Non-zero exitcode (1) from "/usr/local/bin/bogofilter"

[John G Walker]

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:03:13 -0400 David Relson
<relson at osagesoftware.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 08:49:07 -0400
> dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote:
> 
> ....[snip]...
> 
> > THanks David,
> > What switches are recommended to feed bogofilter messages that are  
> > ham?  I started using the -Snv to remove messages from bogofilter
> > that had been classified wrong.  When I started thinking about the
> > classify as innocent I thought it would work.  Wrong.  Instead of
> > using bogofilter -l, if I use -u all messages coming in will get fed
> > into the wordlist?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > ddh
> 
> Hi Dwayne,
> 
> Looks like time for you to review bogofilter's docs!  At the very
> least, run "bogofilter -h" and read the "classification options" and
> "registration options" sections.
> 
> "-l" and "-u" are unrelated to one another.
> 
> "-n -B [messages or directories]" for registering new ham
> "-s -B [messages or directories]" for registering new spam
> 
> "-Ns" for correcting false negatives (spam improperly registered as
> ham)
> 
> "-Sn" for correcting false positives (ham improperly registered as
> spam)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David

And note where David has written "improperly registered". 

It seems to me that you might be applying -Sn to messages that were
never registered as spam, thereby unregistering more messages than you
have registered! 

This would explain why you have nothing scored as spam in your wordlist,

-- 
 All the best,
 John