Bogofilter 0.11.2 config questions

[jerry]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:39:06PM -0400, David Relson wrote:
> Hello Jerry,
> X-Bogosity: Unsure, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.500000, version=0.11.2
> 
> Welcome to the list.
> 
> 
> A correction to your terminology:  since bogofilter's purpose is to detect 
> spam, a classification as spam is considered a "positive".  Thus, a false 
> positive is when a ham message is classified as spam and a false negative 
> is when spam is classified as ham.

I have a hard time with this terminolgy, thanks for the
clarification.


> Rather than just tell us that bogofilter's getting the classification 
> wrong, could you tell us the scores it's giving?
> 
> 
> The name of the "stats_in_header" is a bit deceptive.  The spam header 
> line, a.k.a. the X-Bogosity line, belongs in the message header.  If you 
> use the "-vv" or "-vvv" flags, additional statistics will be added to the 
> message.  The config option controls where they'll be put.
> 
> The X-Bogosity line sometimes isn't put in the header because of a 
> malformed header.  The RFC says that a header ends with an empty line, 
> specifically a CR-LF combo (since emails are delivered with 
> both).  Sometimes there's a seemingly empty line at the end of the header 
> which actually contains whitespace.  Very recently, bogofilter was changed 
> to accept these lines as end of header lines.
> 
> I encourage you to download and use bogofilter-0.13.5.  It's due to be 
> promoted to "stable" tomorrow (barring major problems).  It has improved 
> parsing that enables it to do a much better job of classifying messages.
> 
> Hope this helps.

Okay, prior to upgrading to .13 any gotcha's to be aware of?
will the current config's and setup work out of the box?

Thanks for the rapid reply
jerry