Bogofilter inconsistent spam_subject_tag

Przemyslaw Brojewski przemek at my.tenbit.pl
Fri Aug 1 14:10:01 CEST 2003


On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 09:51:11PM -0700, Rob Tanner wrote:
> --On Thursday, July 31, 2003 08:12:35 PM -0400 David Relson
> <relson at osagesoftware.com> wrote:
> 
> > At 08:04 PM 7/31/03, Rob Tanner wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> Here's a real oddity.  Bogofilter is configured to add the subject tag
> >> '[SPAM]' to any message it classifies as SPAM.  What I have started to
> >> notice is that sometimes while it marks the message as SPAM in the
> >> X-Bogosity header, it fails to add spam subject tag.
> >> 
> >> Is this a known issue, or if not, any ideas as to where to look to start
> >> to debug it?
> > 
> > Hi Rob,
> > 
> > Something new!  I'd start with "grep spam_subject_tag src/*.c" and see
> > where that leads.  Enum value RC_SPAM is another indicator for where to
> > look.
> > 
> > Can you post the Subject: and X-Bogosity: lines from one of the messages?
> > 
> 
> I'll start with the easiest part first -- some examples:
> 
> SUBJECT: Free Vacation and Airfare
> X-Bogosity: Yes, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.999887
> 
> SUBJECT: Get 12 CDs for the Price of 1
> X-Bogosity: Yes, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=1.000000
> 
> I am running bogofilter version 0.13.6.2 on a RedHat 9 system.

Wait a minute, heres a bit from CHANGES-0.13:

0.13.7.3 2004-07-16
...
	2003-07-03
...
	* checks for "subject:" are now case insensitive.

Looks like you are just running too old version of bogofilter
to recognize SUBJECT: lines.

Przemyslaw Brojewski.




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