Existing users, 
By mistake, I tried to train Spam Sieve on a folder containing thousands of mesasges. Since this program has no progress report and no way to stop the process, I had to force quit Entourage to stop it.
When I reopened Entourage it took 10 minutes to open my message database. I found out that Spam Sieve had created thousand of "Uncertain Junk" categories without even asking for confirmation... THAT'S BAD.
The unpleasant part is also that Entourage has no way to select many categories for deletion, so you have to do them one by one, and it takes about 4 minutes each time...
Spam catching seemed to be good though, until this mess happened. So maybe good if used with extreme caution and programmer should improve the interface.
SpamSieve
Bayesian spam filter for most email clients.
Version: 2.7.7
Use with caution
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: mir() Sunday, March 05 2006 @ 10:23 PM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: NO
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Use with caution - michaeltsai
You can interrupt the SpamSieve training process (and, in general, any AppleScript) from within Entourage by typing Command-Period.SpamSieve asks Entourage to create a category called "Uncertain Junk" if no category with that name already exists. Unfortunately, sometimes Entourage says there's no such category even when there is, in which case duplicate categories could be created. SpamSieve is skeptical about believing Entourage and tries other ways of to checking whether there is an "Uncertain Junk" category, so that it will only create one if there isn't. From what I've seen, this is always successful <i>if</i> you have updated Entourage (either version 10 or version 11) to the latest maintenance release.
If you already have duplicate categories, you can delete them by running this AppleScript:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage" delete (every category whose name is "Uncertain Junk")
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Monday, March 06 2006 @ 07:02 AM PST