X-Bogosity header not discarded

[David Relson]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 17:13:55 -0500 (EST)
Chin Huang <cthuang at vex.net> wrote:

> After upgrading to the latest stable release, I noticed the X-Bogosity
> header is no longer discarded from the input.  For example, for the
> previous stable release,
> 
> % echo 'X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.123456,
> version=0.15.13.1' | old/bogofilter -vvv X-Bogosity: No,
> tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.415000, version=0.15.7
>                                      n    pgood     pbad      fw     U
> N_P_Q_S_s_x_md                       0  0.00e+00  0.00e+00  4.15e-01
>                                         1.00e-02  4.15e-01  0.100
> 
> Trying it with the latest stable release,
> 
> % echo 'X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.123456,
> version=0.15.13.1' | new/bogofilter -vvv X-Bogosity: No,
> tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000136, version=0.15.13.1
>                                      n    pgood     pbad      fw     U
> "0.15.13.1"                          3  0.002737  0.000000  0.001379 +
> "head:X-Bogosity"                    3  0.002737  0.000000  0.001379 +
> "head:tests"                         5  0.003650  0.000436  0.107230 +
> "head:bogofilter"                    4  0.002737  0.000436  0.137967 +
> "head:spamicity"                     4  0.002737  0.000436  0.137967 +
> "head:version"                      27  0.011861  0.006098  0.339557 +
> N_P_Q_S_s_x_md                       6  1.00e+00  5.10e-05  1.36e-04
>                                         1.00e-02  4.15e-01  0.100

Hi Chin,

Interesting.  I'll take a look.  It's not something to be very concerned
about.  If you're training with messages after bogofilter has processed
them, the "X-Bogosity: Yes" and "X-Bogosity: No" lines will likely
balance one another and lead to neutral scores.

David