[cbiedl at gmx.de: Bug#264502: bogofilter: '-y date' option underdocumented and not fool-proof]

[David Relson]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 09:52:42 -0400
Clint Adams wrote:

> ----- Forwarded message from Christoph Biedl <cbiedl at gmx.de> -----
> 
> Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 08:06:57 +0200
> From: Christoph Biedl <cbiedl at gmx.de>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
> Subject: Bug#264502: bogofilter: '-y date' option underdocumented and
> not fool-proof
> 
> Package: bogofilter
> Version: 0.92.4-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> bogofilter has an '-y date' option to use the given date instead of
> current time for registering an e-mail.
> 
> Two problems:
> 1. This option is badly documented i.e. a description of a valid date
> format is missing. 
> 
> Please add a simple example in the manpage for clarification
> e.g. '-y 20040809'.

Both the man page and the online help for bogoutil now include a
statement that the date is in format YYYYMMDD.


> 2. Using the %Y-%m-%d date format does NOT generate an error message
> but is parsed incorrectly. This is annoying after training a huge
> collection of on a per-day base but learning afterwards that the
> messages have been considered to be back somewhat in 1999.

Bogoutil now checks the date.  If the date is less than 19990000, 
bogoutil now says "Date format for '-y' option is YYYYMMDD"


> Please: bogofilter should either understand for date formats or
> complain about date formats it does not understand.

Thank you for your high quality bug report.  It's always useful to have
output showing the problem and how to repeat it.  The fixes are now in
CVS and will be in the next release.

Regards,

David