bogofilter-faq [was: Well, it happened]

[Dan Stromberg]

Looks good.  It might not hurt to mention the MUA TLA in there somewhere
in relation to "Existing scripts for fixing registration errors",
possibly even with example programs.

There might also be a place in the FAQ for how to fix registration
errors via evolution, mutt, and other programs (like sample
macros/filters/whatever).

On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 09:02, David Relson wrote:
> Dan,
> 
> I've updated the FAQ with the answer to your question.  You can read it at 
> http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/bogofilter-faq.html.  If you'd be so kind 
> as to read it and provide feedback, that'd be useful to other users and 
> would also be helpful to the project.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> David
> 
> At 11:20 AM 3/13/03, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> >On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 08:08, David Relson wrote:
> > > At 10:55 AM 3/13/03, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> > >
> > > >Sick of base64 spam, I decided to upgrade my bogofilter.
> > > >
> > > >And it's a mess.
> > > >
> > > >My procmail filters are broken (I'm getting more spam than ever), and my
> > > >evolution support is broken (I can't mark a message as spam anymore).  I
> > > >haven't looked at my mutt support yet, but it's probably broken too.
> > > >
> > > >How might these procmail rules need to be changed for the new semantics?
> > > >
> > > >:0HB
> > > >* ? /dcs/packages/bogofilter/bin/bogofilter
> > > >{
> > > >    :0c
> > > >    | /dcs/packages/bogofilter/bin/bogofilter -s
> > > >
> > > >    :0
> > > >    $MAILDIR/bogofilter
> > > >}
> > > >
> > > >:0EHBc
> > > >| /dcs/packages/bogofilter/bin/bogofilter -n
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >My evolution filters use bogofilter -S -l, bogofilter -N and bogofilter
> > > >-u.  How much of this should I expect to need to change?
> > >
> > > Hi Dan,
> > >
> > > Sorry to hear you're having troubles.
> > >
> > > The '-s' and '-n' options have not changed, so the procmail rules 
> > should be
> > > fine.
> > >
> > > The '-S' and '-N' options have become "unregister only" so the evolution
> > > filters will need updating.  "-S" used to mean "move from ham to spam"
> > > which is now stated as "-Ns" meaning "unregister from ham ('-N')" and
> > > "register as spam ('-s')".  Similarly "-N" used to bee "move from spam to
> > > ham" and is nos "-Sn" meaning "unregister from spam ('-S')" and "register
> > > as ham ('-n')".
> > >
> > > So in your evolution filters two option letters will become four, i.e.
> > > replace -S by -Ns and replace -N by -Sn.  (Note:  option letters can be
> > > joined or separated, i.e. "-Ns" can equally well be written as "-N -s".
> >
> >Thanks for your helpful reply.
> >
> >--
> >Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI <strombrg at dcs.nac.uci.edu>
> >
-- 
Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI <strombrg at dcs.nac.uci.edu>

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