[Spambayes] questions about import email for training

[l33.chen at student.qut.edu.au]

Hello,

I am a student and plan to attend TREC(Text Retrieval Conference) this year. I want to enhance a spam filtering system by providing some extra function. I choose SpamBayes as filter and try to add some other function for my experiment.

Now I want to import the training data to SpamBayes for my experiment. My training email corpora are downloaded from TREC website http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~gvcormac/treccorpus/

I keep the file in my E:\ drive. I also download Python-2.3.5.exe, Win32all-163.exe and SpamBayes1.0.4.exe.

I looked at your company's website and find there's information about how to import by using command line.(4.4 in frequent asked questions).I input command(python sb_mboxtrain.py -g ~/tmp/newham -s ~/tmp/newspam ) into the Windows comand prompt,it doesn't work. Later I key this command into Python2.3.5 command line,still can't work.

Could you please tell me how can I import email into the SpamBayes? Could you please be detail your steps since I am not quite familar with command line environment.

Thanks lot! Hope to hear you soon!

Lin Chen