A tristate question.

David Relson relson at osagesoftware.com
Sat Mar 19 21:26:04 CET 2005


On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:36:12 +0100
Laurent Darrambide wrote:

> > Look in bogofilter.cf for the TRANSACTIONS section :-)
> 
> My fault. I upgraded bogofilter from 0.93 to 0.94.1, but screwed something as my former
> 0.93 /etc/bogofilter.cf stood in place.

All that was added between 0.93 and 0.94 was the TRANSACTIONS section.

> > > > > 4. I hate the ## stuff in config for selecting options. A more "normal"
> > > > > xxx=yes or xxx=1 style would be more intuitive I suppose.
> > > > 
> > > > I gather you'd rather have the default options enabled (no '#') and
> > > > just use '#' to comment out alternate settings?
> > > 
> > > So I suppose I complety badly understood the option selection then.
> > 
> > So it seems :-<  AFAICT, using '#' and '##' is pretty much standard ...
> > > I'm completly stupid, I can't understand the convention.
>  
> > In an unmodified bogofilter.cf.example file, a single '#' indicates the
> > values that are built into bogofilter's executable.  Those lines aren't
> > truly necessary, but they provide a place for customizing.  Lines with
> > '##' (two of them) show alternate values -- typically to illustrate how
> > the command can be used.  My copy of the file doesn't have any '###'
> > lines.  Evidently that's a Debian modification.  More that 3 hash marks
> > show a comment or heading.  (An abbreviated form of this information is
> > at the beginning of the file).
> 
> My fault again. I indeed know the # thing for a comment, but I
> completely misunderstood the thing, and thought there was a tristate
> convention, depending on the '#' number.
> Perfectly clear now, I will update my settings accordingly.

The tristate thing is just for Spam/Ham/Unsure.

> Very responsive list indeed. A pleasure.

We like to help!

> Thanks you so much for responding.

Ne rien pas.

David

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