wordlists and lexer

[David Relson]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:12:38 +0100
Matthias Andree wrote:

> David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> writes:
> 
> > The message-count format, a.k.a. BOGO_LEX format, was created to
> > speed up testing by putting shifting the cost of database
> > open/lookup to a pre-processing pass.  Messages that have passed
> > through a MDA always have a message header (with keyword, colon, and
> > value), don't they?
> 
> That depends on the normalization that the MDA performs. After an MTA
> such as Postfix, Sendmail or possibly Exim or Courier,
> yes. fetchmail/getmail from a corrupt mailbox directly thru MDA, not
> sure we have a header.
> 
> > Such messages don't trigger BOGO_LEX mode.  As part of bogofilter's
> > parsing, its lexer can only enter BOGO_LEX mode if the first input
> > line is in the proper format.
> 
> Good, this means a lot less work for us and no urge to get 0.92.9 out
> (I've still prepared a new release on the bogofilter-0_92_8 branch
> with the older collect.c fix as of yesterday and Berkeley DB 4.3
> support).

Berkeley DB 4.3 support is a good thing!  We'll get 0.92.9 out if/when
it's necessary.  With luck, transactions will be beat into submission
and we won't need the retro fix.

Ciao,

David