[Spambayes] Thank you for the time you save me.

[Coe, Bob]

As I recall, one of the Spambayesians mentioned a few weeks ago that you can, in fact, copy an Outlook user's Spambayes configuration, including the db, to another user and it should work. The assertion included some squishy wording to the effect that some files might have to be recreated, so I  haven't had the guts to try it yet. I'd like it if somebody could publish a clear description of just what you have to do.

That said, it's not difficult (in the Outlook version) to at least incorporate a standard set of training messages. I maintain a corpus of 1500 recent spam messages that we use to kickstart new users. All the installer has to do is open a special .pst file with the sample messages in it, copy the messages to the new user's spam folder, and start the training. Seems to work well.

Bob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Hart [mailto:KHart at BasicBS.Com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 12:19 PM
> To: spambayes at python.org
> Subject: [Spambayes] Thank you for the time you save me.
> 
> 
> Having used SpamBayes for some time, I feel good that it has been
> sufficiently "trained".  Between Friday 8/15 @ 5:00pm and Monday 8/18
> @ 8:30am I received 442 e-mail's.  Of these, I only looked at 6.
> SpamBayes saves me hours each week.  Time that would have previously
> been spent sorting through spam.  Thank you.
> 
> I have two requests;
> 
> 1. Under Define Filters, give me the ability to delete Certain Spam.
> 
> 2. Give me the ability to merge another SpamBayes db into my db.
> Myself & another user in our office use & appreciate SpamBayes.  A
> third user would like to use the program.  I don't want the new user
> to go through the month or so of training.  I want to install
> SpamBayes on the third users computer & then merge my db into that
> new users db.