This subject was discussed quite a bit in April. If you're interested, look for messages with "Feature Request" in the subject in the archives (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/spambayes/2005-April/thread.html#16790 ).
Assuming you're running Outlook (and most other modern mail clients), you can set up rules that have the effect of whitelisting people in your address book. If you configure background filtering on the SpamBayes Manager Advanced tab, SpamBayes strives to let Outlook do any rule processing on messages before classifying them. You could set up a rule that moves whitelist messages to a folder called "Whitelist", for instance. As long as you don't tell SpamBayes to process messages in that folder, it'll leave them alone. This is a simple if inelegant approach. More elegant approaches are possible, at the cost of complexity. A few possibilities are mentioned in the archive messages referred to above. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenny Pitt > Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 2:30 PM > To: 'Big Max' > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Spambayes] [spambayes-dev] address book > > Questions about the use of SpamBayes are better asked on the > "[email protected]" mailing list. The > "[email protected]" mailing > list is primarily for issues regarding the development of SpamBayes. > > Big Max wrote: > > Spambayes does not pay attention to my address book email > addresses and > > mark as spam mail that should not as they come from friends. > > Correct. SpamBayes does not implement any form of > whitelisting, either from > your address book or from a custom list. Please see FAQ 6.6: > http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/faq.html#why-don-t-you-add-wh > itelisting-bla > cklisting-to-spambayes > > > How can I train Spambayes to accept as Ham all emails > coming from anybody > > in my address book ? > > You cannot tell SpamBayes in one shot that any mail from > anyone in your > address book is ham. However, if you continue to train > individual messages > that SpamBayes doesn't get right, then it will quickly learn > to recognize > all of the good mail. In addition, it will learn to > recognize spam messages > even if they claim to come from one of the people in your > address book. > > -- > > Kenny Pitt _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
