bogofilter - feedback from client to mail server

[Kevin Coyner]

On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 11:42:51PM -0500, Clint Adams wrote......

> > But what I haven't figured out is a clever way of using similar
> > macros to get that same type of feedback back to bogofilter on the
> > mailserver box.
> 
> You can pipe the messages to a remotely-executed bogofilter instance.
> 
> For example,
> 
> macro index \eS "<enter-command>unset wait_key\n<pipe-entry>ssh
> mailserver.example.com bogofilter -fS \n<enter-command>set
> wait_key\n<delete-message>"

Thanks for the idea!  I've set this up just slightly different:

macro pager X "<enter-command>unset wait_key\n<pipe-entry>ssh -f \
my.mailserver.com bogofilter -S -d /home/kevin/.bogofilter \n \
<enter-command>set wait_key\n<delete-message>"
 
The bogofilter manpage doesn't have a -f argument, but ssh does and I
think it makes sense for this use, so I switched the order just a bit.

[using bogofilter 0.7.5.1]

This seems to be working well as it does feed my spamlist.db, and
theoretically, all users who get their email filtered through bogofilter
on this email server will benefit from that spamlist.db.  Afterall, I
would think spam is not really unique to particular users.

That said, good email is very unique to specific users, so I'm wondering
just how effective bogofilter will be for a group of users, none of
which are continually feeding it 'good emails' to build the goodlist.db?

Is bogofilter really designed to by used by just one user?  Or will it
do pretty good with a well feed spamlist.db but essentially a pretty
thin goodlist.db?

Thanks
Kevin

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