email containing token with high spamcount only gets an unsure

David Relson relson at osagesoftware.com
Mon Jul 24 13:14:10 CEST 2006


On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:01:00 +0200
Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen wrote:

> David Relson wrote:
> 
> > There is an area of weakness that I have noticed.  Mailing lists are
> > generally a source of ham and bogofilter learns that.  Some mailing
> > lists get spammed (once in a while).  When that happens, bogofilter
> > seens lots of hammish token (from the message headers) and lots of
> > spammish tokens (from the message body).  This can result in an
> > unsure.  This situation is a difficult one.  I've managed to deal
> > with it by creating an ignore wordlist with header tokens from the
> > mailing list -- which forces bogofilter to look at the message
> > body.  Perhaps doing this would help you.
> 
> Hi.
> 
> This sounds like a very good idea. Do you have any more details on how
> you went about to do this?


Read the FAQ.  In particular "Can I tell bogofilter to ignore certain
tokens?" has relevant information.

David



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