Bootstrapping the database in a MUA-embedded scenario

[Charles Hewson]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Mikhail Zabaluev wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've used Bogofilter for a time now, and I love it so much that I've
> written an Evolution plugin for it.
> Now, I have a problem with learning starting from clean user setup.
> Bogofilter needs at least one ham message in the database for the
> algorithm to work properly (at least with the default parameters). The
> problem is, Evolution will only let you report a message as non-spam if
> it has been classified as spam before (the problem is symmetrical for
> spam, but untagged spam messages aren't usually in short supply :)).
> I'd like to provide the users with a working setup out of the box,
> without resorting to manual learning procedures involving CLI. The
> solution I came up with is to feed bogofilter a made-up seed message
> once in order to initialize the ham message count. The message has an
> empty body and minimal headers to avoid upsetting the word counts too
> much.
> I'll appreciate any comments to my approach. Maybe I'm missing
> something.
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Hi all,

	Would the following load do what you need:

bogoutil -l .bogofilter/wordlist.db < .MSG_COUNT 00000 00001 20050810

Charles