Maintaining a snappy bogofilter

[Chris Ditri]

Well, Now that I am back on track, I estimate that I am pushing around 97-98% 
accuracy using the default bogofilter.cf. In my current setup I am receiving 
about 1500 emails a day.  When I did my initial beta-test with bogofilter 
.10.x, I was over 99.9% accurate using default settings, and receiving about 
800 messages a day.

I hope to get that percentage back up, because I plan to go global next week, 
which will be probably around 20,000 or so messages a day (just a guess, but 
we have about 110 more accounts yet who will be using bogofilter soon).

I keep a copy of anything that bogofilter finds as spam, and send out a daily 
report to each user of any emails filtered out as spam. (it lists the subject 
and from line of each email -- not the contents of each mail).  I keep the 
spams for 30 days, then they get the axe.  If something was mis-labeled as 
spam and they want it restored, they have to get with me prior to then.

I figure this coveres my a** just in case bogofilter gets too aggressive.

Chris



On Friday 11 April 2003 11:07 am, Mark Constable wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:45 pm, David Relson wrote:
> > ...
> > make a noticeable difference.  My wordlists contain everything back to
> > Oct 6 when I put bogofilter into production.  I have rebuilt the
> > wordlists several times.  The 0.7/0.8 database format change necessitated
> > one of the changes.  I also rebuilt sometime after switching from Graham
> > to Robinson (since they use different MAX_REPEATS values).
>
> Could you perhaps spare a sentence or two on how effective your setup
> appears to be for you ? (from someone who knows how to tweak bogofilter)
>
> ie; I get about 100 mpd with approx 95% being spam and an average of two
> spams per day in my regular mail and the odd HTML markedup genuine message
> in amongst my spam. Still using 0.8 for maybe 6 months with zero tweaking.
>
> --markc
>
>
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