Doing this right?

[David Relson]

On Thu, 5 May 2005 13:12:04 -0400
Tom Anderson wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "JoeHill" <joehill at sympatico.ca>
> >> Perhaps this person uses a mail client, proxy, etc., which inserts 
> >> X-headers
> >> commonly found in your spams.  Use:
> >>
> >> bogofilter -vvv < falsepos
> >>
> >> to find out what tokens are contributing to its spamicity.
> >
> > I looked at that, quite a lot of these:
> >
> > "head:MIME-Version"                7120  0.547905  0.911718  0.624626 -
> >
> > "head:Content-Type"                9066  0.775758  0.968561  0.555266 -
> >
> > I've taken a look at other messages, and it seems Bogofilter doesn't like 
> > mail
> > from Outlook Express, which is not at all surprising ;-)
> 
> The solution is to just keep training.  Your ups and downs should quickly 
> level out.  I like to use recursive training... first train with the false 
> positive, then check to see the new score -- if the new score is not in the 
> ham range, train again.  Repeat.
> 
> I do recursive training (for both ham and spam) automatically with this 
> program:
> http://orderamidchaos.com/bogofilter/bfproxy
> 
> I also clean up my headers with this one:
> http://orderamidchaos.com/bogofilter/spamitarium
> 
> Tom

Joe,

FYI, the meaning of the columns for '-vvv' output is in bogofilter's FAQ.

David