Train with -Ns and -Sn

[David Relson]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:44:17 +0100
Peter Gutbrod wrote:

> I have 2 mailboxes where I sort in the mails rated as unsure or
> classified wrongly  by bogofilter. I feed the mails in this mailboxes
> periodically to bogofilter with -Ns for spam and -Sn for non-spam
> emails.
> 
> I'm wondering, whether it might lead to a bad database, if I
> reregister unsure mails, that have never been registered before.
> 
> So should I use instead just -s and -n, without unregistering the mail
> first.
> 
> The reason I used -Ns and -Sn is, that I use bogofilter with the -u
> option so far. So any wrongly classified mail needs unregistering. To
> keep things easy, I didn't want to process unsure mails differently
> than wrongly classified spam and no-spam emails.
> 
> Peter

Hi Peter,

Using just "-s" or "-n" would be better.  

If you're using the "-p" option, each message has an "X-Bogosity:
Ham/Spam/Unsure" line.  Thinking of your folders as "should_be_ham" and
"should_be_spam",  you have four types of messages:

  classified as ham,    should be spam:  use switch "-Ns"
  classified as spam,   should be ham:   use switch "-Sn"
  classified as unsure, should be ham:   use switch "-n"
  classified as unsure, should be spam:  use switch "-s"

A script can be written to register each message properly (taking
into account which folder it's in and its X-Bogosity line).

HTH,

David

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