Victor Dewsbery wrote:So I have to enter them on the fly and wait until I pass the threshold. What happens until then? And how does the filter learn the words if I only feed it mail messages wholesale, not word by word?
Nope, when you've activated the Bayesian filter it will fill in those words when receiving Junk, or when you classify a message as good.
Been there, done that, bought the postcard, and there is still no other filter given in the list.
Did you have a look herer?

You can simply deactivate it by unchecking that box or leave it as it was. This filter should be at the end of all your filters.
By the way, since I upped the settings of the "learning Bayesian filters" (junk threshold 0.99, good mail bias 3, junk score 100, good score -100) and reactivated junk filtering, I don't think there has been a false positive (although there have not yet been any junk messages either). So these controls seem to do something (the default settings gave me way over 50% false positives). I'll see if there is any change in the results when I download the overnight messages in the morning.
I agree, you need to play with the settings. If too low, to many spam will pass through. It's not yet ideal, so perhaps that will change.
On the other hand spam techniques do change over time, so it's not easy to get them all.
The status box also claims that there are 18 filters operating, but they are not listed anywhere (so my comments on the missing list of filters above still apply).
That's the filter as in the screenshot.
