Jeff Portwine wrote: > Hmm.. I don't quite understand this. At my company, we forward any > spam that gets through to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and any ham marked as spam to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... this was set up long ago before I even started > working here and the spam filter worked really well. Recently our > bayes database was broken and I ended up clearing it and retraining it > with old spam and ham. Since that time a lot of spams that were > getting through STOPPED getting through after a couple of days of > forwarding them to the spam address... and I haven't seen any false > spams. So it seems like it does work for us, but you're saying it > shouldn't ?
Correct. It shouldn't work very well. Also if your users are only or mostly forwarding spam, SA's bayes is going to have a bayes bias that all messages forwarded by your mail clients are spam, regardless of content.
