Clean the database from non-spam mails?

[David Relson]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 15:21:58 +0100
Johannes Klug <derjoi at gmx.net> wrote:

> On Wednesday 03 December 2003 02:00, Tom Anderson wrote:
> > If you have the original hams that were registered...
> > bogofilter -N ham.mbx
> >
> > Tom
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> I do have the original hams, but they are in the same maildir as all
> the newer ones were.
> 
> man bogofilter says:
> "If '-N' is used for a message that wasn't registered as non-spam, the
> counts will still be decremented."
> 
> So if I just took all the messages that are in my inbox and gave them
> to bogofilter with -N, the counts still would be decremented.
> 
> Man, just deleting the unwanted database-file would have been sooo
> easy :)
> 
> Johannes

I'll admit it -- having separate ham and spam database files makes
deletion easier.  May I ask why you want to do this?

I'll add an entry to the FAQ to cover this.