spamicity question

[David Relson]

At 10:37 PM 3/5/03, Brian Minton wrote:

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>I recently got a spam (one that I have been getting for quite a
>while, and bogofilter has been successfully blocking) in my
>inbox.  This struck me as strange, so I looked at the headers,
>and found this header :
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>X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.938724, version=0.11.1
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>So my question is this.  How can a message have that high of
>spamicity and not be counted as spam?  I am pretty sure my normal
>cutoff is about 0.53


Brian,

Sounds like you have a bad value for spam_cutoff.  Try using the "-qv" 
options to run the query_config() function and display the parameters 
bogofilter is using.  To see bogofilter's default parameters, run 
"bogofilter -C -qv" (which will _not_ read any config file).  Run 
"bogofilter -qv" to see the parameters _after_ the config file has been read.

0.11.1 is doing a more thorough job of validating config file parameters no 
longer accepts an 'f' at the end of a double precision value.  This _could_ 
be the problem.  Options "-x c -v" will display the level 1 debug messages 
for the config file processing code.  Options "-x c -vv" will display level 
2 messages, etc.

I've started the 0.11.1.1 build which has some refinements in the verbosity 
levels for the config file code.  Grab it tomorrow (Thursday) and run the 
tests.

If the above techniques don't reveal the problem, post the output of the 
above commands to the list.

David