Bogofilter-0.90.0 - New Current Release

[David Relson]

On Tue, 11 May 2004 13:56:37 -0500
Matt Christian wrote:

> David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 11 May 2004 13:52:56 -0400 Matt Garretson wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, thanks for the new release!
> >> 
> >> > * Add .WORDLIST_VERSION meta symbol.
> >> > * Change subnet prefix from url: to ip:
> >> 
> >> However after building 0.90 from source, installing, and then
> >> re-creating wordlist.db from scratch (from archived corpii), I
> >> don't see any tokens reflecting the above two changes.  Doing
> >> a "bogoutil -d ./wordlist.db" shows no ip: tags, but lots of
> >> url: tags.  Also, .WORDLIST_VERSION seems to be absent from the
> >> new wordlist.  What have i done wrong?
> >
> > Help is your friend.  "bogoutil -h" lists the "-u" (upgrade) option.
> >
> > Run "bogoutil -u wordlist.db".  That will convert the "url:x.y.z"
> > tokens to "ip:x.y.z" tokens and also add ".WORDLIST_VERSION".
> 
> > P.S.  I should have provided better info.  Sorry.
> 
> FYI on documentation:
> 
> * The bogofilter.cf.example file included in 0.90.0 still references
> the old url: tags, not the new ip: tags.  Snippet:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> #### BLOCK ON SUBNETS
> #
> #	convert IPADDRs into a special token, url:1.2.3.4,
> #	and also return url:1.2.3, url:1.2, and url:1
> #       to allow identifying spammers by ip address / subnets.
> #
> #block_on_subnets=no
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> * The bogoutil manual page is out of date, no mention of -u option.
> 
> * The INSTALL and README mention reading it for upgraders, but there
> was no RELEASE.NOTES file in the 0.90.0 distribution.
> 
> 
> Despite these documentation shortcomings, I think it was important to
> get a new version out the door.  Thanks for the new release!
> 
> - Matt

Hi Matt,

Thanks for letting me know about those oversights.  I'll attend to them.

David