[Spambayes] questions about import email for training

[Tony Meyer]

> I also download Python-2.3.5.exe,

Python 2.4 has a much better email package; it would be well worth  
using that.

> Win32all-163.exe

This is *extremely* out-of-date.  You don't actually need it for any  
command-line work with SpamBayes (although whether it is installed  
does effect the default database location), but if you use it for  
something else, you should get an up-to-date version.

> 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.

As Amedee said, it would really help to know what error message you  
got, and you should check that ~/tmp/newham is actually a valid path  
to a ham mailbox (possible if you are using Cygwin, extremely  
unlikely otherwise).

> Could you please tell me how can I import email into the SpamBayes?

Train as ham: sb_filter.py -g < path\to\ham\message

Train as spam: sb_filter.py -s < path\to\spam\message

Are probably the best commands, if you are using messages like the  
ones in the 2005 TREC corpus.  This will use the default values for  
your database.

=Tony.Meyer

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