can't find answers to those ?s in your FAQ, AND I'm not familiar with all the software jargon, either. A simple answer would be most appreciated.)Anne Zoe Clark - WRITER & AUTHOR!Rev. M. Anne ClarkWedding of SoulsOfficiant for Weddings in VT and NHSuper Annie, American Nanny...for peaceful parenting!
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