newbie question

[David Relson]

At 02:22 PM 12/5/02, Brian Minton wrote:

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>If I have a bunch of spam messages in a mbox style folder, is it
>a good idea to just do bogofilter -s ~/mail/spam or should I do
>it on a per message basis?
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>thanks,
>Brian

Brian,

Welcome!

As a newbie, you can run lots of experiments without fear of destroying 
months' accumulation of data.  You're in a great place to be :-)

Seriously, make sure you have the newest version 0.9.1.1.  The previous 
release (0.9.1) had some problems that have been corrected.

As your first experiment, run "bogofilter -s < ~/mail/spam" and see what 
happens.  It should say something like "2345 words, 27 messages".  The 
message count is you clue that bogofilter recognizes the different messages 
in the mailbox.  It's not necessary for you to split it up.

If you really want to split it up, use the "formail" command.

David