It’s not clear to me what you’re saying the problem is. Is every message going to the Spam mailbox? Do you see the SpamSieve training commands in Mail’s Message menu?
SpamSieve will never put messages from people in your Address Book into the Spam mailbox unless you’ve turned off the address book feature. So my guess is that either your SpamSieve rule in Mail is not called “SpamSieve”, which will cause Mail to move the messages without consulting SpamSieve, or you have some other rule that’s doing this. Regardless, you can use the Open Log command to see whether SpamSieve thought these messages were spam.
the address book pref in spamsieve is ticked, the rule is called SpamSieve - so that appears to be OK
maybe its an apple address book lion upgrade fault?
i am having to add people back to my address book who were previously in there, which may account for them ending up in spam folder
yes
spam is usually around 15-30 messages daily
after the install i had 2500
apple address book is not always even recognising my own email in some instances…
despite the fact that the address appears on my card in the address book app.
i am given the option to add my own address to the address book from the address field. from a message inside the spam folder