Bogofilter learning

Thomas Anderson tanderso at oac-design.com
Fri Aug 4 09:49:28 CEST 2006


You should make sure your users forward as an attachment.  That will
preserve the headers.  See below for a program to pull out the attached
email:

http://www.orderamidchaos.com/bogofilter/bfproxy

Tom


On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 09:21 +0200, Lasse Brandt wrote:
> Hey list,
> 
> I'm a new user of bogofilter and trying to make this setup:
> 
> Mail -> Scanner Server -> Mail Server
> 
> The scanner server is currently working fine, recieving the mail,
> parsing it through bogofilter (adding a header with the result) and
> delivering it to the mail server.
> 
> What I would like to do is train bogofilter by telling the end users
> to forward all their spam and ham messages to two different e-mail
> accounts on the scanner server. This is also working.
> 
> But, what about the email headers - they are ofcourse lost when users
> forward their message.
> At the moment, I'm just "dropping" the headers of the forwardet email,
> before it is parsed to bogofilter for training. Is that a
> (non)recommendable approach?
> 
> It seems to be working, but with only 50 spam and ham messages
> injected so far, it is way too early to make a conclusion.




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