Bayesian SPAM Filtering
One of the most important features of SPAM protection in your email
reader is Bayesian mail filtering. This page hopes to show you exactly
how to make this powerful tool help you keep your inbox clear of SPAM
using Chaos Intellect.
What is Bayesian filtering?
Bayesian spam filters mathematically evaluate email message content
to determine the probability that it is spam. Bayesian filters are
adaptable and can learn to identify new patterns of spam by analyzing
incoming email. This process basically works by creating two exhaustive
lists of words (Bad AND Good) and then mathematically
analyzing each incoming mail message to determine whether it's contents
are more likely to be SPAM or not.
How do I start using it?
1. Enable Bayesian filters
Go to Tools and Mail Filters. The last tab on the right should say
Bayesian. Go to that tab and check the box to enable the
Bayesian filtering.
Because Bayesian logic is based on learning YOUR patterns, you need to
help educate it. Our email client needs to know messages that are both GOOD and BAD in
order to decide what each new incoming message might be. Your individual results should become more
and more accurate over time as it learns your preferences.
2. Teach it to recognize the good
Once you have enabled Bayesian filtering, we highly recommend that
you click the AUTOSCAN button. Doing so will randomly select messages
that are located in any subfolder under your SAVED MESSAGES folder.
Since you probably only saved messages you thought were GOOD, this
jumpstarts the learning process by teaching the program what you
consider to be GOOD messages.
3. Restart the program
Upon restarting our software, you should see a new folder on the
navigational tree named PREDICTIVE SPAM. This folder is the location
that any incoming mail will be automatically deposited that is
considered SPAM. We do this so you can review the messages to ensure
that they are indeed SPAM.
4. Teach it to recognize the bad
Training your Bayesian filters is easy. By right clicking on a
message in the main screen message list you can either select one of two
related menu items.
- Bayesian Classify as SPAM -
Typically select this option only when a message has been sent into
the INBOX folder, but is a message you want to teach our learning
database is
SPAM or bad. It will learn that this type of content is bad and it
will put this message in the TRASH for you.
- Bayesian Classify as NOT SPAM -
Typically select this option only when a message has been
incorrectly sent into your PREDICTIVE SPAM folder. It will re-train
your software to believe this message should have been good and will
automatically move this message back to your INBOX folder for you.
Please Note: You do not have to classify items that are
already arriving in the correct folders. The fact that a piece of junk
mail correctly arrives in the PREDICTIVE SPAM folder indicates that the
teaching that you have provided is already working.
Can I override the filters for certain email addresses?
Whitelist
If an sender's email address is found in your address book, it is
automatically Whitelisted, which is to say that it is considered to be
good no matter what, and is placed in your inbox. You can also
right-click on a message and add the sender's email address to the
Whitelist, such as if you want to subscribe to a mailing list of some
kind without necessarily adding the email address into your formal
address book. The main thing to get out of the White List is that these
addresses will be protected and will override any other mail filters
that might otherwise take this message out of your INBOX.
Blacklist
Blacklisting is the opposite. If there is a particular sender that
you can't get away from, that has content in their messages which is
very similar to your good messages, but you want to get rid of anyway,
you can Blacklist them and have any mail sent from the sender's
particular email address is sent straight to your TRASH. The
Bayesian filtering is based on content, not email addresses, so this may
be the best way to get messages that say good things, but are from the
wrong people, into your TRASH and out of your INBOX.
Download free trial!
One more thing - we give you a free trial of our software so you can
see it perform in the real world before you plunk down any of your (or
your company's) hard-earned cash. So if you don't already have Chaos
Intellect, you can try out these mail filtering tools for yourself and see
how it works before you pay!
Download the Chaos Intellect fully functional trial version by clicking here!
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