Wierd bogofilter/procmail thing happening

David Relson relson at osagesoftware.com
Wed Apr 16 13:44:15 CEST 2003


At 12:56 AM 4/16/03, Bob Bernstein wrote:


>David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> let it be known that:
>
> > As a test, you _could_ try scoring the body of the message, rather
> > than the whole message.  I think it's the 'b' flag you'll need for
> > procmail.
>
>'B', n'est-ce pas? <g>
>
>Thanks for this hint. I was not aware of that procmail option. Right now
>I am training bogofilter using Spamassassin, which would it seems to me
>be an ideal case in which to use that 'only pipe the body of the
>message' procmail option. Why should SA's headers find their way to my
>wordlists?
>
>Make sense?

Bob,

There's information in the headers that's useful to bogofilter - stuff like 
domain names and ip addresses.  Having SA's headers in BF's wordlists is 
harmless.  There's enough information in the message's other tokens that a 
few extras from SA won't matter.

David





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