subject rewrites

[David Relson]

Hello Brenda,

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:03:51 +1200
Brenda O'Hagan wrote:

> i found a  mention in the release notes for 0.15 about "subject
> tagging". does this mean mean the same as subject rewriting in spam
> assassin?

No.  Bogofilter and SpamAssassin are separate and distinct.  Though SA
is much older than BF, BF was written without reference to how SA does
what it does.  BF's header tagging involves prefixing tokens from a
message's header lines.  This is described briefly in the 0.15 release
notes.


> i can't find any mentions of this subject tagging in either the man
> page, or the FAQ (i'm running 0.17).

The man page tends to be at the brief/concise end of the scale rather
than at the verbose/voluminous end.

> or am i just really confused?

You just need more practice reading between the lines :-)  The easiest
way to see how a message is parsed is to run "bogolexer -p < message" or
"bogolexer -p -x l -vv < message".

HTH,

David