newbie question

[David Relson]

At 02:49 PM 12/5/02, Brian Minton wrote:

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>On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:43:31PM -0500, David Relson wrote:
> > 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.
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>I am actually using 0.9.1

Time to update :-(  When in classification mode, if bogofilter is given a 
message with a second line starting "From ", bogofilter will think that 
it's being given two messages and will complain and exit.

> > 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.
>
>ok, thanks.  Also, does it look at attachments?

If you mean base64, mime, or quoted-printable, the answer is "not yet".  As 
a temporary solution, look at script contrib/bogopass for handling base64.