Bogofilter will not catch anything

[David Relson]

On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:31:56 -0500
dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote:

> Quoting Hussam Al-Tayeb <ht990332 at gmail.com>:
> 
> > I installed bogofilter and installed the evolution bogofilter
> > plugin. I moved 140 spam emails to a new folder called spam and did:
> >  bogofilter -s < ~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/spam
> > but bogofilter will not catch not even one spam email.
> > Any idea why?
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Hussam Al-Tayeb. GnuPG Key: F97D3A19
> >
> 
> bogofilter -Nsv < /pathtospambox for spams
> bogofilter -Snv < /pathtohambox for hams.
> You need both to keep filter inline.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dwayne Hottinger
> Network Administrator
> Harrisonburg City Public Schools

Hassam,

Bogofilter's purpose is to categorize emails as spam or ham.  You need
to train it with _both_ ham and spam so that it can learn what _you_
consider spam and what _you_ consider ham.

HTH,

David