Using bogofilter with local Maildirs (and offlineimap)

[Tom Anderson]

David, that was of course meant to be light-hearted.  But I guess my brand 
of humor is just too understated even for geeks.

Tom


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Relson" <relson at osagesoftware.com>
Cc: <bogofilter at bogofilter.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: Using bogofilter with local Maildirs (and offlineimap)


> On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:00:45 -0400
> Tom Anderson wrote:
>
>> > With these settings, I've never seen a false positive (ham marked as
>> > spam), but I get anywhere from 0.1% to 1% false negatives (spam
>> > marked as unsure).  With my mail load, this means 10-100 spams get
>> > delivered to my inbox each day.
>>
>> That's the problem with false positives... you never see 'em... if
>> only we could figure out a way to see the false positives ;)
>>
>> Tom
>
> Rather then /dev/null spam, postfix & procmail keep it and my MUA
> filters on "X-Bogosity: Spam" and "X-Bogosity: Unsure" and puts such
> messages in special folders where I can deal with them.  All the
> "Unsure" messages are used for training.  The "Spam" is generally
> archived with, at most, a glance.  When I get home from work and find 2
> or 3 hundred spam in the folder, I usually skip the "glance" part.
>
> Anyhow, FP's are available should I ever want to look for them.  It's
> happened once or twice when something unexpectedly shows up as "Unsure"
> and I look at its tokens in the wordlist.
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