Hi all I’m on Spamseive 2.9.52 and Mac OS Monterey (12) using Apple Mail.
After years of using SS I accidentally trained a whole lot of emails as spam instead of good. I couldn’t find a way to undo what I did, so ended up spending ages going through the spam folder and manually sorting these messages out again, marking the good email as good, and leaving the actual spam as-is.
But I just noticed that applying rules to those emails once they were back in my inbox still filtered hundreds back to Spam.
I there a way to remedy this? Do I just need to keep at it and watch my Spam folder like a hawk for a while? Would I be better off starting from scratch with my corpus?
Something is wrong because if you just trained those exact messages as good, SpamSieve should definitely know that they are not spam. I suggest that you look in the Log window:
Does it say Trained: Spam (Manual) and then Trained: Good (Manual) for the ones that you mistakenly trained as spam?
Does it say Predicted: for those messages when you applied the rules?
Thanks so much for the reply Michael, I thought it was behaving again, but I just had another episode where 1000s of old emails (including VIPs) moved into my spam folder too. I think rather than trying to dig around too much, I still might just start from scratch with the training, as I guess something has got corrupted. Thanks for the awesome program in any case. It’s been a boon for the years.
I still think this might not even be related to SpamSieve, because it doesn’t go through old messages on its own. I strongly recommend looking in the log, as discussed above, before starting from scratch.
