Training problems on version 1.0.2

Nigel Henry cave.dnb at tiscali.fr
Mon Jul 24 18:45:54 CEST 2006


This is my first experience with spam filtering, so freely admit that I don't 
know what I'm doing.

Someone on the the KDE list, as I'd asked about Kmail and spam filtering, 
suggested Bogofilter, so here I am. 

I have installed Bogofilter from the 1.0.2 tarball, which has installed it 
in /usr/local/bin .  It's also put the example config file in /etc , and I 
havn't messed with that, as a guy who wrote a tutorial said he'd left the 
config file as it was, and had Bogofilter working ok. I created a 
directory, .bogofilter in my home directory, and 2 new directories in Kmail, 
named, Spam, and NotSpam, and have been adding emails to both of them.

Now I'm trying to train it. As user, I'm cd'ing to Mail/Spam/cur, and then 
running, bogofilter -sv, which creates a 8KB wordlist.db in .bogofilter.  On 
the Konsole nothing happens, no verbose output, no return to the command 
prompt after about 30mins, and I have to quit the shell from the session 
menu. Running the following, shows whats in .bogofilter/wordlist.db.

[djmons at localhost djmons]$ bogoutil -w ~/.bogofilter .MSG_COUNT
                                 spam   good
.MSG_COUNT                          0      0
[djmons at localhost djmons]$ bogoutil -d ~/.bogofilter/wordlist.db
.MSG_COUNT 0 0 20060724
[djmons at localhost djmons]$

Kmails email directories are in the maildir format.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Nigel.



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