Bayesian spam filters automatically adapt to the types of spam and good mail you get. They learn whenever you tell them that a message is spam or a wanted piece of email.
This also means that you will achieve the best results when using Bayesian filtering if there are no other filtering mechanisms working against it. For example, the Bayesian filter may have learned that emails with a certain type of attachment are worms (let's treat them as spam here), but a white list says "no!". Or the Bayesian filter knows that your friend likes to use words commonly found in spam. The scoring content filter, which looks at certain keywords, cries "junk!"
Spamihilator comes with a capable Bayesian filter, but it also has a scoring content filter enabled by default. I suggest you turn it off. After a bit of training, this will pay off.
Steps to disable scoring content filters in Spamihilator:
- Click on the Spamihilator tray icon with the right mouse button.
- Select Settings... from the menu.
- Go to the Filter Properties category.
- Make sure Enable Spam-Word-Filter (recommended) is unchecked.
- Click OK.
Spamihilator supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/ Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7 and Windows Mail/Outlook Express/Outlook.
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