BUG - bogoutil (version 0.11.1.6)

[David Relson]

Hello Michele,

Welcome to bogofilter.  The "-p" was intended modify the behavior of 
"-w".  "-w" requires a directory name and "-p" doesn't take an 
argument.  Given these constraints, the proper command usage is "bogofilter 
-p -w directory word1 word2" or "bogofilter -w directory -p word1 word2".

The code is doing what was planned, but the documentation is clearly _not_ 
clear.

Thinking about the structure of the command line, it'd probably be better 
if "-p directory" was allowed.  Certainly it'd be a little simpler for user.

By the way, the best way to know what's happening with bogofilter it to 
subscribe to the mailing list.  You can do that by sending a message to 
bogofilter at aotto.com with subject "subscribe".  The mailing list is also 
the best place to report problems.

Hope this helps.

David

P.S. I'll be changing the documentation and/or the code.  Thanks for 
spotting the problem and reporting it.

At 12:38 PM 4/5/03, Michele Bariani wrote:


>Hello there,
>
>I didn't found a specific address for bug notifications so I'm writing to all
>the authors, hope that's ok.
>Looks to me like -p option for bogoutil cannot be used as described in the 
>man
>page:
>
>    $ bogoutil -w -p ~/.bogofilter mike
>    No such directory.
>
>while it works swapping the options:
>
>    $ bogoutil -p -w ~/.bogofilter mike
>                           spam    good  Gra prob  Rob prob
>    mike                     17      14  0.878140  0.832719
>
>Hope that helps, and thanks for your great work.
>
>Cheers,
>Michele
>
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