Idea for improving the learning stage

[Andrew]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 19:11:21 -0400,
David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> wrote:

> Since bogofilter normally classifies a message before the MUA is used
> to view it, your message had me puzzled for a while.


Hi David, surely bogofilter does its check before the user sees the 
messages, but keep in mind that my idea only concerns the process of 
manually flagging the individual emails, i.e. when we "teach" bogofilter 
by calling it with the -s or -n option.


> After thinking a bit your idea seems more reasonable.  Assuming your 
> MUA can pass the read/unread state to a script, then the script would 
> be able to translate the MUA flag to a bogofilter training flag.  This 
> seems to be a technique that could be implemented for a MUA, rather 
> than a capability needing a change to bogofilter.


The client certainly needs the ability to pass message status, but 
bogofilter should then use the status to decide whether to "learn" by 
looking only at the subject line (unread message == the giveaway is in 
the subject) or by ignoring the subject and looking at the message body 
(if the user needed to open the message to understand it was spam).

Cheers,
Andrew