[Spambayes] Spam problem

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On Tue, September 16, 2008 15:29, skip at pobox.com wrote:
>
>     Amedee> If you really, really want that old emails are also filtered,
>     Amedee> you will have to switch from Outlook Express to Outlook.
>
> You might be able to (read: I don't really know, because I don't use
> Windows
> or OE) forward your old mail to yourself.  I suspect you'd have to do it
> one-by-one though.
>
> Another possibility is to export your OE mail to some more-or-less
> standard
> file format (like Unix mailbox format) and then run one of the other
> standalone SpamBayes tools like sb_mboxtrain.py on the result, giving it
> the
> same configuration you'd feed to OE, then slurp the result back into OE.

In general, people who use OE are not very technical. For you and me,
Skip, this would be a simple matter. But not for everyone. Sometimes its
just simpler to say "no, cannot be done". It saves a lot of frustration.

> Or you could switch to Thunderbird (more like Outlook, but free and open
> source) then use ThunderBayes.

Argh. I should have written that in the first place.