A few possibilities immediately occur to me; there may be others. The first is simply to keep training on the misclassified messages. Sooner or later, you'll probably accumulate enough cues that SpamBayes will classify the messages as you wish. The second is the first on steroids: discard your current training data and train from scratch. It sounds drastic, but SpamBayes is easy to train and learns quickly. You should be getting very good results by the time you've trained on a few dozen messages. A third possibility is to use the SpamBayes Manager to adjust the cutoff for possible spam. If SpamBayes is assigning the offending messages a spam probability close to but above the cutoff, you could adjust the cutoff upward slightly. For example, if SpamBayes typically assigns the messages an 18% spam probability and the possible spam cutoff is 15%, you could adjust the cutoff to 20%. The down side to this approach is that it will affect all messages, and it's possible that you'll get more spam in your inbox. And finally, there's the option of setting up an Outlook rule to move messages from that particular sender to some "safe haven" folder (that is, a folder that SpamBayes is not filtering). SpamBayes attempts to process messages after any Outlook rules have run, so you should be able to squirrel these messages away before SpamBayes classifies them. This is potentially labor-intensive and fragile, and it's somewhat at odds with the good work that SpamBayes is trying to do for you, so I'd make this a last resort. If you find a solution that works for you, it would be a kindness to reply to the list so that your solution will be part of the searchable mailing list archive for future reference.
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted Ressler Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 9:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Spambayes] unmarking spam I am using the latest version of spambayes on windows xp. It works well except that it continues to mark all email, with or without attachments from one particular party as suspected spam. I always click, remove from spam, but every time something comes in from that party it is marked as spam. What can I do? Thanks Ted
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