explaining Bogofilter simply

[David Relson]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:47:35 -0600
Bill McClain wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 17:37:47 +0000
> Richard Kimber <rkimber at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 
> > I thought of that, but wasn't sure how to construct an email that
> > didn't have the bits of headers that refer to my system, and would
> > presumably score as ham.
> 
> For these purposes, I think just scoring the message line itself would
> be good enough:
> 
>  echo "...message line..." | bogofilter -H -v
> 
> -Bill

Well done Bill!

That's how to get the score of a message line.  The "-H", for
suppressing header tags, is crucial in this case.

If one also wants the scores of the individual tokens, use "-vvv"
instead of "-v".