[Spambayes] setup training & filtering set

[Coe, Bob]

I'll point out that you lose no generality by including the two folders as Erik suggests. If you don't like their names or positions in the tree, you can move them. Outlook and Spambayes are smart enough to adjust all references accordingly (or so I've observed).

That said, I'd like to propose the names "Spam" and "Spambiguous" as the default folder names. Besides being sort of cute, the two names will appear in adjacent positions in the folder list. I guess "Junk E-mail" and "Junk Suspects" would too, come to think of it. Oh, well.....

Actually, I'm not sure it's a good idea to use "Junk E-mail" as one of the names. If you have both Spambayes and the Outlook Junk E-mail rule turned on, it won't be obvious which program consigned a message to the folder.

Bob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Sargent [mailto:esargent at americanconsulting.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 3:12 AM
> To: spambayes at python.org
> Subject: RE: [Spambayes] setup training & filtering set
> 
> 
> Mark,
> I just started using the plug-in this week, so my memory is 
> pretty fresh.
> 
> I was also confused that it wasn't turned on at install.
> 
> I would suggest that you set a default of Monitoring to the 
> INBOX folder and turn it on by default.
> 
> I would also recommend that you automatically add a "Junk 
> E-mail" and "Junk Suspects" folder during install and use
> those as the default destination for flagged messages. If
> you get a copy of Outlook 2003 beta2 Technical Refresh,
> Microsoft automatically adds a "Junk E-Mail" folder. Even 
> better, they allow you to right-click the folder and delete
> spam directly from that folder. This would be a cool dovetail
> of features with 2003.
> 
> As for training, I wouldn't mind starting from zero, but it 
> does seem like you could start with a small database of popular
> and unique messages.
> 
> Thank you for your work on this - very cool. I was happy to 
> read about it and even happier that it seems to work!
> 
> Erik