registering spammails

[Oleksandr Moskalenko]

Yes, I run "bogofilter -S" on every spam message I get from within mutt.
Should I change it to "bogofilter -s"? I remember reading a note on the
web about some bugs in the bogofilter that made using "-N" and "-S"
undesirable and where there was a warning to use "-n" and "-s" instead.
Has that part been worked out by now? Is it safe to use "-S" and "-N".

Alex.

P.S. I just piped a message through "-S" and now .MSG_COUNT shows

                       spam   good
.MSG_COUNT                1   1334

So it looks like it was good to start from scratch whatever was the
cause. I think I might have inadvertently run A LOT of messages through
"bogofilter -N" some time ago when I was sorting through one of my
mailing list mailboxes, tagging tens of messages at once, and saving
them elsewhere as the 's' keymap was bound to the command above. It
couldve hit the spamlist.db hard or something of that kind, couldn't it?

Alex.

* Fred Yankowski <fred at ontosys.com> [2003-02-04 12:07:21 -0600]:

> On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 12:42:23PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote:
> > bogoutil -w . .MSG_COUNT
> >                        spam   good
> > .MSG_COUNT                0   1973
> 
> Did you ever run "bogofilter -s" on any messages?  That's the only way
> (ignoring the -u and -S options) that messages get recorded as spam.
> 
> A common procedure to is prime the bogofilter database by running
> "bogofilter -s" on a collection of saved spam messages and "bogofilter
> -n" on a similar collection of good messages.  Then you need to run
> bogofilter with -s or -n to correct the database for any
> false-negative or false-positive assessments as spam, respectively,
> that occur as bogofilter evaluates later messages.
> 
> > Also, "bogoutil -d spamlist.db | less" lets me see that there are a lot
> > of 'good' words in there. Should I remove it and start building the
> > spamlist.db anew?
> 
> Maybe.  Note that a word will appear in the spam database if it
> appears even once in any message that you record as spam.
> 
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