Where can I see the junk mail rules? TB is junking emails from respectable sources. Poor performance > low level of trust > can't trust "black box" training.
Logging is no help. I don't need the log to see that an email has inappropriately been labelled as junk - I need to know why, and I need to see the specific rules it's using. I can edit my own rules, but can't see where I can view the junk filter rules. If the engine is unreliable, then trying to train it up is a huge waste of time. Having to reset and start again, after wasting time training it, and having no guarantee it won't do it all over again - that's not just annoying, it's completely unacceptable.
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If the engine is unreliable, then trying to train it up is a huge waste of time.
This reply does not answer the question, which was: if I don't trust the adaptive filter, where can I see the rules it is applying to incoming mail?
The Junk Mail Controls page specifically does not answer this question. It says that the controls are located in 2 places, neither of which show the rules in effect at any time. Implicitly, TB is expecting the user to take it all on trust that the Bayesian filter will start to behave (eventually) if you categorise enough incoming mails. However, like adaptive filters everywhere in the computer industry, it is prone to unexpected behaviour. So a user's natural response is to ask: if I categorise a few emails, can I see what changes have been made to the rule set? Do they make sense? Otherwise there's no way I'm going to spend weeks training the thing, only to find it continues to be unreliable. I would point out that full training is no guarantee it won't do something you don't want. In my case, a whole lot of newsletters from professional societies just disappeared without warning, apparently because they were close to a decision level and some additional training tipped them all over the line. This is just unacceptable. I am aware that adaptive filters and spam rules often mislabel newsletters, because by their nature they are mass mail-outs, but from certain sources you definitely want to keep them. You can whitelist the sources but this is idiotic - you are only doing this to stop the Bayesian filter from misbehaving. It's like speech recognition software and OCR: it's nearly always more work tidying up after using the "helpful utility" than it is to do transfer the info manually. In TB, the user has no way of looking at how sensible and how robust the rule set is at any point. I think it's useless and have returned to manual junking as needed.
This reply does not answer the question, which was: if I don't trust the adaptive filter, where can I see the rules it is applying to incoming mail?yes it does answer that question, but in a round about way. There are no rules in the way yours asking to look at them.
Looking to the Bayes' theorem proposed by the Rev Thomas Bayes in the 18th Century. and gaining a true understand if the theorem and it's applications in computing . In this case as a Baysian learning filter is not something I profess to have more than a cursory knowledge of. If you want the rules explained in detail you first will probably need a masters degree in statistics or probability. There is nothing as simple as if the sender is XXXX then delete. There are no preconceived bad words like viagra. Your chasing your tail looking for a list of "rules"
Personally I find the filter so good I rarely check my junk folder, but it does have years of my choices to learn from. If you have a sender that constantly ends up in junk because their mail is spammy simply add them to your address book. Nothing in the selected address book/s is treated as spam. Once the filter has learned that is. As it is a learning filter it learns over time from your choices both is and is not spam. These days I white list as the filter is doing it's job nicely and I do not want to confuse what it has learned and go retrograde by constantly marking a sender as not spam. It is spam, just spam I want to see.
Tools menu (alt+T) > account settings and select the junk setting for the account to specify address books other than the personal address book for white listing.
I think all this information and more is included in the link you were provided. SO your question was answered. Just not with something you wanted to hear.