change pulldown on reclassify to 3 boxes

ease our pain by changing the 2 click and mouse movement requirement to 1 click and no extra movement on reclassify on History page

The HISTORY page allows you to reclassify more than one message at a time. After you have used the drop-down list to select the correct bucket for the messages which have not been correctly classified you can click the nearest "Reclassify" button (at the top or bottom of the column) to reclassify all of those messages in one operation (e.g. you can select 3 as 'spam' and 5 as 'good' then click "Reclassify").

I am needing to teach about 200 corrections per day ... only use a couple buckets (good & spam)

If you only have two buckets then I am surprised at this number of reclassifications. My experience, with one 'spam' bucket and 6 others for good mail, showed that only 21 messages had to be reclassified in the first 1,000 messages. After receiving a total of 4,000 messages I found that only 36 had had to be reclassified, giving an accuracy of 99.1% over those 4,000 messages.

What are the current statistics shown on the BUCKETS page? The important values include:

• Messages classified
• Classification errors
• Accuracy
• For each bucket:
  • classification count
  • distinct words

If you have just started using POPFile did you follow the training advice given at the top of the HISTORY page?

When you first start using POPFile you MUST reclassify some messages to each of the buckets you defined when you installed POPFile. If you only have a 'spam' bucket and a 'good' bucket you must reclassify some messages to both of these buckets, otherwise POPFile will be unable to classify new mail properly (if you only reclassify mail as 'spam' then POPFile will not know what 'good' mail looks like).

Brian

See also:

How long will it take until POPFile will reach a decent accuracy?

What variables affect 'good' statistical ratings?