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SpamBayes is a tool used to segregate unwanted mail (spam) from the mail
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you want (ham). Before SpamBayes can be your spam filter of choice you
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need to train it on representative samples of email you receive. After
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it's been trained, you use SpamBayes to classify new mail according to
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its spamminess and hamminess qualities.
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When SpamBayes filters your email, it compares each unclassified message
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against the information it saved from training and makes a decision
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about whether it thinks the message qualifies as ham or spam, or if it's
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unsure about how to classify the message. It then passes this
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information on to your mail client. Unless you are using IMAP or
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Outlook, this means it adds a header to each message,
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X-SpamBayes-Classification: spam|ham|unsure. You can then filter on this
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header, to file away suspected spam into its own mail folder for
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example. IMAP and Outlook both have the capacity to do the filtering
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themselves, so the header is not necessary.
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