All my messages go into the Spam folder. Why?

Greg Louis glouis at dynamicro.on.ca
Mon Feb 3 19:05:33 CET 2003


On 20030203 (Mon) at 1250:02 -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote:
> 
>  Hi
> 
> I'm trying to figure out why my mail is going into the Spam folder after
> being run through bogofilter. If you have ideas why it works this way
> please share them with me.
> 
> Here is the relevant information from my rc.procmail and muttrc
> 
> ########################################################################
> rc.procmail:
> 
> ################################################################
> #    Filtering spam with bogofilter                            #
> ################################################################
> 
> #register the tokens in the mail according to  the  bogofilter classification
> :0HBw:
> * ? bogofilter -u -e -p
> Spam

You have run bogofilter with the -e option: exit successfully for
nonspam.  Procmail is looking to perform the action (save to Spam) if
the pipe succeeds.  So this rule sends all your nonspams to Spam.

> 
> :0e
> { EXITCODE=75 HOST }
> 
> # file the mail to spam-bogofilter if it's spam.
> :0:
> * ^X-Bogosity: Yes, tests=bogofilter
> Spam

And this rule picks up the spams and puts them there too.

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