I love Spambayes for killing spam.  I'd prefer not to even have to deal with the stuff, but, spam is a fact of life.  I monitor mutiple admin e-mails, so I end up seeing 200-300 spam messages a day.  The base Outlook spam filter simply can't keep up.

Since I'm installing Vista, I went to see if there were any tips or tricks to get Spambayes running on that OS.  Some people have complained that it doesn't work with Outlook 2007, but I was running that setup for the last 3 months under XP without any issues.  This tip shows how to make sure Spambayes will run in Vista.

Basically, what you need to do is run the ICACLS command to bless the USERS group with full access rights to the Spambayes install directory.  In most systems, this directory will be in c:\program files\spambayes .  So, navigate to the parent directory and run

icacls spambayes /grant users:F /T

This means grant users Full rights to the spambayes directory and all subdirectories.