That's because SpamBayes does not pay special attention to the sender's address. All the content of the message, including the sender, is ranked according to the probability that it is spam, based on your classification of earlier messages. The probability that the entire message is spam is calculated from those rankings.
So, if messages from friends are getting classified as spam, that's because SpamBayes thinks they look like spam, based on the training you have done. The usual thing to do is to tell SpamBayes when it has misclassified something (by dragging the message to the correct folder or using the Spam or Not Spam button; eventually you'll provide enough hints that SpamBayes will correctly classify messages. With Outlook, you can also set up a rule to move messages from specific senders. You'd want to move them to a folder that SpamBayes is not set up to filter. But, of course, if a spammer sends you a message that pretends to be from a friend, you won't get SpamBayes' benefit. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pam Stark Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Spambayes] Not receiving good mail System is locking out a 'good' friends messages. I cannot see where to go to take them off the spam list. Nowhere in the documentation is there a reference to doing this. _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
