setting initial spamlist

[David Relson]

At 10:19 AM 3/27/03, tsh at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk wrote:

>Hi all,
>If I prime my bogofilter tables with a single spam message (no 'ham' messages)
>and then run the same spam message through the filter, how come it isnt
>flagged as spam?

Hi Terry,

You've encountered a pathological case.  The wordlists have a special 
.MSG_COUNT token which is used to compute percents when figuring the spam 
score.  If either wordlist is empty, its .MSG_COUNT value is zero and this 
causes a numerical error.

I discovered the problem a week or so back, but didn't think anyone would 
encounter the problem.  Once again, I underestimated human creativity.

You can an equally incorrect result by using a ham classification.  If you 
want more info on how bogofilter is determining the classification, try 
running it with "-vv" and again with "-vvv".

I'll submit the patch to CVS today.

David