Idea for improving the learning stage

[David Relson]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 10:14:56 +0000 (UTC)
Andrew wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:33:42 -0400,
> David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> wrote:
> 
> > The intelligence you suggest belongs in a script driving bogofilter.
> > With claws-mail I have two actions "classify as spam" and "classify
> > as ham".  These actions forward the messages to special addresses
> > on my mail server and procmail spots the messages and passes them
> > to a reclassify script.  The reclassify script looks at the
> > forwarding address and the message's X-Bogosity line then invokes
> > bogofilter with appropriate flags.  For example, since "X-Bogosity:
> > Spam" and "forward as ham" indicates a "False Positive" bogofilter
> > gets run with "-S -n".  Note that all the decision making is
> > _outside_ of bogofilter.
> 
> 
> So how could an external script tell bogofilter to "ignore the
> subject" or "ignore the body" ?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Andrew

Bogofilter doesn't have such capabilities, nor does it need them.  If
you want part of a message to be excluded, a copy of the message needs
to be created without that part.  Tools that you should consider are
formail, awk, and grep.  

formail is a very powerful tool for working with email messages.  Read
it man page. 

grep can be used for simple exclusion tasks.  For example, to exclude
only the subject: 

   grep -v ^Subject: < message | bogofilter ...

HTH,

David