md5 sums [was: TODO for 1.0]

[David Relson]

Chris,

I don't see the need for bogofilter's knowing a message has already been 
processed.  Some people will take a message that bogofilter incorrectly 
classified and will repeatedly train bogofilter on that message until 
bogofilter gets it right.  Your use of md5sums without flags would make 
those people unhappy (I think).

As an alternate idea, you could do the md5sum calculation/checking in a 
script that controls bogofilter.  An implementation like that could be 
distributed in the "contrib" directory.  If you don't grok my alternate 
idea, let me know and I'll send more detail.

David

At 02:35 PM 1/13/03, Chris Wilkes wrote:

>On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 05:27:19PM -0500, David Relson wrote:
> >
> > So, please use Greg's message (below) as the starting point for a 
> dialog on
> > what's needed for 1.0.  Other ideas are welcomed.  Of greatest value would
> > be people to take on some of the work.  Several items relate to
> > documentation and I wonder if there are any writers out there?
>
>Being new to C coding (I'm a perl guy) I tried my hand at adding in MD5
>functionality into BF and got it pretty much working.  Right now I only
>take the body of the message and calculate the MD5 hash of it.
>
>I see the use in an MD5 of the body as being useful as then you can keep
>an accurate track of if an email has already been seen and when it was
>categorized.  I only use the body as if you bounce the mail back to the
>server for a check the headers should be ignored.
>
>You could move away from the -S and -N switches which un-registered a
>message as one type and re-registered it as another and fold that into
>-u, which automatically registers spam in the right database as you'll
>know if you've seen the mail before.
>
>Let me know if this is any use to the project and I'll try and finalize
>it a bit more.
>
>Chris
>
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