Back in June I posted about (relatively) poor performance in catching Spam.
It was obvious from the stats I posted then that I needed to reset my corpus and retrain:
Filtered Mail
8,759 Good Messages
19,105 Spam Messages (69%)
37 Spam Messages Per Day
SpamSieve Accuracy
82 False Positives
467 False Negatives (85%)
98.0% Correct
Corpus
3,150 Good Messages
5,101 Spam Messages (62%)
278,600 Total Words
Rules
12,949 Blocklist Rules
10,072 Whitelist Rules
Showing Statistics Since
1/1/08 9:40 PM
So I did so and now five weeks later here are my new stats:
Filtered Mail
551 Good Messages
1,571 Spam Messages (74%)
45 Spam Messages Per Day
SpamSieve Accuracy
4 False Positives
32 False Negatives (89%)
98.3% Correct
Corpus
351 Good Messages
664 Spam Messages (65%)
100,952 Total Words
Rules
1,777 Blocklist Rules
2,083 Whitelist Rules
Showing Statistics Since
6/10/09 2:35 PM
I moved from 98% to 98.3% correct. Michael stated I should be at or above 99%.
Is there something else I need to do?
Also, I use Entourage 2008. I thought I set up Spamsieve correctly many years ago in an earlier version of Entourage (X I think) using the instructions provided but I still get a fair amount of mail, maybe 1 or two an hour, that goes into my Entourage Junk folder. It gets marked as junk instead of spam. I have retrained the items in the Junk folder as Spam using the Applescripts but even then I still see a few similar “junk” mails ending up there. Is that supposed to happen or do I need to tweak something?