retraining bogofilter with read and unread emails

[David Relson]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:54:36 -0500
"Eric Wood" <eric at interplas.com> wrote:

> I'm going to upgrade from bogofilter-0.15.8-1 to the latest. I've
> collected a ton of spam colleccted so far thanks to bogofilter.  I'll
> I've got to do it remove a few header lines that were added to each
> email when it landed into the spam account's INBOX.  Then I'll be
> ready to retrain.
> 
> The only thing I don't know is about read/unread flag.  Since I view
> my spam account via IMAP, it knows what I've read and unread.  Where
> is this flag typically stored?  I've compared the mail header before
> and after reading it on the server side and it doesn't change.  So
> IMAP must be store this flag external of the INBOX. Correct?  If so,
> then there's nothing else to fix and I'm ready to retrain.
> 
> thanks,
> -eric wood

Eric,

I can't answer your question about IMAP.  

Experience shows that a line like "IMAP: Read status = yes" that is in
every message results in tokens with scores of 0.5.  Tokens with scores
like that have no effect on the message's spam score.  Moral:  don't
worry.  You should be fine.

David