Training problems on version 1.0.2

Nigel Henry cave.dnb at tiscali.fr
Mon Jul 24 19:03:18 CEST 2006


On Monday 24 July 2006 18:45, Nigel Henry wrote:
> 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.

btw. I'm running it on FC2. db4, and db4-devel, are installed, and I installed 
gsl-1.4-2.1, and gsl-devel.



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