- Confirm the plugin is installed:
Start Outlook, select your Inbox, then look at your Outlook
toolbar. Just below the standard Toolbar, you should see a new
toolbar with a SpamBayes
dropdown button. If this button appears, then the plugin is
correctly installed and ready to use. If the button does not
appear, please see the
troubleshooting guide.
- Create Spam and Usure folders
Use the normal Outlook functions to create two new folders. These
can be named anything you like, and can appear anywhere in the folder
hierarchy you choose - however, it is recommended you call them
something like Spam and Possible Spam.
- Manually create initial training data
Go through your Inbox, Deleted Items
and any other folders likely to have spam, and move as much as possible
to the new Spam folder you just created. Try and get as much Spam
out of your inbox as possible, as your inbox will form the initial set
of good messages we train on. Don't worry too much about missing
one or two spam - the system is likely to find them for you as we
rescore your existing email.
- Configure and Train SpamBayes
Now we have our folders setup with some initial training data, we can
configure the plugin. From the SpamBayes
button on the toolbar select SpamBayes
Manager... This will display the main dialog, as shown to
the right.
- Select Train Now, and the training dialog, also shown to
the right will appear. The Inbox will be the default for good
messages, so you need to select your new Spam folder as the source of
junk messages. Ensure that Score
messages after training is selected, so we can see how effective
our Inbox cleanup was.
- Click on the Train Now button, and a progress indicator
will be displayed as your messages are trained, and another progress
indicator as they are scored. Close the training window to return
to the SpamBayes window.
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The SpamBayes Manager dialog
The training dialog
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