[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Dave> I know that; I meant the technical implications. In particular, I > Dave> asked: > > >> > I know spambayes keeps a database; when I delete already-trained > >> > emails from my xxx-training folders does it forget everything about > >> > those messages and rebuild the database using the other messages as > >> > though from scratch, or is some of the information about those > >> > deleted messages retained? > > Sorry. Yes, when a message is "untrained" the database forgets about it > completely (message count is decremented, all token counts adjusted > down).
And deleting a messgae from the training set will cause it to be "untrained" at the next training? > > >> I know this won't help you with the imap filter, however... > > Dave> Why not? > > I don't use the imap filter. I presume it has its own way of managing your > hams and spams. It doesn't sound different to me. There's a ham training mailbox and a spam training mailbox. > >> I use the train-to-exhaustion script in the contrib directory which > >> helps keep my ham:spam ratio tractable.... > > Dave> Can that procedure be applied to my IMAP folders? > > In theory I suppose it can. The ham and spam mailboxes are opened using > mboxutils.getmbox() which presumes to be fairly format agnostic but I don't > know if it will work with IMAP folders. I see no mention of IMAP at all in > mboxutils.py. I suppose this might be a case of "patches cheerfully > accepted". :-) :/ -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
